The Smaller Picture

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The collective consciousness is attempting to create a bird.

Should the pink pixel be ...

or ?
You can browse the history of this picture, or view it as an animation.

New pictures being created :
human head sword apple cat castle sofa

Previous pictures :
circle house question mark star lamp face landscape goat map of the world letter cup spiral umbrella banana car television anything bucket heart stick person monster bee flower tree Great Britain wineglass computer telephone chair word anything fish boat spider arrow flag

Created by Kevan Davis in July 2002, based on Kevin Kelly's account of hive-mind audience emergence.
Each picture starts from a randomised grid. There have been 5398 flips to this one, so far.
See also: the official Typophile Font spinoff and Tom Rankin's filtering of it.

Other people have built much better emergent art projects
since this went live in 2002, most notably Swarm Sketch, Pixelfest and TheBroth.