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inception explained as a 4 nested javascript closures
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/* | |
* Fabrizio Calderan, twitter @fcalderan, 2010.11.02 | |
* I had an idea: could Inception movie be explained by a few javascript closures | |
* and variable resolution scope (just for fun)? | |
* | |
* Activate javascript console =) | |
*/ | |
<script> | |
console.group("inception movie"); | |
var inception = (function() { | |
/* on flight: arianna's dream */ | |
var timerate = 1; | |
var team = ["Yusuf", "Arthur", "Eames", "Saito", "Arianna", "Dominic", "Mr.Fischer"]; | |
console.log("Real world", team); | |
console.log("Time Rate is ", timerate); | |
console.log("1 second is %d second (what else?)", 1/timerate); | |
(function(timerate) { | |
/* Yusuf escape */ | |
console.group("1th level: arianna's dream"); | |
var kick = "fall in the water"; | |
console.log("1th level team", team); | |
console.log("Time Rate is ", timerate); | |
console.log("1 second is %d second, about %d minutes", 1/timerate, 1/timerate/60); | |
(function(team, timerate) { | |
/* Arthur hotel escape */ | |
console.group("2nd level: Hotel escape"); | |
var kick = "elevator wreck"; | |
console.log("2nd level team", team); | |
console.log("Time Rate is ", timerate); | |
console.log("1 second is %d second, about %d minutes", 1/timerate, 1/timerate/60); | |
(function(team, timerate) { | |
/* Mountain */ | |
console.group("3rd level: Mountain's fortress"); | |
var kick = "fortress destruction"; | |
console.log("3rd level team", team); | |
console.log("Time Rate is ", timerate); | |
console.log("1 second is %d second, about %d minutes", 1/timerate, 1/timerate/60); | |
(function(team, timerate) { | |
console.group("4th level: the Limbo"); | |
/* Limbo */ | |
var kick = "skyscrapes collapse"; | |
console.log("Limbo team", team); | |
console.log("Time Rate is ", timerate); | |
console.log("1 second is %d second, about %d minutes or %d hours", | |
1/timerate, 1/timerate/60, 1/timerate/3600); | |
console.groupEnd(); | |
return kick; | |
})(team.slice(2), timerate/12); /* 4th level */ | |
console.groupEnd(); | |
return kick; | |
})(team.slice(1), timerate/12); /* 3nd level */ | |
console.groupEnd(); | |
return kick; | |
})(team.slice(1), timerate/12); /* 2nd level */ | |
console.groupEnd(); | |
return kick; | |
})(timerate/12); /* 1st level */ | |
})(); | |
/* now you think you have come back into reality... | |
* but what if you were into another closure? =) | |
* who knows? | |
*/ | |
</script> | |
/* | |
* What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. | |
* Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost | |
* impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; | |
* right in there somewhere. | |
*/ |
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