one-offset-across-a-band
Drawn at its defaults, in one band, cut at every rise. It takes no options at all, so every essay calling it gets this exact drawing.
Called by 4 essays
the blast radius of changing it
Every rise of a band
A band is cut at nine rises because the quantity it was built to test is a constant, and a constant is checked at the ends and at the crossing. On the widest band that quantity turned out not to be constant, which makes nine the wrong number. This is all hundred and twenty-six.
Stems and conesThe alternation is not a period
Nine sampled rises gave 8, 4, 8, 4 at one offset of one band, and a period was the obvious thing to look for. At full resolution it is thirteen islands one to three rises wide, with gaps of 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 31, 44 and 48 — and a fitted period buys exactly nothing.
Stems and conesThree offsets, three crossings
The claim the band design rests on is that the survivor does not change where the two contact steps change places. It holds at full resolution: nineteen changes and not one at the handover. Where they are is three different rises, eight, nineteen and twenty-nine below it.
Stems and conesThe offsets that never change
Three of the six offsets that wreck anywhere on the band keep the same family at every rise they wreck at — 98, 22 and 81 rises of the 126. And which offsets wreck at all is a function of the rise, which no reading of a band had drawn.