{"id":3702,"date":"2025-03-10T22:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T02:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:18:29","slug":"making-a-follow-up-to-subpixel-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/10\/making-a-follow-up-to-subpixel-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a follow-up to Subpixel Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Subpixel Snake on Different Screens\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1IrbVvB_lHM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought it might be fun to make a follow-up to the Subpixel Snake video I did a few weeks ago. One regret I had after I posted my original video was that I didn&#8217;t show more of the game itself, and I only showed it on my iMac screen. So for this video I decided to show what it looks like on a variety of devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a ton of work, and I actually recorded more screens than what I showed in the video. However, most devices seem to use either an RGB stripe or BGR stripe subpixel geometry, and I was a little worried it could get boring if I showed a 20 screens and most of them were those 2, so I whittled things down to what I thought were the most interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really wanted something cool to end with (even though most people don&#8217;t make it to the end of a video), and I wound up hearing about this computer called the OLPC XO that had a unique subpixel layout. It&#8217;s screen had 2 modes: a monochrome mode for use in sunlight (similar to the Game Boy), and a backlit\/color mode for use in darkness. When in color mode, each pixel would become either a red, green or blue subpixel along a diagonal line.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing even had a really <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/4\/16\/17233946\/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now\">cool story<\/a>. It was supposed to be this $100 laptop that was going to change the world &#8211; children in developing countries would get access to a computer and the internet with one of these devices. They&#8217;d be able to learn about open source and linux and have access to the same information as we do in the developed world. There were even plans to add a hand crank as a way to give the machine power. Sadly though, the initiative failed, though they gave it a good shot and made a few hundred thousand of these devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, it just sounded really cool device and the perfect way to end the video, so I picked one up on eBay for $125. Initially was going to sell it afterwards, but it&#8217;s actually a lot of fun. The only downside is that it looks like you can only enter your name in once when setting up the computer, and because of the wonky keyboard I typed &#8220;Pzt&#8221; instead of &#8220;Pat&#8221; ????.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/olpc-xo-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/olpc-xo-scaled-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/olpc-xo-scaled-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/olpc-xo-scaled-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/olpc-xo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/olpc-xo-scaled-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/olpc-xo-scaled-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, if you have some time check out the video, and if you enjoy it please like \/ comment \/ share it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it might be fun to make a follow-up to the Subpixel Snake video I did a few weeks ago. One regret I had after I posted my original video was that I didn&#8217;t show more of the game itself, and I only showed it on my iMac screen. So for this video I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/10\/making-a-follow-up-to-subpixel-snake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making a follow-up to Subpixel Snake<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3706,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}