Here’s the code (animated version totally petra’s idea)

Olia’s post about Alexander Schlegel’s pixel arts utility took me back. In the late ’90s an internet magazine called word.com (“brought to you by the creators of Vibe and aims to be a hip magazine for the 20-something generation” –new on the net, 1995, now a total dot com relic) had a feature called Pixel Time that worked much like Schlegel’s page. They had contests and posted the best results regularly, and hosted an archive of hundreds of mostly stunning past entries by amateurs and professional artists from all over the world. The best surviving reference to it I found on cursory search was this page from 1998, which posted three winning Pixel Time entries as an animated GIF:

*moment of silence for all the great, past internet art that went down the drain with someone’s server and business aspirations in the ’90s*

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Dragan’s student, Alexander Schlegel, made his first web project
http://pixelarts.6x.to/
It became too popular. Check the gallery.