JavascriptHackathon
By Sylvia Naples and Jason Sigal for NYU ITP's Stupid Hackathon
Everyone wants faster internet, faster data. For the Stupid Hackathon, we decided to slow things down. Significantly. Using our site, SLOWDER: The Slow Image Loader, you can load any image in infinite time.
The image loads with a fractal space-filling curve called the Hilbert curve. Because of it's fractal nature, the percent loaded will get closer and closer to 100; however, to load the image completely would take forever.
The Hilbert curve is written in JavaScript using only some carefully constructed for loops.
Check out the project on github, or try loading you own image into Slowder (Currently only works in Google Chrome).