OBSERVATION 011
Press the picture and the points thin out. There are four rungs —
forty thousand, six hundred, forty, one. The equation running underneath does not change.
Only the shape goes.
“Listen” is the same bundle of relations, thrown to the ear instead of the eye.
No sound was added; the same equation is put out through another sense.
The forewing and the hindwing beat slightly apart.
Make them beat together and it becomes an artificial flower at once.
The wing looks short as it closes, but it is not contracting.
Over there the wing stays flat; it is only tilting toward us.
That tilt is what is drawn on this surface.
The edges look darker.
Points have gathered along the rim of the wing.
Even them out and the wing becomes a grey plate, and reads as a flower.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:1564755a91a6415c9621873817c714e0c2a69bb55f8111c27da745e863ba42b2
Run at any time, by anyone, it appears in the same form.
No randomness, no clock, nothing from the environment.
The button above takes the equation out as it is. To count it again yourself:
pbpaste > f.txt && printf %s "$(cat f.txt)" | shasum -a 256
Take it and run it. No randomness and no clock are used, so the same creature appears on your screen too. The equation belongs to no one.