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