Generator

The four cells, and the two measures in each

Rendered here at the parameters it defaults to, with every essay that calls it — which is the same list as the blast radius of changing it.
The four cells, and the two measures in eachRuns of the transform and phrases of the parse, per character, on 8,192 characters arranged four ways. The top row is prose and the bottom is 16 near-copies of one base; the left column is one text and the right is that text cut into 16 documents with a separator between them. Everything the repetition strand measured is the bottom left cell and everything the document strand measured is the top right; the bottom right is the one nothing here had filled. Cutting the repetitive text raises r/n from 0.0638 to 0.0768 — 1.20x — and cutting prose raises it from 0.2996 to 0.3053. Those two factors are the subject of the next plate, and they do not come out in the expected order.one text16 short documentsprosecopies of one baseprose, one textr/n 0.2996z/n 0.1273prose, many short documentsr/n 0.3053z/n 0.1301copies of one base, run togetherr/n 0.0638z/n 0.0354one copy per documentr/n 0.0768z/n 0.04188,192 characters throughoutthe outlined cell is the one that was empty

The four cells, and the two measures in each

Runs of the transform and phrases of the parse, per character, on 8,192 characters arranged four ways. The top row is prose and the bottom is 16 near-copies of one base; the left column is one text and the right is that text cut into 16 documents with a separator between them. Everything the repetition strand measured is the bottom left cell and everything the document strand measured is the top right; the bottom right is the one nothing here had filled. Cutting the repetitive text raises r/n from 0.0638 to 0.0768 — 1.20x — and cutting prose raises it from 0.2996 to 0.3053. Those two factors are the subject of the next plate, and they do not come out in the expected order.

Drawn at 700 × 386, wide on the page. Everything above is what collection-corners returns with no arguments; the caption is the generator's own, computed from the numbers in the drawing rather than written beside it.

8 essays call collection-corners. 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.

Where it is called

Changing this generator changes every one of these figures.

one text16 short documentsprosecopies of one baseprose, one textr/n 0.2996z/n 0.1273prose, many short documentsr/n 0.3053z/n 0.1301copies of one base, run togetherr/n 0.0638z/n 0.0354one copy per documentr/n 0.0768z/n 0.04188,192 characters throughoutthe outlined cell is the one that was empty The data that is not a number

The cell nobody filled

10⁴0.1charactersphrases of the parse, per charactershuffled: 1.45xthe collection: 4.71x4,111 to 65,551 charactersworth 3.24x after the control The data that is not a number

What repetition is worth once the logarithm is gone

051015204060documents, which here is also the copy countbits a characterFM-indexrun-length indexphrase index8,192 characters throughout2665 runs down to 427 The index that replaces the text

The index that does not notice

1101000.1documentsruns of the transform, per characterprose: 1.10xcopies: 1.02x8,192 characters, cutthe control rises further What is taught wrongly

A boundary that costs nothing

051015255075100125documentsdistinct characters the documents end with+7+52+162+293+4+-1+9+19prosecopies of one basethe label is the runsthe cut added128 documents0.15 against 2.31 runs a separator Structures

The price of a boundary is what precedes it

run together1.00xsigma 21 · 5 bitsone separator1.00xsigma 22 · 5 bitsa separator each1.20xsigma 36 · 6 bitsruns 1.00xruns 1.00xruns 1.02x16 documents of 512 characterspacked bits, against running them together The other axis

Two currencies for one separator

prose, many short documents4.31 most frequent3.07 drawn from a documentone copy per document5.75 most frequent1.81 drawn from a documentcopies cut across the boundaries5.81 most frequent1.88 drawn from a documentoccurrences per document holding the pattern16 documents · 6-character patternsall three within a tenth on the drawn pattern What is taught wrongly

One copy per document is one occurrence per document

one text16 short documentsprosecopies of one baseprose, one textr/n 0.2996z/n 0.1273prose, many short documentsr/n 0.3053z/n 0.1301copies of one base, run togetherr/n 0.0638z/n 0.0354one copy per documentr/n 0.0768z/n 0.04188,192 characters throughoutthe outlined cell is the one that was empty What the libraries do

A collection is a construction

The library, page 1 of 5 — where collection-corners sits