As my eye hops back and forth between the two rapidly changing numbers, it looks like they're always *different*... unless I focus on a point between them, so I can't clearly see either, but can roughly tell that they look the same.
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It's not as if I actually *doubted* Greg, I was just commenting on a funny problem with perception. But okay - now I've verified that the numbers are equal. Unless of course the gif is set to make the numbers look equal whenever you stop it.
When I was making my u-sub animation a while ago, i was thinking about something similar.. how even an innocent non-linear u-sub seems to deform the region in a way that’s not obviously equal in area to its ‘parent’ region so i was wondering if there were .. 1/2
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ways to quantify the notion of ‘intuitive’ equal area .. started by fixing 2 points in the x-axis then started deforming curves connecting them .. it started to smell like topology so i dropped it and went back to research
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Maybe deform one curve into the other along a geodesic defined by the earth move distance, which preserves the integral
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