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What the Sites Are Drawing III

Real websites, a few lighter lines running between them, and a picture you only see from further off.

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How to play

Look first, then answer

Real websites, a few lighter lines running between them, and a picture you only see from further off.

  • Under a minute · one question · then the explanation
  • This one moves, or may seem to.
How it works — best read after you have tried it

Lines made of tiles that are not lines

The facets of this gem are drawn by rows of lighter tiles running through the darker ones. None of those tiles is a line; each carries a site’s initials or logo, the same as its neighbours. You read a line anyway, because the eye groups things that are alike and in a row, and treats the group as one object.

That grouping is why you can see the outline and the facets from a distance long before you could say what is written on any tile. Close up, the difference between a lighter and a darker tile is small next to the difference between one logo and the next, so the grouping has nothing to hold on to.

Woven from 27 sites

Every tile is a site listed on Pixeloom. Nobody paid for a place in this picture; each site gets the same number of tiles.

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