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There is a really interesting ongoing project to find the seed used for the default world and server icons:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbR8ZY1Nsm8

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE

Part 2 covers most of the efforts to reverse-engineer the seed.

This is quite fascinating, I hope they find it, I'm surprised they havent just emailed Mojang about it.

Part 2 of the videos mentions that Notch replied, saying that he doesn’t remember where the image is from, and that it’s likely coming from a world generated with a random seed.

Dinnerbone has also commented on reddit threads saying they support the project, but they don't think there's anything else mojang can do to help.

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