Gradient walk

Conflict Style: Western Combat → Kishōtenketsu

Western Combat 0 → 1 Kishōtenketsu

12 works, one per band of Conflict Style, chained for the smoothest structural ascent — each step is the smallest possible shape mutation that still climbs the axis.

  1. Stanislaw Lem, 1965
    Conflict Style score 0.20
    start
  2. Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
    Conflict Style score 0.30
    step distance 1.5009
    agrees most onConflict StyleThreat Scale
  3. Colin Greenland, 1990
    Conflict Style score 0.35
    step distance 1.5050
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  4. William Gibson, 1993
    Conflict Style score 0.38
    step distance 0.4253
    Protagonist FatePacing
  5. William Gibson, 2007
    Conflict Style score 0.48
    step distance 0.5222
    Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
  6. Octavia E. Butler, 2005
    Conflict Style score 0.52
    step distance 0.4040
    Time StructureProtagonist Fate
  7. Vernor Vinge, 2006
    Conflict Style score 0.55
    step distance 0.3736
    Threat ScaleTime Structure
  8. Joan D. Vinge, 1980
    Conflict Style score 0.65
    step distance 0.4742
    Time StructurePrice Type
  9. Ted Chiang, 2002
    Conflict Style score 0.68
    step distance 0.3452
    Protagonist FatePrice Type
  10. Ted Chiang, 2002
    Conflict Style score 0.78
    step distance 0.4119
    Price TypeThreat Scale
  11. Ted Chiang, 2019
    Conflict Style score 0.80
    step distance 0.4731
    Conflict StylePacing
  12. Stanislaw Lem, 1971
    Conflict Style score 0.85
    step distance 0.2988
    Price TypeThreat Scale

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