OBSERVATION 025
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 tail is larger than the body.
The tail is made of sixty-four rays. There is no membrane.
The rays do not open from a single point.
They grow alternately left and right along an axis that coils.
So the further out, the wider the gap to the next.
Long and short stand together in bundles.
Two waves make the bundles.
Their speeds differ slightly, so only where they overlap does a ray grow long.
The bundles are not still. They move slowly outward.
The tail swings later than the body.
The further out, the more it coils.
It is still coiling after the swing has ended.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:ab3a5a60e772537c75fd0838d234cf806b1f0d48f398c4b529ebe7f733d612ba
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 →