OBSERVATION 039
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.
It is shaking itself.
A wave of twist is born at the head and leaves through the tail.
Each ring of the spine is turned to a different angle.
The fur stands out by centrifugal force only at the instant its speed is greatest.
On rings the wave has already passed, the fur is lying down again.
The hanging ears are swung late, after the head.
The tail is swung last, and widest.
The four legs brace and do not move.
The upper body carries all of it.
Reduce the points and the standing fur goes first.
At six hundred and twenty-five, a spine of rings each turned to its own angle remains.
At forty, only the beat of the shudder.
At one, the path of a point that was a single hair — turned, raised, laid down.
A dog does not think before it shakes off water.
The head begins, and the body is simply caught up in it, in order.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:90bf74d425fc79e1bca6c3d1d6499ad53a62baf134489e3382a1590ecf8141dc
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.