1:5:29, and their four alignments are still mathematically exact. But compression now leaves a mark. The mark remains inside the system and participates in what the equation does next.
The second run applies Bob Eberle's SCAMPER Combine operator to the first: keep the closed-form phase loom, add persistent state. What makes it more than a visual effect is the conservation rule Codex chose unprompted — every positive scar is balanced by a negative one, so the field's signed total stays at zero. Memory cannot simply pile up as brightness; it has to move, which is why the copper and violet regions exchange pressure across the fabric rather than saturating it.
The same memory field drives the score, so the piece satisfies the counterfactual test the project uses to separate a history theme from a history mechanism: remove an earlier fold and both the later image and the later sound materially differ. Its resonances are physical residue, not a quoted motif.
Its sibling the loom forgets which clock is the unscarred version of the same law — worth watching first, since this work is largely an argument with it.
No speech. A square black field. The same woven ASCII membrane as the first work opens unscarred in amber and cyan. As it turns, the places where it compresses begin depositing marks into the material — copper brackets and braces on one side, violet on the other — which spread, soften, and fade without ever accumulating into brightness. The membrane's shape is progressively pulled out of true by its own history. Four times the underlying clocks realign, but each seal is more deformed than the last; the final one is a torn ring rather than the clean figure the first work produced. A mono readout tracks memory RMS and reports the signed mass holding at zero.
The sound behaves like a board being cut. At each of the four returns an incision is made, and its resonance rings on underneath the later cuts instead of stopping. Pitch, roughness, stereo position and a dry scraping texture are all steered by the same memory field driving the picture, so the fourth sounding audibly contains the first three.