I've been watching Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, and I've even been personally affected by it (negatively), so I wanted a way to vent using open-source software and some very basic art skills. I woke up yesterday with an idea in mind for a MAD Fold-In[1].<p>A MAD Fold-In is a piece of artwork on the inside-back cover of each issue of "MAD Magazine". The main image can be folded to reveal a hidden, secondary image.<p>I wanted to share my interactive picture with others, but printing a fold-in and mailing it to friends with instructions seemed really hard, so I searched for a digital way to do it.<p>I found a blog post[2] from Thomas Park where he already did 100% of the work necessary to make a MAD Fold-In using nothing but CSS and HTML and a normal PNG image.<p>Using Inkscape and some Creative Commons images, I drafted a rough piece of artwork and tweaked it until the CSS folded it nicely.<p>I wouldn't normally share here, but I think other HN readers may get some utility from seeing and trying out a purely CSS implementation of a MAD Fold-In, even if I didn't write the CSS myself. I'm hoping to start a trend where others make their own fold-ins.<p>Moreover, Elon Musk picked today of all days to rebrand the Twitter logo as a unicode "X" character (𝕏). So, the Twitter bird really _did_ die today, as happened in my MAD fold-in, making my post somewhat topical and weirdly apropos.<p>If this post is too off-topic, please feel free to take it down. If it stays up, please let me know what you think. In the event my server goes down, I made a WayBack Machine archive of the site [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in</a><p>[2] <a href="https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effect-in-css/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effec...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230724221700/https://brendenhyde.com/foldin/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20230724221700/https://brendenhy...</a>
This is really good, thanks for posting. Actually a very sincere thanks for posting this was very good and a creative breath of fresh air on the internet. The fold ins were always my favorite part of MAD and haven't seen one in such a long long time.
Why is the OP is such a. Light gray as to be high-unreadable?<p>I really wish HN would stop doing that in ALL cases. It’s a massive accessibility fail.
Wow, when the animation began I got a flood of nostalgia chemicals in my brain.<p>I was reminded of childhood, a particular smell, a particular moment. Neato.<p>Thank you!