What the heck is the Wikipedia background image?

[Malachi_Throne]

I’m still not seeing the book thing, it’s more like rays of light.
The Great Wall seems to be the main theme, though.

[chimera57]

@Sal Ammoniac

Well, it’s not an open book to me! Ha! But I think you’re right. I guess this should be turned into a poll: am I the only one to failed to see that?

I doubt it. I know it’s an open book, but every time I go to Wikipedia and that background image loads, I think “What the hell is that? Oh yeah, I remember, it’s an open book.”

[Tenebras]

Cervix

[Indistinguishable]

There are an awful lot of guests with October 2007 join dates who think this looks like The Great Wall.

[SmackFu]

I think it looks awesomely like a great wall, so there. Only after I saw the comparison pic tho.

[Great_Dave]

No way the Great Wall is even close.

[zeno]

Did you know the Toyota logo is a Mexican in a sombrero?

[Contrapuntal]

@Malachi Throne

I’m still not seeing the book thing, it’s more like rays of light.
The Great Wall seems to be the main theme, though.

How can you look at this and not see a book?

[BMalion]

@zeno

Did you know the Toyota logo is a Mexican in a sombrero?

Well, when Tim Burton’s Batman was released, I remember an interviewer commmenting to him that she always thought it was a mouth with teeth, and didn’t realize it was supposed to be a bat.

[Shelf_stable_at_room_temperatu]

@Contrapuntal

How can you look at this and not see a book?

Like most of the people above, I have a hard time seeing the book. Unless perhpas it’s a looseleaf binder?
Maybe if you put a picture of a real book next to the logo we could see what points of similarity you see. Add circles and arrows.

But, really, isn’t there some way Cecil can resolve this by calling the Wikipedia folk?
Isn’t he in the union for answer gurus?

[Contrapuntal]

@Shelf stable at room temperatu

Like most of the people above, I have a hard time seeing the book. Unless perhpas it’s a looseleaf binder?

The book is open at the middle and laying flat on it’s back. The inverted “v” from which the “rays” (pages) emanate is the spine. The smashed “u” shape that mirrors the “v” is the back. The slightly off vertical dark shadow at the far right delineates the edge of the cover.

[Colophon]

@Shelf stable at room temperatu

Like most of the people above, I have a hard time seeing the book. Unless perhpas it’s a looseleaf binder?
Maybe if you put a picture of a real book next to the logo we could see what points of similarity you see. Add circles and arrows.

But, really, isn’t there some way Cecil can resolve this by calling the Wikipedia folk?
Isn’t he in the union for answer gurus?

See post #13 of this very thread.

Joeyt P linked to this picture. Squish it a bit vertically and decolorise it and it’s almost identical to the Wiki background.

[garygnu]

Here, I increased the contrast. Book

[Labdad]

@HeyHomie

I’m with you there - I always thought it was a mountain, as well. Now that I’ve read this thread, I can barely discern how it might be a book, but I’m not really getting it.

@Shelf Stable at Room Temperatu

Like most of the people above, I have a hard time seeing the book. Unless perhpas it’s a looseleaf binder?
Maybe if you put a picture of a real book next to the logo we could see what points of similarity you see. Add circles and arrows.

But, really, isn’t there some way Cecil can resolve this by calling the Wikipedia folk?
Isn’t he in the union for answer gurus?

Can you see the “11” in the Big Ten logo?

[CookingWithGas]

@Shelf stable at room temperatu

Like most of the people above, I have a hard time seeing the book…Maybe if you put a picture of a real book next to the logo we could see what points of similarity you see. Add circles and arrows.

Here’s a photo of a whole book. Put it next to the Wikipedia image and it will become obvious (without circles and arrows).

[Colibri]

@Shelf stable at room temperatu

Like most of the people above, I have a hard time seeing the book. Unless perhpas it’s a looseleaf binder?
Maybe if you put a picture of a real book next to the logo we could see what points of similarity you see. Add circles and arrows.

But, really, isn’t there some way Cecil can resolve this by calling the Wikipedia folk?
Isn’t he in the union for answer gurus?

Cecil doesn’t normally answer questions this obvious. As Keeve and others have stated, it is clearly a book.

[Keeve]

@garygnu

Here, I increased the contrast. Book

WHOA!!! That is absolutely incredible!!! All you skeptics who still don’t see the book, you really have to see this!!!

[Sal_Ammoniac]

@Colibri

Cecil doesn’t normally answer questions this obvious. As Keeve and others have stated, it is clearly a book.

All right, but maybe Cecil can say why the thread has gone to two pages, when the OP was fully answered in the very first response!

[Frylock]

@Chrismoody

When I was young I had MAJOR issues with the old U.S.P.S. logo.

(google gave me an example here). I always thought it was some strange picture of a head or something looking to the left. I’m not kidding you. Either a very odd hat or a big nose. Just thought it was one of those odd things, a weird logo chosen for no good reason… Or that I was just young and didn’t get the meaning of it (like many things when I was 7) and knew it was on the “meh, whatever” scale of things and would eventually figure out the guy with the weird hat logo.

I know exactly what you mean. When I was a kid, I thought the Mobil logo depicted a spray bottle of some kind.

A spray bottle.

I can no longer understand what I thought I was seeing, but there it is.

-FrL-

[Keeve]

@zeno

Did you know the Toyota logo is a Mexican in a sombrero?

Okay, so what is it really?
My guess has been that it looks like a very stylized bull: The vertical ellipse is the head, the horizontal one is the horns, and the outer one is merely a frame.