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by newcup 190 days ago
Sadly, seems there is not. But the artist has still the web page up he used for the installation: https://heikkihumberg.com/chess/

He said he used ipads as renderers. And even one grid may have looked different back in the day than that page now, as the font might be different. The SVG just uses system fonts and the chess pieces are just unicode characters.
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albert_e 189 days ago
Cool thanks.

Is there a way to control the speed. When I load a single SVG into browser, it runs through the whole game in a flash. (Edge shows animation; chrome and firefox show static image for me)

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newcup 189 days ago
There are three timeouts defined in the SVG / embedded javascript code, on lines 66-68 (https://github.com/jnykopp/svg-embedded-chess/blob/a24249729...)

You can increase COMP_MOVE_TIMEOUT (which is now 1 millisecond) to, say, 100 milliseconds.

RESET TIMEOUT defines how long the game is paused after game is finished to let the viewer to see the result, and NEW_GAME_START_TIMEOUT defines how long to wait before doing the first move when a new game is started.

The static image may be because of some browser security mechanisms; served as raw from GitHub the SVG is not animated for me either on Firefox, but when I download the SVG and view it from local drive in Firefox, it works. (It did work when served from GitHub at some point in history, though.)

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albert_e 189 days ago
Thanks for the details!

Is embedding intelligent logic inside of SVGs for animation a common thing -- feels very novel to me. Kudos for the idea and execution!

I am wondering if it is possible to push it even further and bring more and more creative logic -- say to create some unique patterns / designs etc that render differently each time. Say a swirling ripples animation that keeps changing over time but never feels like it is "pre-recorded".

Also, can animated SVGs be embedded in powerpoint and the like -- so we get crisp vector animated design elements in a compact portable format?

I do worry that this can also open some possible attacks -- malicious URLs in a dynamically generated QR, for example.

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