[Jords]

[Doogle]

Everyone was meant to be doing their coursework research in chemistry today, but instead everyone was on this

[Ninastar]

i finished that quest, im so amazing

[Omah]

60th anniversary of first book celebrated with giant robot Google Doodle

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...le-Doodle.html

The 60th anniversary of the first book published by Stanislaw Lem, the Polish science fiction author, has been marked with one of the most sophisticated and impressive Google doodles to date.

The animated feature shows a pensive character with a striking resemblance to the Solaris author who, after some pondering, meets a giant robot.

Google users can then move their mouse cursor to interact with the robot, which has a chest that appears to contain an unreliable calculator.

The striking graphic, however, does not click through to a search page like the majority of previous doodles but instead plays out the interaction with the giant robot instead.

The elaborate and lengthy animation sequence ends with a message that the art was inspired by Daniel Mroz's illustrations for The Cyberiad, a series of short stories by the author, who died in 2006 aged 84.

Did the journalist get past Level 1 ?

Stanislaw Lem, who died in Kraków after suffering from heart disease, produced a string of short stories, poems and essays throughout the 1940s and 1950s.

His first major piece of work, Hospital of the Transfiguration, was published in 1955 in the wake of ideological censorship being lifted following the death of Joseph Stalin.

The Cyberiad, published in 1965, was another key work but it is Solaris that the author is best known for.

First published in 1961, it was made into a film in 1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian director before it was remade by Hollywood director Steven Soderbergh in 2002, with George Clooney the lead star.

More than 27 million copies of the Polish writer’s work are thought to have been sold around the world and it has been translated into about 41 different languages.

I'd never heard of the author, but I've tried the Russian Solaris several times and never really liked it - I NEVER watch Clooney films.


The interactive animation, as an homage, however, is excellent .....

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

i finished that quest, im so amazing

Did you get to Level 7 ?

[Callum]

That was fun