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A bouquet, opening

The first thing on this shelf that is an object rather than a field. The other five are a sky, a night, a sea, a place and a material — all of them whatever shape the box is, none of them with a near side, a far side or a stem leaving the bottom of the frame. Here for the shelf’s one test: a bouquet is the most screenshotted object there is, and nobody has one that opens. Not Greek, and no amount of naming it in Greek would make it so.

A hundred thousand points in one draw call, and the whole bunch hangs off one expression: every stem is an arc from the same binding point below the frame, and a flower head is not placed at all — it is that arc read at its far end, turned to face the way its own stalk leans. So a head cannot drift off the top of its stem in the wind, and the outer flowers look outward because their stalks do. Four species share one petal: a sheet whose midrib is a circular arc, so it curls in closed form rather than by stepping. A rosette spirals its petals on the golden angle; a daisy folds its rays up as it shuts, which is what a real one does at dusk; a bell that never opens is a bud, the same geometry and not a fifth flower; and a spray of tiny florets fills the space between them, which is what makes it a bouquet rather than a bunch. The camera solves its own distance from the bouquet’s extent every frame, so it is framed on a phone and framed on a hero. Set gate to pointer and the bunch opens as the pointer comes near and shuts as it leaves — proximity rather than hover, because a full-bleed backdrop takes no pointer events at all and a hover listener on it could never fire.