{
  "$schema": "/scores/schema-v1.4.json",
  "formatVersion": "1.4",
  "scoreVersion": "1.2",
  "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.",
  "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": "Possible futures drift, draw near and change intensity independently. None becomes the chosen outcome.",
      "movements": [
        {
          "target": "r1",
          "periodSeconds": 24,
          "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": 31,
          "turnDegrees": [
            0,
            -4,
            5,
            -2,
            0
          ],
          "scale": [
            [
              1,
              1
            ],
            [
              1.035,
              0.96
            ],
            [
              0.955,
              1.045
            ],
            [
              1.02,
              0.98
            ],
            [
              1,
              1
            ]
          ],
          "presence": [
            1,
            0.92,
            0.55,
            0.85,
            1
          ]
        },
        {
          "target": "r3",
          "periodSeconds": 37,
          "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"
      }
    ]
  }
}