Xkcd: Instructions

evolve2k · on April 1, 2022

I’m confused. What is this?

lifthrasiir · on April 1, 2022

It seems a 9-hour-long audio converted from a LOGO program with interleaved comments.

lifthrasiir · on April 2, 2022

Thanks to the community transcription efforts [1], I can now say it is indeed a LOGO program that draws the actual comic [2] featuring Bob Ross with various things drawn in a whiteboard. Comments are identified as various turtle facts.

[1] https://github.com/theinternetftw/xkcd2601/

[2] My quick attempt that draws about 25% of the image: https://github.com/theinternetftw/xkcd2601/issues/4

eesmith · on April 2, 2022

Relevant commentary from the "explain xkcd" at https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2601:_Instruction...

evolve2k · on April 2, 2022

Insights from the link:

> It appears to be coding instructions, probably to draw a turtle, such as the image hidden on the page. This has not been confirmed. The main object on the picture is a turtle. The turtle is a key concept in LOGO, a programming language especially designed to teach programming to children in an easy way.

And a link to a GitHub user who has transcribed the first 60 minutes of the audio into logo (pen up, pen down etc) and has drawn this image so far.

https://github.com/theinternetftw/xkcd2601#first-60-minutes-...

eesmith · on April 3, 2022

The transcription is done! https://github.com/theinternetftw/xkcd2601