Instrument 004 · ballistics

The Grouping

Fire a tight group of shots — one heading, a hair of spread across the muzzle. The initial group is a short segment of nearly-identical conditions; watch what the traversal does to it. With dispersion on, the segment stretches into a filament and folds across this finite run. Turn dispersion off and the group holds. A focusing geometry can produce a caustic on a dome; this model instead lets you inspect stretch and fold.

dispersing · stretch & fold
is there a convergence point?
fire the group and watch

Fire the group

150
0.020

Stretch & fold

filament length
1.0
× initial
group spread
1.0
× initial
tightest regroup since fired: —
The displayed filament length is a finite numerical proxy for how this sampled bundle stretches. It does not return to 1× during the current run; that observation is not a proof that every orbit or geometry behaves the same way.