Plants from URLs

[ToSeek]

Enter a URL here (http://www.organichtml.com/) and see what sort of plant you grow.

Entering http://www.comcast.net (my home ISP), and you get an insect along with the planet!

bautforum.com is very colorful, but then so is godlikeproductions.com.

[ToSeek]

washingtonpost.com yields two insects.

[Moose]

Tsk, you broke the server, ToSeek. :naughty:

[Swift]

By what set of rules does it make a particular plant; as far as I can tell it is a random picture?

[ToSeek]

It's definitely consistent: the same URL yields the same plant, so it's not random. Someone elsewhere claims that the bugs represent animations on the website. So I daresay there's some sort of logic, just not sure what it is. Any code-breakers on the forum? ;)

[NEOWatcher]

It's definitely consistent: the same URL yields the same plant, so it's not random. Someone elsewhere claims that the bugs represent animations on the website. So I daresay there's some sort of logic, just not sure what it is. Any code-breakers on the forum? ;)
Here's some guesses... I've been following some patterns, and from what I can see the base leaves might be internal links, while the larger branch segments refer to off-site links. The fruit might be picture links The colors are also represented. One good example is
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
(lots of colored internal links)
while http://www.badastronomy.com/info/links.html has lots of external (but not colorful ones)
and of course http://www.irs.gov/ in its red/white and blue.

[Candy]

My blog is small with no color. :(

[sarongsong]

Hmmh---it doesn't seem to accept invalid addresses, so it must use something(s) from the URL---size and age, for instance---coasttocoastam.com adds a bonus flying insect (bee?) to the left-leaning blue and green stalk with blue fruit.
...bautforum.com is very colorful...While badastronomy.com is not...

[mid]

I think it's using the HTTP foreground colour of the page, then digging down internal links to make branches.

[Nicolas]

I see the "egg" opening, but no plant...

[Candy]

I see the "egg" opening, but no plant...
What is the nature of your URL?

[NEOWatcher]

What is the nature of your URL?
redirection pages don't sprout.

[Candy]

redirection pages don't sprout.
Oh, I get you.

I added the word sex into my blog. I believe it grew a little. ;)

Do you think certain words add more colors, growth, and a bug?

[ToSeek]

Someone has suggested that a bug indicates multimedia content.

[Candy]

Someone has suggested that a bug indicates multimedia content.
So if I let the ads in on my blog, which I will be paid for, I get a bug?

[Captain Kidd]

Ugh, my museum's webiste (www.tvrail.com) makes the plant look wilted or dead.

While another tourist railroad's website (www.strasburgrailroad.com) returns white plants, a couple flying bees, and if you hover over the dark vine, a shaking flower/nuts. (Any idea on that last one?) Bautforum has two movers: blue... nuts? pods? in the back.

NASA.gov is a straight dead-looking stalk... hurm.

[pghnative]

NASA.gov is a straight dead-looking stalk... hurm.and a bug

[pghnative]

Hmmm. www.realclimate.org (http://www.realclimate.org) results in a dead, black looking blob.

Whereas http://www.geocities.com/freedomforfission/ (Glom's site) returns a healthy looking (if somewhat bluish) plant.

[pghnative]

And if you type in http://www.organichtml.com/ itself, you get nothing.

Odd --- I'd have expected some sort of easter egg at minimum.

[Candy]

My bud moves when I move my mouse over it. Could that be a good sign of bigger and better things? :razz:

[ToSeek]

Huge leaves:

http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/mirror/292.html

[phonicboom]

most excellent site spok

smallislandtrader.com is a huge plant, off the screen, thinish and colouful

msn.com laughably small, well i suppose thats "micro"soft

[phonicboom]

best yet

http://news.google.co.uk/

it is definately a represenation of the site structure. actualy quite useful, the flys/bugs could show broken links...

[genebujold]

Mine yielded nothing. I guess I'd better renew my subscription!

[HenrikOlsen]

From what I can see, after using pages from my own site, it looks like it's grown as a representation of the page feched from the URL, the parts I think I've identified is the thin ground leaves which are simple text links, external links green, internal white, dead links are leaves lying on the floor.
The moving bud seems to be input forms, the small wavy leaves perpendicular to the growth images and the white brancy thingie is a representation of the table structure or complexity of the page.