Type a url into the appropriate field and this page shows you what the site would look like as a houseplant. CZ got a picture of his onto his blog. This, I cannot do. CZ, how did you do that?
Dooce.com's plant is gorgeous. Dooce, why is yours so pretty? I seethe with jealousy. Anyone who isn't already reading her blog should be, by the by.
I am intrigued by this site, which offers no explanation (or any other dialogue) whatsoever as to how it arrives at its leafy conclusions. But after inputing any and all url's I could think of, I can tell it incorporates the following factors:
- how long the site has been in operation
- how often it is updated
- site organization
- site appearance
- traffic patterns
These factors seem to influence the size, color, shape, and fruit content of the plant. Sites with a strong color scheme, for example, appear to have those colors incorporated into their plants. Sites with high traffic and frequent updates bear more fruit. The size of the plant seems to be influenced by the size of the site, but not as directly as one might think. I think the plant also shrinks or flourishes based on site activity. And the shape of the plant, while always seeming to grow leftish (why is it doing that?), seems to branch and wind in some relation to the organization of the site.
Sorry, I'm mesmerized. Now I'm trying to decide what varieties of vegetation influenced the conceptualization of this web-breed. I'll stop now.
2 comments:
Wish it hadn't gotten slash-dotted to death! Hopefully it'll be mirrored or restored soon. Getting a screenshot is simple. Just bring up what you want to take a picture of on your desktop, move your cursor out of the way, and hit the "Print Screen" button. Windows will then store a huge bitmap of the current screen in your clipboard, where it can be dumped into your favorite art program. I just cropped out the unnecessary bits of the desktop. There are other fancy screen capture utilities out there, including some that will dump sequentially numbered pics straight to your harddrive instead of requiring you to process them before the clipboard changes. But the built in utility is handy for occasional use.
Oh, that was CZ up there. And here. Forgot to include my name.
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