GrassMowingSimulator.com time-lapse

GrassMowingSimulator.com was a web art experiment I created with my friend Will Segerstrom. Visitors to the site could mow a persistent virtual lawn. The grass would then grow back-but at a painfully slow rate (around 24 hours).
This video captures a few months of mowing activity on the site in the form of a time-lapse.

[@geluso]

Love seeing someone figure out they get more grass when they flip the phone horizontally at like 0:47

[@MarinusMakesStuff]

Hahaha, I was thinking exactly the same hahaha :D

[@memetic07]

What, no crop circles?!?!

[@ethanmye-rs]

That's awesome -- care to share the code?

[@alexmiller]

A lot of the code is here: grassmowingsimulator.com/main.js (not the backend code, but that's probably not the interesting part anyway)

[@Biglurcher]

So basically you invented the idea of Reddit.com/r/Place first! I'll just assume they stole the idea from this

[@alexmiller]

Haha, I guess so!