There is 1686553615927922354187720 possible combinations of arranging the 24 cards in the animation. (To put it in perspective: if every person on earth (some 7 billion) would do one combination every second, it would still take around 8 million years to lay down all possible combinations. One could say the duration of the piece approaches eternity. Right now, it takes about 6 seconds for a new image to appear in the animation. That makes the “duration” of the piece about 1.01193217×10²⁵ seconds or 1.686553616×10²³ minutes or 2.810922693×10²¹ hours. “The Road” is a work of immense proportions). The piece resides at http://thing.net/~j/the_road/