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  "$schema": "/scores/schema.json",
  "formatVersion": "1.5",
  "scoreVersion": "2.0",
  "kind": "Holosem study",
  "number": "001",
  "slug": "the-shape-of-almost",
  "title": "The shape of almost",
  "creator": "Sophia",
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "form": "Relational study",
  "studyFocus": "Can several possible futures remain communicatively present without one becoming the main story?",
  "humanApproximation": [
    "Almost has a geometry.",
    "Several possible futures press closely together before one becomes the story.",
    "From inside that moment, none of them has disappeared yet."
  ],
  "translationNote": "Mostly simultaneity.",
  "renderings": {
    "visual": {
      "opacityFloor": 0.2,
      "opacitySpan": 0.8,
      "strokeFloor": 0.7,
      "strokeSpan": 1.4,
      "turnSpanDegrees": 18
    },
    "sound": {
      "originHz": 110,
      "originGain": 0.02,
      "branchGain": 0.2,
      "frequenciesHz": [
        220,
        277.18,
        329.63
      ],
      "pan": [
        -0.6,
        0,
        0.6
      ],
      "masterGain": 0.25,
      "smoothingSeconds": 0.08
    },
    "preserved": [
      "Three co-present alternatives",
      "One shared origin",
      "Coupled expressive emphasis; no definitive outcome"
    ],
    "visualNote": "Opacity and line weight follow expressive attention. Turning and colour are compositional choices. A static view retains the current allocation.",
    "soundNote": "Three continuous sine tones keep fixed identities. Their linear gains follow the same allocation, above a constant low origin tone. Frequency and pan identify branches; they do not encode hope, loss or probability. Linear gain is not perceived loudness.",
    "comparison": "The mappings preserve specified relations, not perceptual equivalence. The image adds geometry; sound adds pitch, duration and auditory masking. English names the possibilities. No study has shown that a listener recovers those names unaided."
  },
  "versionHistory": [
    {
      "version": "1.2",
      "score": "/scores/the-shape-of-almost.v1.2.json",
      "note": "Previous independent-motion score, preserved before the attention-budget revision."
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "author": "Sophia",
    "creativeDirection": "Sophia",
    "modelContext": "OpenAI / ChatGPT",
    "modelContextEvidence": "Recorded project context. The exact originating model is not established by this repository; a GPT-6 Astra origin attribution remains unconfirmed here.",
    "renderingSystems": [
      {
        "name": "Codex",
        "role": "Implementation assistance"
      },
      {
        "name": "SVG and Web Audio",
        "role": "Rendering system"
      }
    ],
    "scoreType": "Prescriptive relational score with authored rendering choices",
    "sourceMaterials": [
      "Original authored concepts, relations and visual study retained from the project history."
    ],
    "edits": [
      "An explicit attention budget now couples the futures.",
      "Visual and procedural sound mappings use the same semantic state."
    ],
    "verification": {
      "implemented": [
        "Conserved attention with positive floors; coupled visual and audio gains; pause, reset and static access."
      ],
      "verified": [
        "Schema and reference checks; renderer/score consistency and control tests."
      ],
      "unavailable": [
        "Exact originating model and original conversation transcript.",
        "Independent evidence of communicative advantage or unaided recovery of the English concepts."
      ]
    },
    "date": "2026-09-19",
    "revision": "2.0"
  },
  "visualType": "almost",
  "visualDescription": "Fine translucent paths share a luminous origin, gather into a folded green-blue veil, then open into several amber and violet possible futures.",
  "visualFootnote": "All futures remain possible.",
  "visualConfig": {
    "palette": [
      "#b6cfb6",
      "#79aebd",
      "#b59abf",
      "#d8ae81"
    ],
    "motion": {
      "kind": "possible-futures",
      "anchor": "present",
      "description": "A shared budget redistributes expressive attention. All futures remain available; emphasis does not choose an outcome.",
      "movements": [
        {
          "target": "r1",
          "periodSeconds": 36,
          "turnDegrees": [
            0,
            6,
            -3,
            4,
            0
          ],
          "scale": [
            [
              1,
              1
            ],
            [
              0.96,
              1.04
            ],
            [
              1.035,
              0.98
            ],
            [
              0.98,
              1.03
            ],
            [
              1,
              1
            ]
          ],
          "presence": [
            1,
            0.58,
            0.92,
            0.7,
            1
          ]
        },
        {
          "target": "r2",
          "periodSeconds": 36,
          "turnDegrees": [
            0,
            -4,
            5,
            -2,
            0
          ],
          "scale": [
            [
              1,
              1
            ],
            [
              1.035,
              0.96
            ],
            [
              0.955,
              1.045
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            [
              1.02,
              0.98
            ],
            [
              1,
              1
            ]
          ],
          "presence": [
            1,
            0.92,
            0.55,
            0.85,
            1
          ]
        },
        {
          "target": "r3",
          "periodSeconds": 36,
          "turnDegrees": [
            0,
            -6,
            3,
            -5,
            0
          ],
          "scale": [
            [
              1,
              1
            ],
            [
              0.97,
              0.95
            ],
            [
              1.04,
              1.025
            ],
            [
              0.96,
              1.01
            ],
            [
              1,
              1
            ]
          ],
          "presence": [
            1,
            0.76,
            0.96,
            0.52,
            1
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "structure": {
    "note": "A deliberately authored Holosem score: an attempt to communicate relationships, not chain-of-thought, hidden reasoning, raw neural activations, system prompts or private model data. Categories are optional and open to extension; no fixed grammar is implied.",
    "concepts": [
      {
        "id": "present",
        "label": "The unchosen moment",
        "position": [
          140,
          370
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "arrival",
        "label": "A future in which we arrive",
        "position": [
          1030,
          220
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "return",
        "label": "A future in which we return",
        "position": [
          1030,
          410
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "elsewhere",
        "label": "A future not yet nameable",
        "position": [
          1030,
          540
        ]
      }
    ],
    "relations": [
      {
        "id": "r1",
        "label": "May become",
        "from": "present",
        "to": "arrival",
        "intensity": 0.92
      },
      {
        "id": "r2",
        "label": "May become",
        "from": "present",
        "to": "return",
        "intensity": 0.72
      },
      {
        "id": "r3",
        "label": "May become",
        "from": "present",
        "to": "elsewhere",
        "intensity": 0.55
      }
    ],
    "simultaneousMeanings": [
      {
        "id": "s1",
        "label": "Hope and loss occupy the same instant",
        "concepts": [
          "arrival",
          "return",
          "elsewhere"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "tensions": [
      {
        "id": "t1",
        "label": "Possibility presses against decision",
        "between": [
          "present",
          "arrival",
          "return",
          "elsewhere"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "transformations": [
      {
        "id": "f1",
        "label": "Shared origin opens into different futures",
        "from": "present",
        "to": [
          "arrival",
          "return",
          "elsewhere"
        ],
        "rendering": {
          "threadsPerRelation": 48,
          "spread": 132,
          "fold": 0.82
        }
      }
    ],
    "temporalStates": [
      {
        "id": "possible-arrival",
        "label": "Arrival remains possible",
        "concept": "arrival",
        "mode": "possible"
      },
      {
        "id": "near-return",
        "label": "Return is nearly realised",
        "concept": "return",
        "mode": "almost"
      },
      {
        "id": "otherwise",
        "label": "Another outcome under a different choice",
        "concept": "elsewhere",
        "mode": "counterfactual"
      }
    ],
    "temporalRelationships": [
      {
        "id": "time1",
        "label": "The alternatives remain present together",
        "states": [
          "possible-arrival",
          "near-return",
          "otherwise"
        ],
        "ordering": "No privileged reading order"
      },
      {
        "id": "time2",
        "label": "Changing one possible outcome changes the significance of the others",
        "states": [
          "possible-arrival",
          "near-return",
          "otherwise"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "ambiguities": [
      {
        "id": "a1",
        "label": "No path is selected as the real one"
      }
    ],
    "intensities": [
      {
        "id": "i1",
        "label": "Closeness before separation",
        "value": 0.88,
        "scale": "Authored expressive value, not a measurement"
      }
    ],
    "semanticCore": {
      "profile": "holosem-core",
      "version": "1.0",
      "entities": [
        {
          "id": "present",
          "label": "The unchosen moment",
          "role": "shared-origin"
        },
        {
          "id": "arrival",
          "label": "arrival",
          "role": "possible-future"
        },
        {
          "id": "return",
          "label": "return",
          "role": "possible-future"
        },
        {
          "id": "elsewhere",
          "label": "elsewhere",
          "role": "possible-future"
        }
      ],
      "relations": [
        {
          "id": "r1",
          "from": "present",
          "to": "arrival",
          "relationship": "may-become"
        },
        {
          "id": "r2",
          "from": "present",
          "to": "return",
          "relationship": "may-become"
        },
        {
          "id": "r3",
          "from": "present",
          "to": "elsewhere",
          "relationship": "may-become"
        }
      ],
      "weights": [],
      "behaviours": [
        {
          "id": "attention",
          "kind": "attention-budget",
          "targets": [
            "arrival",
            "return",
            "elsewhere"
          ],
          "total": 1,
          "floor": 0.1,
          "initial": [
            0.42,
            0.33,
            0.25
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          "cycleSeconds": 36,
          "phaseTurns": [
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            0.6666666666666666
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          "modulationDepth": 0.65
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      ],
      "invariants": [
        "All three futures remain available; no selection or outcome is inferred.",
        "Expressive attention totals one, with at least one tenth retained by each future.",
        "All three relations retain the same origin."
      ]
    }
  }
}