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The messages used the fact that 1,000,000 = 1000 x 1000. But of course 1,000,000 has many other factorizations. Were there messages in any of those?

I guess next time you pick a prime (or a semiprime) if you want to make it harder (or easier) for people to guess a good shape!



The Discord URL message that eieio found could be found without relying on 1000x1000, imagery. The other pictures did described in the article did, though.

As for your question, the answer is yes. Bear in mind that the question you're asking is essentially the same as "if you resize your browser window so you can see a specific number of checkboxes per row, are there any drawings you can see?". And people definitely did draw stuff in widths other than 1000! It was just at a vastly smaller scale and done manually.

That said, I do want to try analyzing any available data to see what I can find, for sure.




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