Recently, I seem to have found an "coloring game" online that I can play for a lifetime.

 Friends, have you ever had such an experience? On a certain late night, you accidentally click on a link, and then it's like falling into a rabbit hole. Before you know it, dawn is almost breaking.

Last week, I encountered such a "rabbit hole" called Wplace.

Simply put, Wplace is a huge online canvas overlaid on a real-world map. Anyone in the world can enter this website, choose a color, click on any pixel, and leave their mark. It sounds simple, right? But when you zoom out, you'll find that thousands of people are engaged in a silent and grand creation on it—some are drawing huge national flags, some are replicating Van Gogh's *Starry Night*, and students from various universities are drawing their school emblems on their own school's "territory," engaging in pixel-level territory battles.

It's simply adults' Lego, cross-stitch of the digital age. I was instantly hooked. My greatest pleasure every day is to go on it to see the new progress of the few paintings I follow and, by the way, contribute to their construction.

After playing for a few days, I had a bold idea: my friend's birthday is next month. Can I draw one of her super cute photos on Wplace to give her a unique surprise?

As soon as this thought came to me, I excitedly opened PS, shrank the photo, and gridded it... Then, I was stunned.

First of all, the colors didn't match. The colors provided by Wplace are limited. How should I match the hundreds of colors in my photo to the dozens of colors in Wplace? Secondly, even if I forced myself to match them, looking at that dense reference image composed of tens of thousands of pixels, I felt like my eyes were going to go blind. After I finished drawing the first one in the first row, when I went to find the second one in the first row, I already didn't know where the previous one was.

That feeling of going from great ambition to giving up instantly was really frustrating.

Just when I was about to give up and prepare to buy an ordinary birthday gift, I ranted wildly in a Wplace discussion group. Unintentionally, someone sent me a link. When I clicked on it, my eyes lit up, feeling like I had found an oasis in the desert.

This website is www.wplaceconverter.art (yes, I must type out the URL because it's really amazing).

Its interface is super simple, just an image upload tool. But after I uploaded my friend's photo, a miracle happened.

The most amazing thing about it is that it actually has Wplace's official color palette built-in! After you upload an image, it will automatically match the colors to those available on Wplace. I don't have to rack my brain to figure out which color is the closest at all. The conversion effect is surprisingly good.

But what's even better is that what it generates is not a rigid image, but an interactive grid. When my mouse clicks on any pixel, it will tell me the Wplace coordinates and color of that point! This means I'll never draw in the wrong position again.

The most touching feature is that it also has a progress marker. After I finish drawing a point on Wplace, I go back to this website and click on the corresponding grid, and that grid will turn gray. This way, I'll never forget where I've drawn up to, and I can pause and continue at any time. For someone like me with a bad memory, this is simply a lifesaver!

In the following week, I immersed myself in this "tracing" project every day after work. Watching that familiar smiling face gradually emerge from pixel by pixel on the Wplace canvas, that sense of accomplishment is really indescribable.

Just yesterday, I finally finished the last pixel. Although the process was a bit like "being in prison," when I sent the Wplace coordinate link to my friend and let her see this gift, she was too excited to speak on the other end.

At that moment, I felt that all the previous hard work was worth it.

If you are also interested in the interesting world of Wplace, or if you have a "masterpiece" in your heart that you want to realize, you can really check out the website www.wplaceconverter.art. It may not reduce the fatigue of your fingers, but it will definitely save your eyes and brain.

Well, that's enough said. My next project—a huge avatar of my cat owner—is already on the way.