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Entries on the wheel

A wheel for choices that are easier to recognise than to read. Each entry gets its own colour on the rim today, and its own picture shortly.

What makes a picture wheel easier to read across a room?

Colour, before anything else. Every entry takes its own segment colour, and a room four metres back recognises a colour long before it can read a label — which is why a market stall, a school fete or a live stream reaches for this rim rather than a list of words.

It is also the wheel that needs no translation: nothing on the rim has to be read in a particular language, so an audience that does not share yours still follows the draw. Pictures on the segments are the next step for this wheel, and the colours are what does the work today.

Which wheel comes next?

Prizes people recognise by sight are what the prize wheel page sets out, stall and stand included. When the draw is a sequence rather than a set of things, the letter wheel is the nearer rim, and a straight yes or no is the yes/no wheel.

About the picture wheel

Yes — for the face and for the middle. Pick a PNG, JPEG or WebP, then place it on the wheel itself: drag to move, scroll to zoom, turn it with the handle. The file is resized in your browser and never leaves this device unless you share or save the wheel. Segments work the other way round: each one takes a picture from the built-in set rather than an upload, so a whole wheel still fits inside a share link.

Its segment on the rim. The palette picker changes the whole scheme at once, and the high-contrast palette is there for a wheel that has to be read from the back of a room or by somebody using a projector.

As many as the job needs. Labels stop being drawn below four degrees of arc — around ninety entries — and past that the rim carries colour alone while the list beside it stays the readable version.

Copy the link. The whole wheel travels inside the address — entries, weights, colours, machine and palette — so the person who opens it sees exactly what you made, with nothing stored on a server.

Add ?embed=1 to the link and the page renders the wheel and the result on their own, with no chrome around them — suitable for an iframe or an OBS browser source. &bg=transparent leaves the stage unpainted so the background behind it shows.