About Assembly
I saw this video and thought it would be fun to give it a treatment like my multi player. Of course, this one uses random clips instead of sequential ones. I don't think it works as well. The smash cuts happening in random places makes it hard to follow. One possibility would be to only use clips where the watch is the same size in the frame.
On the tech site, everything is done directly with the `video` tag with some JavaScript through in via bitty.
The function I use to set up the grid of images is here Fit Blocks in Container. It takes min/max sizes for the items to use and then finds the best width to fill a space. The Assembly page doesn't update when it's resized. That's something that could be added though.
This was a fun one to work on. Especially since it's the first real thing I've done since starting to migrate my site from alanwsmith.com to here at al9000.com. I'm looking forward to playing around with it even more. Until then, I hope you enjoy the page.
-a