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This page, on a site essentially filled with time-wasting fun stuff, is simply cool: seemingly nonsensical interior paint jobs suddenly pop into very sensical patterns when you look at them from the exact right spot, sometimes looking as if the air in front of you is painted. It's how I wish I was able to paint my room when I was a kid.
From This is True for 5 February 2006
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