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by Mithrandir 5020 days ago
Here's a torrent of all the images: https://ubuntuone.com/4VxOo5cnInZWQUEplIdb2c
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Edit: I retract this comment. Having written my own script to fetch everything within the boundaries I suggested, I found that it didn't get any that weren't already in the torrent.

Going by the other comments, I suspect this is missing some. vladoh claims there's even more stuff under the tunnels. Meanwhile, mayanksinghal points out the size of the array holding everything -- it appears north goes up to 14, and south goes down to 25; however, the images in this torrent go only as high as north 11 and south 25. (Seems everyone agrees that the east and west boundaries are 48 and 33.)

Randall still draws with pencil and paper, and draws "really big"; I really want to know how much paper area he used for this one :O
I was having trouble downloading the torrent, so I wrote a little script to get it for me:

https://gist.github.com/3748257

Warning: 6mb worth of files.

Edit: Github repo with all the images and the script, so that people don't need to hammer the xkcd server:

https://github.com/danielribeiro/xkcd_grab

And here is how you get a web page you can open to view the whole thing in a one sitting:

  perl -e'print "<style>img{width:2048px;height:2048px}</style><pre>"; print /X$/ ? "\n" : "<img src=$_.png>" for @ARGV' {{13..1}n,{1..19}s}{{33..1}w,{1..48}e,X} > index.html
Warning: gigantic page, may crash your browser. (Not as bad as it might seem, since many tiles are missing.)
And folks can hammer github's servers instead by viewing the commit https://github.com/danielribeiro/xkcd_grab/commit/40f58f4d1a...
Thanks for sharing! I was just going to do that myself, glad that now I don’t have to.