ever-flowing feedback fountains

[mungojelly]

Right now there's still a certain stillness to the web. Ripples
spread across it when you touch it, as a few copies of what you've
said echo on a few different sites or lists, but after a few moments
the ripples die down, and its surface is glassy smooth again. It
takes another human touch to spread any further ripples in echo or
response.
Soon,

Comments

[anhinga_anhinga]

I like this.

It seems though that the majority of patterns might be diluted into each other enough to fall below one-bit resolution...

[mungojelly]

Yeah when you have a lossy feedback loop soon it degrades into being reflections of artifacts. Like that awesome thing that happens when you point a camera at a screen showing the picture the camera is taking: Images quickly swirl into psychedelic blobs. I expect once we have a lot of cameras and screens around there will be a lot of that! But also there will be a lot of longer loops, where an image bounces around many different places, like through various continents, each time around the loop. If you leave a loop alone for a long time it'll slowly settle into a stable feedback pattern, but various people all over the world could interrupt it along the way and change it. It'll be pretty and fun