Hands Across Second Life!

Here a possible solution to the number of AV's per sim issue, thank you Forseti for this idea - it's found wings!

Particle-Attachment Creating the AV-Chain:

Jillian Callahan is testing and I'll also be testing idea to work around the number of AV's per sim limit:

An object that attaches at an AV, and if a person wearing one clicks on the object worn by another and is standing within 5 meters, it starts a particle stream to that other person's attachment. This makes it possible to have a long string of people linked with particles so the full sim won't be so much of a problem.

According to Jillian's primality tests - 4/5 AV's per sim is all that is needed. It has been tested to a 70 meters distant - so if we have 5 or more people per sim, one every 64 meters, that should be enough.

Each person with the particle-attachments could also have custom head Hands-Across-SL objects that would look cool from above - as well as others in the sim. (Hands pointed to the AV-particle chain along the route, Smiley-Faces with Hands as Ears, hand flags, hands-at-work, hands-doing-jobs, etc. etc. (got your attention now? lol )

(This is also in Msg. #2 above)

Whow, this is so cool! We could also do stuff like spread a message from one end of the grid to another, by shouting, or we could do the wave by jumping...

Hmm..a human telephone line. I wonder if a one sentence message started at one end, would resemble itself at all by the time it got to the other end. And how long would it take to pass it across the world, from person to person.

Fab Idea, count me in on whatever happens

That means you volunteered for Penises (peni??) Across Second Life...

diagonal line across a sim would be less for some sims but more for others a straight line just isnt the best approach (if there was still a sim/avi issue)

if the route matters, it is possible to do a wave formation. the wave would travel threw half a sim and cross into the lower sim, travel cross half a sim, then back to a higher sim. this would reduce each sim's load to half.

but if the final method is using particles this will be unnessessary.

This is the gayest thing I have ever heard of in this game, and I have seen a gay couple in SL.

To quote south park

"Wai- wait a minute, stop. This is gay. - Yeah, this is really gay - This is even gayer then all the men in a pile having sex with each other - Ok everyone, sorry, back to the pile!"

"Back to the pile! Back to the pile! tuk our jerbs"

wonder if the Lindens would be willing to donate a billboard for this event?

I bet if everyone rezzed their genital collections it would only take 3 people per sim!

Twats across SL! Cocks across the world!

I dig it!

Ryen, I'll bet you're too young to remember the Coke TV commercial to which I was originally referring. Yes, it's "cheesy," to paraphrase your original statement... but it's like advertising kitsch, and I still think it would be interesting to see it represented on the in-world map, all feel-good bunk aside.

Edit: Not that there is anything wrong with being young, just that I'm getting to be old-fart-ish. Add standard non-confrontational, non-offensive disclaimer here.

This sounds fun. Considering the weather is usually sunny, no worries about rain ruining things.

I think it sounds super! Thanks for asking!

I can't make it but I'll drop my avie's hands to Merwan before the event

Could it maybe be some sort of continuous/all day event, rather than a one time only thing, so that those of us who don't get home until evening can join in whenever we can, and won't miss the fun? That might be cool-- the big line could start in the morning, it'd be added to during the day as people get home, and by evening it'd look pretty impressive. If you get tired of standing around, just give someone else your place in line. And if it reached a point where a huge number of people were waiting to join the line, the route could be altered to snake through more sims.

Ooh, and can we have face painting, and goofy souvenirs like funny hats and big inflatable hands, and those light sticks that are always sold wherever there's a crowd?

Hey, and howabout fireworks? Fireworks across the grid, as frequently as possible, in as many sims as possible! This is really sounding like a fun event, I'll be there!

Sounds very interesting and would look great from above. I will attened and give high ten.

I like the continuous idea Ilianexsi and people could just look on the SL map and see where there were breaks the Hands-Chain and travel to the broken areas to re-establish the missing links.

Had some inWorld discussions last night - and once we have some Branded Hand objects, then we'll make them available to all Private sim folks who may want to be involved. This is the type of event that can catch fire through out the world.

Count me in!

I have land in Healy that I could put up a billboard or other advertising, also.

Merwan, i must say, this is an excellent idea!

i'll make sure to make note of the date and attempt to be part of this addition to our future history.

another possible idea i was thinking of was to branch off into other sims instead of redirecting the "main chain". if enough people can join "hands" at the same time who knows how much of the grid we could cover!!!

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oh yeah, and maybe you could post some pics of "hands stuff" to gice some others ideas to work from?

Message below is also at Msg. #2 at top of this thread.

RFS - Request for Submissions: The Official Hand to be used for the HANDS ACROSS SL Celebration!

Calling all Sculptures, AV-Artists, ANIMA-Wizards, and all creative souls throughout the land! Hear Yea, Hear Yea!

We need your talents and your helping hands!

Submit your vision of a HAND(S) Attachment that can be worn on our AV which is large enough to be seen clearly from above. One Hand or Hands will be chosen as the Official Logo-Attachment for the Hands Across SL Celebration on June 23, 2005 - the 3rd Birthday of Second Life.

So get busy making your HANDS - lots of designs, types, colors - Thumbs Up, OK signs, High Fives, Hand Grasped In Friendship, Hands of Joy, Full Hands, Zen Hands, Power Hands, Fiery Hands, etc. etc.

Please either drop 'em on me inWorld or send me an IM and I'll come to you and see what ya got.

I have several plots of land, some along roadways, that I would be happy to put billboards on if you have a sign texture and/or notecard Merwan.

Excllent!

Coming soon!

if you guys ever do this, it would be nice to have a screenshot from every av facing the same direction. then with the screenshots make a flipbook or video. just a thought.

O.o

Whoah....that would be crazy

Haven't received any submissions as yet - helping hands needed!

Message below is also at Msg. #2 at top of this thread.

RFS - Request for Submissions: The Official Hand to be used for the HANDS ACROSS SL Celebration!

Calling all Sculptures, AV-Artists, ANIMA-Wizards, and all creative souls throughout the land! Hear Yea, Hear Yea!

We need your talents and your helping hands!

Submit your vision of a HAND(S) Attachment that can be worn on our AV which is large enough to be seen clearly from above. One Hand or Hands will be chosen as the Official Logo-Attachment for the Hands Across SL Celebration on June 23, 2005 - the 3rd Birthday of Second Life.

So get busy making your HANDS - lots of designs, types, colors - Thumbs Up, OK signs, High Fives, Hand Grasped In Friendship, Hands of Joy, Full Hands, Zen Hands, Power Hands, Fiery Hands, etc. etc.

Please either drop 'em on me inWorld or send me an IM and I'll come to you and see what ya got.