Here is a poster I made which shows 1 million dots on a single page. One of the dots however is red; can you spot it?
To view the poster in Microsoft PowerPoint: right-click on the link below, select ‘Save Target As…’ and save the file to your computer. You should then be able to open and view the poster as you would a regular PowerPoint presentation.
Thanks to this website for providing the 10,000 dots template which I used for this poster.
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Sheesh! I went over the durned thing thoroughly at 400x magnification. Didn’t see a red dot. If it’s dark red, that’s cheating
Sandra
Wizards and Ogres and Elves…oh my!
ha ha, I assure you it IS there. It is bright red too. Once you see it, it is very obvious.
The answer is simple – draw a rectangle over all the dots, double click the box you’ve just created, Fill box in red and set the transparency to 25%. This takes out the white background thus stopping your brain playing tricks on you… and you still see all the BLACK dots, however as there is one RED dot. This RED dot will appear invisable-ish with your translucent red frame and even at a zoom of 200% – the RED dot sticks out like a sore thumb… if you can’t be bothered with that… then set your zoom to “fit”, 2ND COLUMN, GO TO THE 8TH BOX DOWN. Now… zoom onto that box at 150%, this reveals 100 boxs of dots) 7TH COLUMN, 1ST BOX – this is where you will find the RED DOT – Zoom to 400% -(5TH COLUMN, 9TH DOT) – Voilà
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Ha ha, very good! Congratulations for finding it. Did you manage to find the grey dot too??? Only joking about the grey dot
Thanks for this illustration. I was wanting something to show my students what an enormous number one million is, considering that 1.4 million babies are aborted in the United States every year.