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Hi Zeni & Zeni, I'm Xen... eh... Okay, this bit was way funnier in my head, but the greetings still stand, keep making awesome things and being friendly/supportive!

Not much! The hardest part over ~3 hours was making the masks for all of the individual stocks. I used sampleImage() to map the opacity of each to pixels on Bad Apple.

I use bluesky muted and I was legitimately confused by how you managed to arrange all these stocks such that they were rising and falling contiguously in these strange patterns.

Why do color changes always appear in clusters that move throughout the diagram? What makes the cluster move across the diagram in such an organic manner?

Could be that the stocks are arranged with neighbors in categories, tech at upper left, banking at mid right, etc. etc. so when categories of business are going in and out of favor with the news, neighboring blocks are flipping green/red. On the other hand, I could be utterly, completely wrong.

It probably is, but what determined the proximity / order of the different categories in the chart? After all they "guessed" right and the neighboring categories seem to interact with one another.

its showing the video bad apple. fairly famous video for "being able to play on anything", and people making it happen in weird yet creative ways like by literally lighting up a physical circuit board, or by shaping arcs in tesla coils