I tried zooming out - Firefox let's you zoom out to 30% - but still couldn't get close to seeing the whole thing. At this zoom level the browser becomes pretty unresponsive anyway...
This reminded me of Tim Urban's article about numbers: [From 1 to 1,000,000](https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/from-1-to-1000000.html). In that article he has an image with a million tightly packed dots - that should give you an idea of how big this Minesweeper game is!
Hahahaha apologies for the reddit-like comment but I laughed so hard.. when scrolling (for a while) on the "1 million dots" portion of the page (big portion), after the loooooong image the author writes "Sorry. A million dots is a lot of dots."
I was once in Copernic Science Centre (Warsaw, Poland), and they had some cylinders with tiny plastic spheres (imagine 1-2mm diameter each sphere). One of the cylinders was supposed to have 100k? 1m? spheres (or some similarly crazy number) and only 1 red sphere, and I remember I was rotating that cylinder for a couple of minutes (it is not tightly packed to the spheres can move around) and eventually I saw the red sphere.
Ps: on the URL of the parent.. I could not find the red dot.. I gave up after a couple of minutes. I will though try the following (later tonight). Save the image, take it to Photoshop, pick the "black color", use that to erase all the similarly colored (black) dots, and the red one will remain behind for me to easily spot.
It took me about 30 seconds to find the red dot, entirely by visual scan. I am awed at the parallel power of our visual system, our "GPU". Doing the task serially would take days if not weeks!
It's blowing my mind to think that all these dots are actual living human beings... and that you'd need over seven thousand of these million-dots images to count all of them.
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I tried zooming out - Firefox let's you zoom out to 30% - but still couldn't get close to seeing the whole thing. At this zoom level the browser becomes pretty unresponsive anyway...
This reminded me of Tim Urban's article about numbers: [From 1 to 1,000,000](https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/from-1-to-1000000.html). In that article he has an image with a million tightly packed dots - that should give you an idea of how big this Minesweeper game is!
Hahahaha apologies for the reddit-like comment but I laughed so hard.. when scrolling (for a while) on the "1 million dots" portion of the page (big portion), after the loooooong image the author writes "Sorry. A million dots is a lot of dots."
I was once in Copernic Science Centre (Warsaw, Poland), and they had some cylinders with tiny plastic spheres (imagine 1-2mm diameter each sphere). One of the cylinders was supposed to have 100k? 1m? spheres (or some similarly crazy number) and only 1 red sphere, and I remember I was rotating that cylinder for a couple of minutes (it is not tightly packed to the spheres can move around) and eventually I saw the red sphere.
Ps: on the URL of the parent.. I could not find the red dot.. I gave up after a couple of minutes. I will though try the following (later tonight). Save the image, take it to Photoshop, pick the "black color", use that to erase all the similarly colored (black) dots, and the red one will remain behind for me to easily spot.
The follow-on Numbers post #2 is hilarious: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
I found that article extremely uncomfortable... Those big numbers start to twist my mind in unnatural ways!
It took me about 30 seconds to find the red dot, entirely by visual scan. I am awed at the parallel power of our visual system, our "GPU". Doing the task serially would take days if not weeks!
It's blowing my mind to think that all these dots are actual living human beings... and that you'd need over seven thousand of these million-dots images to count all of them.
Not sure what number it is, but I've found it half-way between 200k and 300k.
Rather closer to 200k than to 300k, on the left side of the image.