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Spark
The Hunger Games #3. A Granovetter threshold model: every stroke is a person who lights up only when enough of their 24 neighbours already have. Twelve sectors around a centre each have their own temperament, and the centre's thresholds are never reached. One spark; the fire races through the easy sectors, stalls at cautious borders, finds seams. Each person who lights up is recut in ember and turned by the moment it happened, so the order of the uprising becomes the grain of the plate.