OBSERVATION 024
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.
Joining the places equally near to three stones.
Around a stone it becomes a ring.
Far from the stones the lines run straight.
Where ring meets ring, a crease forms.
That is the same distance from either stone.
It belongs to neither.
The lines are the same width from beginning to end.
It looks crowded not because the spacing is narrow
but because that is where nearness changes fastest.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:dc866128c6647e224ad29a6ccf8ae50e89e790007137995a34727f09f3e74867
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