Instrument 006 · coordinates as terrain

The Sounding Table

The data determines the terrain. Height shows the coupling coordinate α; the peaks approach the ceiling at α=2 without reaching it. There is no physical radar return. Orbit to move the sensor around the table (SAR), or raise K to turn the table beneath the sensor (ISAR). Click a point to read it. Three ghosted lanes then show inferred paths: evolve, hold and dissolve. These are possibilities without assigned probabilities. The read stops when it converges; that does not make it complete.

drag · click to read
Read a coordinate at a point

Situation display

blipnow
trackbehind
predictedinferred
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d = —  ·  β = 6/23
α vs looks
Click a point, then press Converge

The read

SAR
ISAR
0.15

Limits of the read

Data · summed directly into the field, without a physical return
Support boundary · no terrain is composed beyond the data
Basepoint · the instrument cannot read its own anchor
Predicted track · possible paths for the substrate, without forecasts or probabilities
α=2 · As d grows, α approaches 2 from below.