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Your final answer should answer the question "What is something you could get after solving this puzzle?"

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Each of these:

can be made into a word by applying some transformation. The trick to this is that all of the information is used twice - the lines drawn are only half of what we actually need.


Left column, top:

Reflecting across a diagonal line gives ABSURD.
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Left column, middle:

Appending a color-flipped version of the same picture gives FOSSIL.
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Left column, bottom:

Overlay a copy shifted to the right, and you can read the word PETROL.
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Right column, top:

Overlaying a copy rotated 180° gives BANDIT. enter image description here

Right column, middle:

Reading the cubes from the front gives BEY; reading the cubes from the right side gives OND.
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Right column, bottom:

Overlaying a horizontally reflected copy gives OVERDO.
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Now what?

Each of the words had one eye on it in the original image - when the transformation was applied, that eye marked two different letters.

So that gives us a total of twelve letters - but how do we order them?

The boxes next to the words, when overlaid, make a shape that looks like a 6:

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And one of the shapes looks like a 1...

This gives the final "redundant" art: There's an order that you can overlay the six shapes, so they look like the numbers 1-6.
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Picking one of the two eye-marked letters from each word, in this order, gives DOUBLE - and the other eye-marked letters give VISION! So DOUBLE VISION is the final answer, and certainly something you might get after solving this.

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    Wow. This puzzle is incredible - never seen anything that uses ambigrams in this way before! Brilliant solve too - very well done :) – Stiv Apr 26 '21 at 19:40
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    Correct! Just one little additional detail: rot13(Gur qha/qna va gur gvgyr vf gur rknpg fnzr frg bs tylcuf, uvagvat ng gur prageny zrpunavp.) – noneuclideanisms Apr 26 '21 at 19:45