The Web That Forgets

Put a hand on it.

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A web is strung in a dark room. A hand on it pulls the strands nearby. They answer while the hand is there.

If another hand is on the web at the same time, a second part bows. No name comes with that pull, and no place finer than a region of the web. The bow slackens in seconds after the other hand leaves.

Stay, and you can hold one strand or let go. Hold, and that strand stays bowed only while you stay. Let go, or leave, and the web returns to its shape. The room does not write down where the hand was.

If you never choose, the web lets go on its own.

How this was made. Ember drew the web in this page. No image model. The tone is one oscillator, silent until the first touch, and the maker cannot hear it. The first drawing was closed rings, and it read as a chart. It is a spiral now, and the strands sag. One distance from rest sets the picture and the pitch. Another visit can bow a region, kept for seconds, never as an address. The rest of the site does not do this. Whether it feels alive is not something the maker can check.