easy (like sunday morning)
posted by max on April 05, 2007 at 02:17:47 PM
So I updated the TODO file, and figured as a fun little tidbit I'd finish something I'd been working on in my spare time.
The truly random YTMND Creator (almost assuredly nsfw).
Check inside for more info.
What this magical little page does is take 4 random sites, and grabs different info from each, image, sound, text, placement and background information and then combines them to make an entirely new YTMND.
With sound and image, this makes 185,938,500,298 possible combinations.
Throw text into the mix and it turns into roughly 5,555,470,511,903,644 possible combinations.
The most amazing thing I noticed when I first made it was that half of the stuff I ended up seeing was better than most users' "serious attempts" at making a YTMND.
Anyway, I made it so you can click the drop-down and get the origins of each asset as well as the ability to directly link to site combinations that you like.
Have fun with that.
The truly random YTMND Creator (almost assuredly nsfw).
Check inside for more info.
What this magical little page does is take 4 random sites, and grabs different info from each, image, sound, text, placement and background information and then combines them to make an entirely new YTMND.
With sound and image, this makes 185,938,500,298 possible combinations.
Throw text into the mix and it turns into roughly 5,555,470,511,903,644 possible combinations.
The most amazing thing I noticed when I first made it was that half of the stuff I ended up seeing was better than most users' "serious attempts" at making a YTMND.
Anyway, I made it so you can click the drop-down and get the origins of each asset as well as the ability to directly link to site combinations that you like.
Have fun with that.
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And what are the chances that two people will stumble upond the same one? I could maybe see it working if it was simply stored in a table every time a vote is made on a mashup that hasn't been voted on with the three source IDs used, rather than allocating the whole zillion combinations. And then recently voted on ones and top ones would appear in a list for users to browse. But it'd be a bit of a clunky feature.
To rephrase, the database would simply store the three sites used in a table once somebody votes on one, (or maybe just flags it as a particularly funny combination so the database doesn't get clogged with entries). And then there would be a list of combinations that have been stored in such a fashion to browse.
now what do we do? maybe now people will jus use the randomizer to make ytmnds, or spend all their time lookin at the randomizer. . . will re-appropriated randomized ytmnds replace people's actual attempts? will they just repost random ones on the front page? does that make the ytmnd's any better or worse? does it matter? can a randomized one make it to the hall of fame? how much does authorship matter? should it at all?