Are they really gallows, or are they those Japanese “gate” things?
I got maybe two plants. Animals? HAHAHAHA!
They’re this shape, only the upright is a little bumpy, like a tree trunk: http://talktorbay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/gallows1.bmp
…after leaving it up for over half a day a few things added themselves, more people, etc.
Just changed the lighting a bit to see what changes, if any that does.
Aw. I was starting to think the stuff about the comic breaking was the joke.
Same here. And now the garden one is crashing my tablet’s xkcd app.
Huh, that does look like gallows. I don’t have that. I do have something with two legs, that looks sort of like Torii gates.
I seem to have different stuff in different color light. A mess of octopods in blue light. Some dead branches in red light. A dying bush that appeared in white light but is now in blue (i moved the lights) and some garden-y stuff where the light is white. I think i need to weed the garden, though.
The linked picture IS gallows, not a screenshot from XKCD.
I’ve got three deer, two cats, a snake, a cactus and some stuff growing it. There’s also a small stick of some sort poked into the ground.
I was wondering if you needed to prune the garden in order to get more objects. So on my latest try I had (in order of appearance) a deer, a waving weed (hidden behind the deer’s hind legs), a waving tree, a cactus, and an unidentifiable blob that could be a flat rock. I deleted the deer (so I could see the weed behind it) and the rock (because it was boring). Within minutes the rock came back; no other changes yet.
Okay, I called up my inner Mark Watney and applied some science to this.
I set up four “gardens” and let them run for several hours. Here are the results:
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three lights, one of each color, wide beams, overlapping - fountains and trees, some small cacti, no significant animals. I also noticed that while the trunks grow taller, the leaves stop abruptly as the trunks grow past the three light zone.
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three lights, two blue and one white, medium beams, arranged side-by-side so there’s no overlap - several octopi in the blue zones; small trees, a fountain, a structure, and a deer in the white zone.
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three lights, all blue, medium beams, focused on an overlapping area - two octupi. This reinforces the evidence that blue light produces octupi.
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three lights, one of each color, all narrow beams, the red aimed at one spot, the blue and white aimed overlapping at another spot - the red zone produced what appear to be turtles; the blue/white zone produced a small cactus and stem. It appears narrow beams do not work well.
Some more research results.
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I adjusted the lights so they cover a larger area. As I theorized, leaves began growing in the area that is now covered by all three lights. In addition, a woman and a duck have appeared in the garden.
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I changed one of the blue lights to red. The octupi remain but cacti have appeared.
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I again switched one of the blue lights to red. No cacti but a woman has appeared.
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I widened the beams so they covered a larger area. The red zone is essentially the same. The blue/white zone has more stems, one of which has become a balloon, and a bird and a rabbit have appeared.
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the red zone produced what appear to be turtles; the blue/white zone produced a small cactus and stem. It appears narrow beams do not work well.
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The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There’s never stopping in a white zone.
Oh, this wasn’t about Airplane!? 
Someone must have dumped old motor oil in my browser as the most I’ve been able to grow is one tiny bunny and a bumper crop of browser hangs.
I suppose I wouldn’t make a good physicist- I hate having to deduce what the rules are from multiple experimental trials.
While I had previously been doing a lot of overlapping, in my latest attempt I have mostly segregated colors (far red, far blue, middle yellow), I thought it was interesting that the blue grew nothing at all, while four objects, including an octopus, are crammed together in the tiny blue/red overlap. (The fourth object is the girl’s hat, which she didn’t have initially.)
I got a rock.
wide beam 3 trials, covering maximum coverage one trial per color.
White light got the most plants, ducks, and dear, big ass tree with a platform of some kind. lots of grass.
Blue, 2 octopi, a stick figure, a tiny Washington memorial
Red, 2 cacti, 2 or 3 turtles, I think that was it.
White light was by far the most crowded with stuff…hmmm I wonder what happens with no lights at all?
I’ve got a “sale” sign in my garden. lol
One of my trees grew a gallows arm amidst its foliage… upon which is now purchased another fountain. Also, the tables are breeding faster than the bunnies.
Autocorrect?
Has anyone actually seen these object arriving? Do they grow out of the ground, drop from the sky, just suddenly appear, or what?