OBSERVATION 026
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.
A wave crosses the wing, from root to tip.
The further out, the later.
The very edge is the latest, and swings widest.
Front and back are not moving separately.
One wave is passing through.
One beat takes close to seven seconds.
In that time the body hardly advances.
What advances is a slower current, one that takes twenty seconds to come round.
The tail does not beat.
It only follows the body's motion, a little late.
Stop it and the wing is only a surface.
It is a creature only while the wave is crossing.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:479e0804bcbec5ac8a66d53c6f99cd9926a71b474a03cfd8e3ff38b21f5934b6
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 →