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Pixelated sun icon with orange center and yellow rays, two black square eyes on gray background.

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Pixelated sun icon with orange center and yellow rays, two black square eyes on gray background.

Pixelated sun icon with orange center and yellow rays, two black square eyes on gray background. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons, Early-2000…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • central
  • starburst

Dense Caption

Static pixel art sun icon with 16 radiating yellow rays of varying brightness, each ray bordered by white pixels. Central orange circle contains two solid black square eyes. Background is uniform light gray. Rays extend from center to edges, forming a symmetrical starburst pattern. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No text or additional symbols visible.

Description

  • Pixelated sun icon with orange center and yellow rays, two black square eyes on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 246
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 246
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sun pixel art
  • orange center black eyes
  • 16 ray sun icon
  • gray background pixel art
  • symmetrical starburst eyes
  • pixelated sun with eyes
  • black square eyes sun
  • yellow rays orange center

Wordwall

  • 16 rays
  • yellow rays
  • orange center
  • black square eyes
  • gray background
  • symmetrical
  • pixelated
  • starburst
  • solid black eyes
  • uniform background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1a/1a794ae4a7e0b75c0afea24957024cdf6d43fc463706c1727e756eac5df04650.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
1a794ae4a7e0b75c
SHA-256
1a794ae4a7e0b75c0afea24957024cdf6d43fc463706c1727e756eac5df04650
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078481

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated sun icon with orange center and yellow rays, two black square eyes on gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,665 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,029, response 594

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • eyes (subject, 0.80)
  • sun (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • central
  • starburst

Dense Caption

Static pixel art sun icon with 16 radiating yellow rays of varying brightness, each ray bordered by white pixels. Central orange circle contains two solid black square eyes. Background is uniform light gray. Rays extend from center to edges, forming a symmetrical starburst pattern. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No text or additional symbols visible.

Description

  • Pixelated sun icon with orange center and yellow rays, two black square eyes on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Favorites
  • mybuddy3
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 246
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Metadata Only Entities

  • Favorites
  • my-buddy-icons
  • tucows
  • 246
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • bundled icons
  • desktop utility
  • desktop utility bundled icon collections

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sun pixel art
  • orange center black eyes
  • 16 ray sun icon
  • gray background pixel art
  • symmetrical starburst eyes
  • pixelated sun with eyes
  • black square eyes sun
  • yellow rays orange center

Style

  • pixel art
  • abstract
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • sun
  • eyes

Wordwall

  • 16 rays
  • yellow rays
  • orange center
  • black square eyes
  • gray background
  • symmetrical
  • pixelated
  • starburst
  • solid black eyes
  • uniform background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (3)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons (internet-archive-tucows-my-buddy-icons)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Downloadware
Type
safely extracted archived Windows utility icon library
Category
Favorites
Title
246
Archive entry
Favorites/246.ico
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Rights
publisher-described original utility-bundled icons; research/reference only by default
Slice
desktop utility bundled icon collections
Original: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F246.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F246.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons