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Re:1M Cell Minesweeper by blueblimp on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:42AM (#24776406)
This is amazing. Too bad you seemingly can't zoom out to view the entire map all at once.
Re:1M Cell Minesweeper by LeifCarrotson on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:12AM (#24777397)
You can get something similar by clicking the location flag with the 8 alphanumeric coordinates in the upper right; that provides a full-screen maximally-zoomed-out map. I agree that it would be cool to be able to zoom out further than currently allowed to see more of the fractal map. The current zoomed-out view is something like Dynmap for Minecraft, I'd also be curious to see the equivalent of something more like Chunkbase that can show millions of cells at a time.

That said, I don't think the concept of "the entire map" makes sense. I expect it's functionally infinite, probably capable of scrolling to 2^32 or 2^64 cells, only allocating new regions in the database as people scroll there and start working. On that scale, you probably wouldn't see any activity at all.

Re:1M Cell Minesweeper by Arcorann on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:56PM (#24783174)
According to the landing page "If every cell on the game field was as small as a speck of dust it would take 17 billion years at the speed of light to travel the width of the board." 17 billion light years is 1.608×10^26 metres, while the size of dust specks varies but is roughly around 10^-6 metres. That's a big field.