the nail sheet · gold then silver · ground TARNISH #131416 · title withheld · the ladder frozen beside it
CHI → W1 EARTH · W2 WOOD · W3 METAL · W4 FIRE · W5 WATER feedback rises to W1 · function and flow over beauty
W1
SOURCE
EARTH · command position
idle
Start here — plain English
Your words · the accepted word · what it means
The sheet, claim by claim
▓ Control catches, this build
Toddler corner
Feedback board
W2
CONTRIBUTIONS
WOOD · growth
idle
Plain EnglishWho did what (a judgement). Then the sheet's integers, written in your I-13 and run in your VM first: how many nails a 10 × 10 chessboard holds, how far the nails go in, and the gap between your two exponents. The page recounts; they must agree. The tamper pulls one nail from the page's board; the agreement must break.
I-13 · as run in your VM
VM result · page recompute
Reports to W1
— not run —
W3
1D · THE NAILS SINK
METAL · focus
idle
Plain EnglishOne axis: how many atoms have gone on (log scale). The line is the nail height, from 1.00 down. Gold goes first until the nails reach 0.93; then silver. On your scale gold needs a universe of atoms and silver a thumbnail of the count. The dashed button switches to real atoms and the whole thing lands near 10²²; it has to move, or the scale isn't doing anything.
gold atoms to reach 0.93–
silver atoms for the next 7 units–
nail height now–
Reports to W1
— not run —
W4
2D · HOW FAR THE SHEET REACHES
FIRE · visibility
Plain EnglishA side cut through one row of the sheet: the sheet runs across the middle, above and below it is the space the field reaches into. Orange pushes up, blue down; brightness is strength on a log scale. The white lines mark where the field drops to 1%. Chessboard: about one cell on each side, the + tips top and bottom. The dashed button makes every square +: then it reaches much farther, which it must.
tap or hover the map…
patternchessboard
field down to 1% at–
left at one cell out–
Reports to W1
— not run —
W5
3D · BOTH FACES
WATER · wisdom / flow
idle
Plain EnglishThree axes: the sheet, its 50 nails, the gold and then silver layers on top. W3 only watched the top. A nail is one rigid piece: every bit it sinks on top, it comes out underneath. Press it and watch the bottom tips grow as the top tips shrink.