Like something that if you look at it too long you won't be able to pull yourself away? Almost as if you were petrified? That's an interesting idea. Someone ought to write an essay.
In an early episode of EEVBlog, Jones made a big 14x14 grid of 1% tolerance resistors to estimate the resistance empirically. (He does do the knight's move like Munroe proposed at the very end.)
https://xkcd.com/356/