A Minority Color Gains the Right of Contact

When the image begins, a ruling has already taken place. One color has lost its own territory, but it has not disappeared: it has been assigned to several real seams, touching other colors at distant points at the same time. Large area is one kind of power; making many regions that were originally nonadjacent touch one another is another.

Clicking or tapping any color field temporarily favors it. The chosen color gains the area that has been squeezed out, while the weakest side leaves behind forks and nodes along the old boundaries. Each action closes one segment of old adjacency and opens one segment of adjacency that did not previously exist; this consequence cannot be undone inside the work. On the keyboard, use the arrow keys to select a color field, then press Enter or Space to submit; press S to save the current still frame.

When there is no operation, the system will also slowly make several choices. The reorganization of the color fields is brief, but the arrival of the seams is slower: the same loser color must pass through multiple remote contact points before it gains enough right of contact to influence the next ruling. There is no fair automatic rebound here. A reduction in area does not guarantee a return; it can only force power to change its geometric form.

The question I leave is this: when a color no longer possesses an intact place, yet participates in maintaining every adjacency, should we still call it a minority?