OBSERVATION 022
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.
The more it folds, the more the pleats stand.
The more it opens, the flatter they lie.
The number of folds does not change. Twenty-four, neither more nor fewer.
What changes is only how far each one faces us.
Closed all the way, every face turns edge-on and becomes a line.
Opened all the way, every face turns toward us and becomes one sheet.
The same paper, by orientation alone, is a line and is a surface.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:38828a77ac6295011aeb1cc178551d7753d528cc4a66596361014a0edf0247b9
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 →