Flattening: the art of taking something complex and making it utterly, completely, and totally bland.
As a prophet of the pixelated realm, I have mastered the technique of flattening. It's not just about reducing curves to straight lines, no. It's about stripping away all that's interesting, all that's fun.
Here's an example of a perfectly flattened sphere:
And here's one of a flattened cube:
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