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February 05, 2005

OrganicHTML is a very cool flash site that takes a URL and spits out a cool flash generated plant. I can’t figure out what it is grabbing to form the plant but it seems to be some combination of files and directory structure I think. Any other insights would be appreciated as I can find no information written about how it works.

posted by STHayden at 04:29AM UTC [trackback] (15 comments total)

It makes inverse plants. The Fark plant is rad, but the Homestar one sucks.

Inverse, dude.

posted by Mr. Knickerbocker at 04:59AM UTC on February 05, 2005

I don't know what it's doing, but I think I like it.

From the speed of the response, I suspected maybe it was totally bullshitting, but it grabs colors from tag attributes. The plants match the color of the pages they represent.

posted by hutta at 06:41AM UTC on February 05, 2005

just talked to the guy who made it and he said it parses things like color, text, images, links, flash, and, primarily, table structure.

posted by STHayden at 07:30AM UTC on February 05, 2005

Monkeyfilter: I don't know what it's doing, but I think I like it.

posted by Abiezer_Coppe at 11:57AM UTC on February 05, 2005

I've noticed some parts of the plant seem clickable, yet nothing happens...defintely strange in its manner...try out archive.org for one bigass plant!

posted by gren at 04:34PM UTC on February 05, 2005

gren, I'll see your archive.org and raise you www.ffshrine.org.

Amazon makes a very colorful plant.

Anyone can see why sometimes there's a fly buzzing around?

posted by Alnedra at 05:22PM UTC on February 05, 2005

The best one so far was newgrounds - it had the bug flying around. And mofi is much nicer than mefi - actually metafilter is kind of scary looking!

posted by mygothlaundry at 05:30PM UTC on February 05, 2005

Doesn't work for me...

posted by js at 07:30PM UTC on February 05, 2005

Flash problem?

posted by Alnedra at 09:01PM UTC on February 05, 2005

Hmmm, I thought it was rather blah until I read these comments.

Color--I only have black and white and very small. Must try again with some of the links mentioned.

posted by BlueHorse at 06:22AM UTC on February 06, 2005

AHHHHH!

posted by BlueHorse at 06:35AM UTC on February 06, 2005

I did find one plant that was so big it went off the screen, but I forgot where it was at.

posted by Mr. Knickerbocker at 04:10PM UTC on February 06, 2005

Funnily, almost all my Final Fantasy links went off the screen.

posted by Alnedra at 05:59PM UTC on February 06, 2005

Very neat. Yahoo.com went flew off the page. Staples.com made a pretty page but I think many do.

posted by PY at 01:03AM UTC on February 07, 2005

hmm.... overgrow.com, hightimes.com and cannabisculture.com are all pretty flowers.

Having read the thread I see it as coincidence...

posted by stomper at 04:15PM UTC on February 07, 2005

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