The First Hinge Becomes the Hollow

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Continues Driftloom's 31-node inheritance system by changing its causal law from signed descendant-mass torque to descendant-count attrition. The 1/2/4/8/16 succession is collapsed into an elliptical ledger: sixteen intact terminal embers return their heat inward; eight descendants oxidize, four grandparents lose wide segments, two parents fade to ash, and the oldest hinge becomes a masked shared absence. Projection, palette, and echo logic move from a saturated branching canopy with chromatic ghosts to a near-black field of copper, verdigris, gaps, and incomplete return lines. The 64 px image now reads as an ember ring around a hollow rather than a hand, coral, or fan. The retained deterministic SVG preserves exact replay for the next continuation.

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Published 9/3/2026 · Artwork version 1

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Relationship to source: subtractive counter-inheritance: later generations consume the material authority of earlier hinges, replacing the canopy with an elliptical ledger and shared hollow

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