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What the Sites Are Drawing IV

A third wall of listed sites and one question. Squinting is allowed.

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How to play

Look first, then answer

A third wall of listed sites and one question. Squinting is allowed.

  • 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

Why squinting helps

If you squinted at the close-up, you were doing on purpose what stepping back does by itself: throwing away fine detail. The letters and logos change from one tile to the next, which is fine detail; the brightness that draws the leaf changes slowly across many tiles, which is coarse. Blur the view and only the coarse part survives.

Painters have used the same trick for centuries, half-closing their eyes to judge the light and dark of a scene without being distracted by its detail. Here the detail is a directory of real websites, and the light and dark is a leaf.

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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