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Pixelated blue sphere with light gradient, featuring black abstract symbols on its surface and a white highlight on the upper right.

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2
Non-canonical
1
Pixel-exact
1
Perceptual
0

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Pixelated blue sphere with light gradient, featuring black abstract symbols on its surface and a white highlight on the upper right.

Pixelated blue sphere with light gradient, featuring black abstract symbols on its surface and a white highlight on the upper right. 48×48 PNG AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central sphere
  • solid background
  • light gradient on sphere

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated blue sphere with a light gradient transitioning from darker blue on the left to lighter blue on the right. A bright white highlight appears on the upper right portion of the sphere. Three distinct black abstract symbols are visible on the sphere's surface: a stylized 'M' shape on the left, a curved 'C' shape below it, and a small curved line near the bottom. The sphere has a smooth, rounded form with a slightly irregular edge on the right side where the blue pixels fade into the gray background. The background is a solid light gray color. The image is rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue sphere with light gradient, featuring black abstract symbols on its surface and a white highlight on the upper right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 162
  • observation file-name (gallery): 162
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue sphere abstract symbols
  • pixelated blue sphere white highlight
  • low-resolution blue sphere black symbols
  • blue sphere gray background pixel art

Wordwall

  • blue sphere
  • light gradient
  • white highlight
  • black abstract symbols
  • pixelated
  • gray background
  • low-resolution
  • smooth form
  • irregular edge
  • stylized M
  • curved C
  • small curved line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
PNG
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/6881568d77ff456dc51adf5458d46ab3a5b1ccdcdf4db68d1f037d39f92e2818.png
Media type
image/png
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Archive ID
6881568d77ff456d
SHA-256
6881568d77ff456dc51adf5458d46ab3a5b1ccdcdf4db68d1f037d39f92e2818
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079812

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue sphere with light gradient, featuring black abstract symbols on its surface and a white highlight on the upper right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,818 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 697

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue sphere (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • central sphere
  • solid background
  • light gradient on sphere

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated blue sphere with a light gradient transitioning from darker blue on the left to lighter blue on the right. A bright white highlight appears on the upper right portion of the sphere. Three distinct black abstract symbols are visible on the sphere's surface: a stylized 'M' shape on the left, a curved 'C' shape below it, and a small curved line near the bottom. The sphere has a smooth, rounded form with a slightly irregular edge on the right side where the blue pixels fade into the gray background. The background is a solid light gray color. The image is rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue sphere with light gradient, featuring black abstract symbols on its surface and a white highlight on the upper right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation category (gallery): Favorites
  • observation file-name (gallery): mybuddy3
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): my-buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): tucows
  • observation title (gallery): 162
  • observation file-name (gallery): 162
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2004
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive / Tucows My Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2004
  • provenance topic-coverage: abstract graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: bundled icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: desktop utility
  • provenance cultural-slice: desktop utility bundled icon collections

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue sphere abstract symbols
  • pixelated blue sphere white highlight
  • low-resolution blue sphere black symbols
  • blue sphere gray background pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • abstract graphics

Subjects

  • blue sphere

Wordwall

  • blue sphere
  • light gradient
  • white highlight
  • black abstract symbols
  • pixelated
  • gray background
  • low-resolution
  • smooth form
  • irregular edge
  • stylized M
  • curved C
  • small curved line
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:25 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
162
Archive entry
Favorites/162.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%2F162.ico Download: https://archive.org/download/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons/mybuddy3.exe#Favorites%2F162.ico Page: https://archive.org/details/tucows_305348_My_Buddy_Icons