Rotating Sandwiches – That's It

Rotating Sandwiches – That's It(rotatingsandwiches.com)

173 points by benwikler 3 years ago | 96 comments

mauvehaus 3 years ago |

I'm not sure if this is going to forestall or foment heated discussion about what is or isn't a sandwich, but it's certainly an attempt to codify what constitutes sandwichness:

https://cuberule.com/

j-kent 3 years ago | |

There’s no such thing as a sandwich (phylogenetically)

tantalor 3 years ago | | |

There's no such thing as phylogeny (sandwichly)

handsclean 3 years ago | | |

Sure there is, you just need to look at the evolution of language, not DNA. The common ancestor is a meal eaten by the Earl of Sandwich in the 1760s, “salt beef between two slices of toasted bread”.

foobarian 3 years ago | |

We would be remiss not to bring up the sandwich alignment chart:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlignmentCharts/comments/83l9jy/san...

bell-cot 3 years ago | | |

Yet even their "Anarchist" (lower right) square has a rectangular item of food, with a starchy, finger-friendly exterior around a less starchy & finger-friendly interior.

Vs. a chart with chocolate-covered cherries, ceiling tiles, and such...

capableweb 3 years ago | | |

It is brought up on the "Cube Rule" page, but the page contains way more detail than so. If you haven't gone through it before, I recommend you do so.

cool_dude85 3 years ago | |

I subscribe to the fringe "four foods theory":

1) Substance - Indivisible, elemental food. Example: Vanilla ice cream, no toppings

2) Pizza - Monobreadular, arranged. Example: Nigiri sushi

3) Sandwich - Multibreadular, arranged. Example: Big Mac

4) Salad - Separable, not arranged. Example: Salad with croutons

JohnFen 3 years ago | | |

What is lasagna? It doesn't seem to easily fit in any of those categories, although it's clearly not a "substance".

sonicrocketman 3 years ago | |

Sandwiches are but one part of the equation! For full context see the taxonomic definition of Sandwich (domain Catino, kingdom Cincta).

https://iifrp.org/rfc/RFC-5.html

(disclaimer, I wrote this spec)

Keegs 3 years ago | |

I’m a big fan of the cube rule except for its salad category. The idea that a frittata and a bowl of tomato soup are equivalent is hard to swallow (pun intended).

dylan604 3 years ago | |

when has any comment posted publicly to the internet forestalled heated discussion?

boringg 3 years ago | |

hot dogs and burritos are sandwiches right?

gen220 3 years ago | | |

All according to cube rule:

Hot dogs are categorically tacos.

Burritos typically begin life as a "calzone", but experience most of their brief lives through the lens of a "soup/salad in a bread bowl".

Sometimes people prefer to fold a burrito into the "sushi" pattern. Depends on your mental image of a burrito.

kzrdude 3 years ago | | |

A burrito is a calzone in the cube rule system, but I'd rather rename that class to burrito.

carlosjobim 3 years ago |

Fun fact: Some of the sandwiches seem to be rotating in the opposite direction. This is due to an optical illusion called the "Silhouette Illusion" [0], first discovered in 2003. If you focus hard on a sandwich and blur your eyes slightly, you can make it change which direction it rotates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer

doctoboggan 3 years ago | |

I am assuming you are joking but I see other people responding as if you aren't.

This isn't true as the spinning dancer illusion only works on silhouettes and not full color images.

oceanplexian 3 years ago | | |

I squinted at the sandwiches trying to reverse their direction like an idiot. Guessing I’m not the only one.

JKCalhoun 3 years ago | | |

The dancer illusion is as though you are observing the dancer from a long distance away through a telescope of some sort where things like her hands do not appear to vary in relative size as she turns and they become nearer/farther from us.

StrictDabbler 3 years ago | | |

It also works on translucent objects and in a different form on the mask illusion, where a rotation depends on whether you believe the mask is bent away from or toward you.

Basically anytime that depth information is obscured.

jon889 3 years ago | |

I can't see how this is correct. The spinning dancer works because there's no details on it.

evan_ 3 years ago | | |

I was skeptical as well but after looking into it further I can confirm that it's actually true. The brain is amazing!

vanadium 3 years ago |

Need more old-school absurdity like this on the web these days.

samstave 3 years ago | |

They need a BLINK tag version so as it rotates, it also blinks - or throws confetti or sparks.

geepytee 3 years ago |

Imagine opening Uber Eats and looking for a restaurant to order from. You are scrolling and they all look the same, but suddenly... What is that? That can't be right, this one has spinning pics of all the food they serve? HECK YEAH I'm ordering from that one

floatinglotus 3 years ago |

Why are VCs not backing more projects like this?

Buttons840 3 years ago | |

That's a company blog I would actually follow. I want to read a 4 page post about series-c funding to capture even more rotating sandwiches. I want to read about their hiring practices and how they use scrum to organize their sandwich projects.

TuringNYC 3 years ago | | |

You could start here: https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-...

qlm 3 years ago |

Twitter account of the admin: https://twitter.com/notabigjerk

braingenious 3 years ago |

To lay this to rest:

Should a tear occur such that the bread around a hot dog separates into two discrete pieces, it is then a sandwich. Therefore a hot dog is a potential sandwich in the same way that an egg is a potential chicken.

bell-cot 3 years ago |

Almost like the old Hamster Dance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance ) has been reincarnated...

boringg 3 years ago |

Amazing - why aren't there any burritos in the rotating sandwich list?

Also you should create a bunch of rotating sandwich NFTs - if you went back two years you could a millionaire off those NFT sales.

WesolyKubeczek 3 years ago |

The spirit of zombo.com is alive!

lagrange77 3 years ago |

Sandwiches 10 and 25 rotate in the wrong direction, please fix ASAP!!

afandian 3 years ago | |

They might be from countries south of the equator? That would explain them spinning the other way.

ElfinTrousers 3 years ago | |

That's a feature, those sandwiches are made of antimatter.

Buttons840 3 years ago | |

Make a Jira ticket

teddyh 3 years ago |

28 rotating to the right, and three to the left.

a_shovel 3 years ago |

Two word title, creator's contact info, content, end. The platonic ideal of a single-purpose website. It's beautiful.

The backend isn't quite so clean. It has a bunch of superfluous Wordpress template cruft, even some trackers my ad blocker had to catch. Still, I like it overall.

TaurenHunter 3 years ago |

Are these sandwiches AI generated?

dylan604 3 years ago | |

thissandwhichdoesnotexist

braingenious 3 years ago | |

No.

gptgpp 3 years ago | | |

Oh... then was chatGPT used to come up with the idea?

I just don't understand why it would be on the front page without AI??

praash 3 years ago |

This is a good website to demonstrate the Pulfrich effect! Squint your right eye or cover it with sunglasses, and watch the magical sandwiches pop out of your screen.

I really wish online stores utilized this to convey dimensions and material texture better.

sphars 3 years ago |

Thank you, now I'm hungry

makeworld 3 years ago |

Even more rotating food is available at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/rotatingfood

barbazoo 3 years ago |

I hope there'll be a collab with https://www.instagram.com/sandwichesofhistory

benwikler 3 years ago |

In case you think NeRFs don't have any useful applications

dylan604 3 years ago |

I like how some are cleanly cut in half, while some have been half eaten. Just to keep it from feeling like it's repetitive.

naillo 3 years ago |

Are these done with NeRFs? Feels like they are but could just be lots of photos around the objects. Curious if anyone knows.

medler 3 years ago | |

Not sure but I think they’re just videos of the sandwiches rotating. Here’s a pic of the lightbox with the rotating platform: https://nitter.net/NotABigJerk/status/1628493044113711105

m3kw9 3 years ago |

This gonna pivot into sandwich social network

samstave 3 years ago | |

I am the hotdog to your pastrami.

pfoof 3 years ago |

That's why I pay for the internet

djha-skin 3 years ago |

Reminds me of

  * badgerbadgerbadger

  * bad.horse

  * ascii star wars

Also makes me hungry.

_nalply 3 years ago |

These are all gifs. No weird technical trickery at all. But it's well presented.

nurettin 3 years ago |

I thought it was going to be some animation: spin css, but it is just a bunch of gifs.

mikeflynn 3 years ago |

This website needs a Little Luca Ultimate club sandwich almost as much as I do.

ankaAr 3 years ago |

Sir, I come to make a complain about no milanesa sandwich.

I hope this issue will be fixed soon.

NotABigJerk 3 years ago | |

Torta Milanesa here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10d92PBihj-yx1D8QPo-Fcp1UrzQ...

Folder with all my sandwich gifs here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10d92PBihj-yx1D8QPo-Fcp1UrzQ...

Thanks to everyone who said nice things about my sandwiches!

medler 3 years ago | | |

Lauren, as a long-time follower I was excited to see this hit the front page of Hacker News. Since you’re here could you share some technical details about how this works? What kind of hardware/software stack are you using? Are you using NeRFs(?)?

mrWiz 3 years ago | | |

Thank you for sharing your sandwiches! Both of the links in your posts are for the milanesa, though

lgdw 3 years ago | |

fifth one down.

thunky 3 years ago |

It would be nice if restaurants used this technique for their menus.

SeanAnderson 3 years ago |

...but there's a rotating hotdog. That's not a sandwich.

cyrialize 3 years ago | |

I agree. People always talk about technicalities, ingredients, structure, etc. in this argument.

For me, the main reason why a hotdog isn't a sandwich is that you can't use the two interchangeably. I would never go up to a hotdog stand and ask for a sandwich.

elpocko 3 years ago | | |

Right. That's why hotdogs are not even food, or organic matter. I would never go up to a hotdog stand and ask for organic matter.

blowski 3 years ago | |

For the uninitiated https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b83d9c655ee2954e756dcd...

jaywalk 3 years ago | |

Please keep political flamethrowing off HN.

(Although I agree)

electrondood 3 years ago | | |

A sandwich is not an ontological category and should be eradicated.

justaj 3 years ago |

Is anyone elses CPU almost melting when this page is opened?

lxm 3 years ago |

What's the timeline for iOS/Android native apps?

ElfinTrousers 3 years ago | |

I'm going to need Enterprise-Grade Sandwich Rotation Systems.

wsdookadr 3 years ago |

a billion times better than facebook/instagram/pinterest. exactly how it should be.

insane_dreamer 3 years ago |

What's a hot dog doing there?

dweinus 3 years ago | |

Bringing glorious richness to the universe of sandwich possibility

silksowed 3 years ago |

it might be pastrami on rye time!

mdrzn 3 years ago |

Is there an API for this?

zwieback 3 years ago |

Can we have a chip butty?

papa2034 3 years ago |

Thanks now I’m hungry.

chandan_maruthi 3 years ago |

U all just hungry?

tkanarsky 3 years ago |

are these NeRF captures? looks pretty good!

haunter 3 years ago |

Hot dog and gyros. Yeah, well about those...

petodo 3 years ago |

no open sandwich? meh, this seems very US centric