229 – Homeo, Homeo! Wherefore art thou Homeo?

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  1. Warren says:

    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 says:

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

  3. invisibules says:

    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 says:

    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 says:

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

    • Luke says:

      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%

      • 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 says:

    thanks for making me clean my monitor

  7. Magnus says:

    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 says:

    Least funny comic ever.

  9. Philip says:

    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 says:

    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 says:

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

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