Hidden In Plain Sound
A loud tone does not make its quiet neighbour quieter. It makes it not exist. This is why MP3 works.
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Days 20 to 9
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Hollow
Add a sound to a copy of itself a millisecond late and specific frequencies vanish, at places you can calculate exactly.
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How Fine Is Your Ear
Two tones, almost the same. Twenty questions later the page knows your pitch threshold to within about ten percent.
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Polite Randomness
The same number of random points twice, one following a single extra rule. Only one of them looks random.
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One Part In A Billion
Two identical pendulums, started a billionth of a radian apart. Watch how long identical lasts.
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Murmuration
Three hundred birds, three local rules, no leader, and the order they reach is deliberately imperfect.
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Silk
Four thousand particles drifting through a noise field, and the one operation that makes it look like fluid instead of sand.
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Shallow Water
Tap the pool. Three lines of stencil, one number that decides whether physics happens or the whole thing detonates.
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Slow Lightning
Particles wandering at random until they stick, growing frost, and two ways of measuring it that disagree by a quarter.
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The Note That Isn't There
Play a chord of upper harmonics with no root, and your ear invents the root anyway.
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Carve And Escape
A maze digs itself out of solid rock, then the same algorithm turns round and walks back out.
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Soft Edges
Six blobs merging and splitting, their outline pulled out of a grid of numbers by a sixteen-case lookup table.