OBSERVATION 016
Press the picture to reduce the points.40,000 → 625 → 40 → 1. Restore at any step.
At fewer points, dots grow and trails linger to help you follow their paths.
“Listen” maps the displayed points to sound.Changing the count rebuilds the sound.
Two, released from separate places, settle into one ring.
They enter winding in opposite directions, so inside the ring they keep passing each other.
Where they overlap, fringes appear.
Neither of them is the darker one.
Their two scales differ very slightly,
so places that agree and places that do not come alternately.
Being in the same place and being the same are not the same thing.
The fringes are evidence that the difference has not gone yet.
Erase it and the ring is plain, and that there were two of them cannot be told.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:7981842eaa66ff84f0bc5e6dfe5bea8a001fbdba4500fe864d41f52c91d91a0d
The same point number and time give the same coordinates.
Trails and the appearance of points depend on rendering settings and the device.
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.What appears when you change the equation? Run and rewrite this equation →