Wow! Thanks Team Rhizome! I feel honored to be in the winners circle and embarrassed to have submitted the only non-animated favicon of the bunch. I only wish that my design could have been more superfluous, annoying and distracting.

Let it be known that "my" favicon is based on a mathematically rigorous-sounding graphic created by Wikipedia User:Billkendrick. The Wikipedia description of the source image reads as follows: "A colour grid showing a 8 bits per pixel (256 color) image composed of "true color" values: 3 bits of red, 3 bits of green and 2 bits of blue."

The licensing information indicates that the image is in the public domain and may be used "for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law." So I went nuts and downsampled the image to 16x16 px. Each color on the original grid takes up exactly one pixel of the favicon.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colour_grid_showing_256_color_image_composed_of_true_color_values.png


Thanks User:Billkendrick! This one's for you!!!

Variation on a common theme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colour_grid_showing_256_color_image_composed_of_true_color_values.png