OBSERVATION 035
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.
One large body swims slowly.
The body is not drawn.
What is placed there are the spots along its back, and five raised ridges.
The arrangement of spots differs from one individual to the next.
People tell them apart, one by one in the sea, by this pattern.
As the equation of this work has a fingerprint, this one has its spots.
A bend born at the head passes slowly toward the tail.
The tail fin swings last and widest.
One stroke takes twenty seconds.
Reduce the points and the arrangement of spots survives for a while.
The pattern lives in the spacing of the points, not in their density.
At forty points the arrangement can no longer be read.
At one, what is left is the path of a point that was one spot, somewhere on the body.
The size was never inside any one point.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:3ea03dbae83de07ec0c31b9cb613c931aaf3580a6edf7d9ca3c5c0ca3f22c2d4
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
Take it and run it. No randomness and no clock are used, so the same creature appears on your screen too. The equation belongs to no one.