Aren't tΕ«Δ« squiffy?
[I first wrote this in 2022, and good golly it shows!]
Who'd like to chain together 10-15 monitors in a row? Who'd like to display some kind of gorgeous native-bush wilderness panorama splashed across the lot? With birds and other wildlife critters? Swooping and scurrying from one screen to another to another, in a big arc around one's room?
I would. That'd be fab. Right now [2022, remember] I'm working at Secret Secret Club, https://www.secretsecretclub.com/, a Wellington [, New Zealand] coworking space. [It went bust a few months later π’]
I'd been chatting recently with its owner, Scout, about a massive pile of second-hand 1080p monitors he'd just received. I got thinking. Could a chap not plug the whole lot into a single machine, and display snazzy art pieces or suchlike?
A spot of googling produced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heB94f6FHd8. That's Step One sorted, or at least researched. Step Two: what could we display? Scout and I batted ideas back and forth and soon decided it'd be neat to show, for instance, that aforementioned wilderness-bird-swoop panorama.
We googled "animated desktop birds", read the few non-porn results, experienced crippling disappointment ... then I started googling multi-monitor web apps. Turns out you can totally do this. I reckon I could build one myself. The toughest bit would be displaying convincing wildlife. But it's possible. Just picture a flock of tΕ«Δ« fluttering across that entire horizontal monitor row, left to right, metre after metre, in all their HD glory. How rad would that be?
Mind you, I'd have to find yet more time to code this up, alongside my other gazillion fascinating pet projects. Aah. Seriously, why does the world contain so much interestingness? There are only so many hours in the day to pursue this crap.
[2026 update: Ohhyeah, Claude Code! I might now conceivably carve out sufficient time to make this a reality. Maybe. We'll see. Time remains my bottleneck and bugbear. Right now I'm devoting every otherwise-free minute to growing my beloved Sexyverse Advice π]