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The growing tip sits in a slot between its two chain-neighbours — the organ 5 places back and the organ 8 places back. Each bar is how far the next organ placed moves when those are removed, against a control sharing the same history. Either alone is a cheap removal: 26.3° and 4.9°, both inside the 45° that separates taking a neighbour from taking anything else. Together they move it 164.1°, against 31.2° for the two effects added, so the interaction is +132.9°. The slot is not two independent walls.

Removing one wall of the slot, then the other, then both. The growing tip sits in a slot between its two chain-neighbours — the organ 5 places back and the organ 8 places back. Each bar is how far the next organ placed moves when those are removed, against a control sharing the same history. Either alone is a cheap removal: 26.3° and 4.9°, both inside the 45° that separates taking a neighbour from taking anything else. Together they move it 164.1°, against 31.2° for the two effects added, so the interaction is +132.9°. The slot is not two independent walls.

Drawn at its defaults, in both walls of the slot. 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

What a plant might be doing

Both walls of the slot

The growing tip sits between its two chain-neighbours. Removing either alone is a cheap removal on all six lattices — 2.3° to 41.7°. Removing both together throws the next organ past the expensive line on three of them, and the interaction runs from −25.8° to +132.9°.

What a plant might be doing

A removal that changes nothing

On one of the six lattices, taking away both walls of the slot moves the next organ 11.953125° — which is exactly, to the last digit, what taking away the larger wall alone moves it. The smaller wall's removal contributes nothing at all when the larger one is already gone.

What a plant might be doing

The rung that two organs wreck

On the coarse 3/5 stem both walls of the slot heal when removed alone and wreck when removed together — and the wreck keeps no rigid hop at all. Two of the six pairs in the design end at a destination single removals almost never reach.

Stems and cones

The ordering on six bands

A hundred and fourteen wrecked cuts across four bands, and at every offset of every one of them the family left standing is the same immediately above the handover and immediately below it. Where the answer does change — on the widest band, at three offsets — it changes somewhere else.

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