The gap between chips was one-sided: the previous chip tapered out to a
point onto the page, but the next one started on a flat edge. Both faces
now angle the way the path flows — the seam is two cells, a taper out and
the same point notched back inward out of the next chip's fill, with a
sliver of bare page between them. It is the notch a wrapped line already
opened on, so a fold now looks exactly like the seam it interrupted.
The composer's suggestion list could show one node twice. The evidence
graph keeps a hop hash it can't pin down as its own vertex — a 1-byte "3d"
matching two contacts stays "3d", apart from the "3d63c6429436" its wider
sightings landed on — and it is right not to guess; but once the name
resolver names them, they are one row drawn twice. They now fold onto the
longer id with their readings pooled, so the row's sample count and median
SNR describe the whole node. Merging takes both a shared name and a shared
prefix, so two unnamed hashes never fold and neither do two same-named
nodes on unrelated keys.
Folding the stub away must not fold its links away with it, so a step off
the merged node gathers from every id it reads as — otherwise merging would
quietly cost the composer whatever was only ever heard under the stub. Name
lookup and that alias walk are both memoized: they now run over the graph
on the way to each repaint, and neither the topology nor the resolver moves
while a composer is open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5
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