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229 – Homeo, Homeo! Wherefore art thou Homeo?

by Luke on November 2, 2009 at 12:00 am

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  1. Warren
    Warren
    November 2, 2009 at 1:24 am | # | Reply

    When I see a lone pixel like that, I worry my monitor’s developed a bad pixel… Also, to be a pedant for a change, before it was diluted this comic must have had many more pixels than you can fit in those 4 panels. I guess you must have used layers on Photoshop.

  2. Pope
    Pope
    November 2, 2009 at 8:32 am | # | Reply

    Funny comic. Funny enough for some people to suggest homeopathy does work.

  3. invisibules
    invisibules
    November 3, 2009 at 7:13 pm | # | Reply

    fantastic — I added this one to my collection “Invisibules the new meme?” at invisibules.org. Don’t you think the red pixel makes it a bit busy, and not quite dilute enough for homeopathy?

  4. jean-françois
    jean-françois
    December 3, 2009 at 2:06 am | # | Reply

    for this to be homeopathy, there needs to be no pixels, the screen retains the pixel’s signature—this is called the “memory of liquid crystal” effect.

  5. Roxolan
    Roxolan
    December 14, 2009 at 9:48 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, maybe that lone pixel just got lucky. Whatever the number of dilutions, it’s unlikely but possible.

    • Luke
      Luke
      December 14, 2009 at 10:02 pm | # | Reply

      Not that unlikely actually, the image above is 900 x 407 pixels (366300). If half of those are within the borders, the chance of a single pixel (or more) remaining with 1,000,000x dilution is about 17%

      • Dwayne Litzenberger
        Dwayne Litzenberger
        December 15, 2009 at 3:31 am | #

        Each pixel has 3 sub-pixels (one for each of red, green, and blue), so 900 x 407 x 3 = 1,098,900 sub-pixels.

        Unfortunately, he went from white to red, which involves changing two of those sub-pixels, so it’s really only been diluted about 500,000 times.

        Still, it’s pretty funny.

  6. Rowan Copley
    Rowan Copley
    December 15, 2009 at 12:52 am | # | Reply

    thanks for making me clean my monitor

    • P
      P
      February 13, 2010 at 1:06 am | # | Reply

      rofl – that’s one way to lose the fourth wall

  7. Magnus
    Magnus
    December 18, 2009 at 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Actually, when you make a homeopathic remedy, it should be diluted 10^30 times, not a mere 10^6 times… If your pixel is about 0.2 mm wide, it would be a comic strip with the area of 40,000,000,000,000,000 km^2. That’s more than 26,000 times larger than the area of the sun. Now THAT’S diluted!

  8. anon
    anon
    February 18, 2010 at 11:40 am | # | Reply

    Least funny comic ever.

  9. Philip
    Philip
    March 2, 2010 at 7:52 pm | # | Reply

    Only 1,000,000 times? No wonder it didn’t work! You need at least C10 (=100^10) for this kind of stuff.

  10. pv
    pv
    June 11, 2010 at 7:59 am | # | Reply

    Must agree with those who say it’s not been diluted enough. It would be much funnier if diluted more. Still, it made me laugh a little bit.

  11. Luis Antón
    Luis Antón
    June 11, 2010 at 8:43 am | # | Reply

    Well, it works. At least for me. Your comic, I mean. It made me laugh a lot :)

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