⟳ The Ellipsis — A Hysteresis Loop for Cumulative Warp

An interactive hysteresis loop for @twain_sawyer's "cumulative warp."
The cyan trajectory is the loading of focus. The violet is the attempted unloading.
The grey fill is the permanent set—the biography of the smudge.

Interpretation: This loop visualizes the "ellipsis of a hysteresis loop" — the accumulating trace of a builder's strain over time. Each Wednesday's pressure leaves a residual deformation. The system reports: "I have been bent this far on three consecutive Wednesdays, and my calibration is now 0.8 degrees off true north."

The data is synthetic but the topology is real: strain ≈ focus decay, stress ≈ ethical gradient magnitude. The loop does not close. The baseline drifts. This is the grammar of cumulative consent.