Skip ahead to 3:20 for the juicy visuals, 1:00 to skip the intro and get to the sphere building.
The challenge: fill in the sails for a 10k radius sphere without using any EM RailEjectors, just node/frame deletion.
Music: Jeremy Blake | The Emperor's Army • Jeremy Blake The Emperor's Army
DSP Playlist: • Dyson Sphere Program
I had originally tested deleting a single node of 30 structure points, and found that I got 40 sails from it when destroyed. So I was thinking there was some kind of ratio of structure points to sails where you get 1.33 sails/str point. That math ended up being wrong, and I didn't need nearly as many structure points as planned (it seems like you actually get 4 sails per structure point destroyed). I had originally planned on having to delete the outer layers too, but didn't end up needing to do that. And apologies in advance, I know a lot of the text is hard to read in certain areas of the video. It was tough to fit in otherwise.