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clustercrabs-v3b
A top-down floor plan of a concert stage: a grand-piano outline seen from above with its harp of strings, overlaid by a tessellated grid of identical small clockwork crabs in marching formation, each tagged with a direction arrow, ringed by a coordinate ruler and a tracker legend. The swarm reads as one cellular field crossing the instrument, kasakasa, a minimap of vermin playing by occupation.
The plate
Fig. 194 across, 53 down.
The grid itself
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┌─ PLAN · STAGE A ─ top-down ─ scale 1:cell ─────────────── CLUSTERCRABS / swarm ─┐
│ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T │
├01─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .-""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""-. ┌LEGEND──┐ │
│ ,' GRAND PIANO · lid open · viewed from above · harp below '. │ ▟ crab │ │
│ 02 ╱│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│╲ │ → gait │ │
│ ╱ │║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│ ╲ │ · key │ │
│ | │║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│ the 230 strings, seen end-on │║│║│║│║│║│║│ | │ ░ felt │ │
│ 03| │║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│║│ | └────────┘ │
│ | '─────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────' | │
│ 04| soundboard│ rosette | tempo 132 │
│ | ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ │ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ | row 06 │
│ 05| ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ │ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ | ord 02 │
│ | ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ │ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ | │
│ 06| formation α · 11 units │ formation β · 12 units | occupancy │
│ | ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ │ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ | ████░ 78%│
│ 07| ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ │ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ | │
│ | ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ │ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ | k a s a │
│ 08| │ | s a k a │
│ | ←▟ ←▟ ←▟ counter-march │ counter-march ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ | k a s a │
│ 09| ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ │ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ | │
│ | ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ │ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ | vector → │
│ 10| .---------------------.│.---------------------. | mean E │
│ | | each ▟ = 1 clockwork ││ crab · 6 leg-hammers | | drift +x │
│ 11| | strikes 1 string per ││ cell per 0.3s · kasa | | │
│ | '---------------------'│'---------------------' | no score │
│ 12| ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ │ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ | no hand │
│ | ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ │ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ | no will │
│ 13| ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ │ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ ▟→ | │
│ | the field advances key-by-key · the music is where they ARE | │
│ 14 '──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────' │
│ ◄──────────────── stage left ─────────┼───────── stage right ──────────► │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ N ▲ occupied = sounding · empty = rest · the score is the floor itself │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─ SECTION ⟂ A-A · elevation · same swarm seen edge-on ───────────────────────────┐
│ ▟ ▟ ▟ ▟ ▟ ▟ │
│ lid ╱""""""""""""""|"""""|"""""|"""""|"""""|"""""|""""""""""""""""""""""╲ │
│ ╱ ▟ ▟ ▟ | | | | | | ▟ ▟ ▟ ▟ ╲ │
│ ────●────────────────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴────────────────────────●── │
│ strings ║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║║ │
│ ════════════════════════════ soundboard ═══════════════════════════════════ │
│ ╲║╱ ╲║╱ ╲║╱ ╲║╱ ╲║╱ ╲║╱ leg-clamps │
│ ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ cast-iron frame ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ │
│ pedals ⊏┐ ⊏┐ ⊏┐ una corda · sostenuto · damper · none of them pressed │
│ the side view confirms the plan: they are everywhere on it · kasa kasa │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
╔═ TELEMETRY ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ units 46 · sounding 36 · resting 10 · mean-gait E+x · collisions 0 · cond. NULL ║
║ ▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟▟ · · · · · · · · · · · · 78% floor sounding ║
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