Meanwhile

Development

Meanwhile began in the form of small-press self-published black-and-white comic 'zines in 1999, but developed and was expanded and optimised over the intervening decade. To facilitate with its layout, computers were pressed into service and ultimately found an optimal layout to be an NP-complete problem. The final panel arrangement was achieved through use of "a V-opt heuristic algorithm that ran for 12 hours on an SGI machine."