Tour of My Roof (e.elliott.computer)

Kept trying to go up the stairs to the next level

Reminds me of early 2000s. What city is it?

From the creator of https://special.fish/ and other fine downtempo htmls.

I kept trying to turn into the house at the beginning as it forced me towards the window. It’s a struggle that can only be matched by being sucked into a black hole, or how flight attendants feel when the emergency exit door breaks open mid-flight and they struggle to flee the merciless tug of the portal.

Reminds me of Blade Runner.

A small scale version of Myst. (Is there something like a Myst generator? A personalized version of google map?)

Top left of https://e.elliott.computer/big-tree-map/8/up.html is a 404, by the way.

Looks cool. Turning it into a game?

Cool, you could make it faster by preloading images.

The domain name made me click on it but it has nothing to do with Elliott computers, who were based in Borehamwood, England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Brothers_(computer_com...

Their best known computer was the Elliott 803: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_803

Tony Hoare used to work at Elliott and wrote an Algol 60 compiler for the 803.

Takes forever to load images when I click on one.

I appreciate this as a fellow roof lover. There is something intriguing about experiencing the world from a physical perspective that you aren't "supposed" to view it from.

very slow site :(

I like how fast going back to a location I've already been to is because my browser cached the image. Which makes me wonder how much this could be optimized: Can you load adjacent images hidden from view with a lower priority than the main image or something like that so that all navigation is instantaneous?

This is cool! Here’s a blog about a similar project I have been working on which uses panoramic images taken very close together to let you move around my parents’ basement: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=69545.msg141953...

Zooming in and hitting the back button a handful of times is peak Blade Runner.

Well, maybe i'm missing something, but...what does make it so special to appear on HN front page?