What a cap costs, on five collections

What a cap costs, on five collections

The phrase count under a cap, as a multiple of the phrase count without one, against the cap. Every number the cap ladder published came from the generated collection, which is the line marked as such; the real version histories are far steeper. A cap of one costs 35x on fourteen revisions of another against 21x on the model, and the two collections of unrelated documents are flatter than either. The knee — the smallest cap within a twentieth of the free parse — is at 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 respectively, against the four to eight the ladder reported.

Drawn at 700 × 430, wide on the page. Everything above is what cap-real returns with no arguments; the caption is the generator's own, computed from the numbers in the drawing rather than written beside it.

4 essays call cap-real. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about — which is what optcheck and figfill exist to catch.