Click on this link to open the Flash app, and you will be presented with just a few large circles.
Hover your mouse over one of them, and it will split into four smaller dots, each a different colour.
Then do it again.
And again.
… and again.
Each iteration makes the dots smaller and smaller, meaning that it is harder to put your mouse over each of them — and there are soon too many to count.
It’s a great introduction to fractals, to geometric progression, and to cellular reproduction.
It’s also a fantastic timesuck.
Allegedly, if you manage to get them all to the smallest dots, a circle emerges, but I have no idea if this is true, or just something someone said to get people even more deeply invested in the process.
Now please excuse me, I have to get back to my dots.
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Grant Hamilton
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