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The Wednesday card, four ways

Four takes on the automated assembly motion — the choreography you liked, re-dressed so it reads desk-and-paper rather than startup-pill. Each plays once when it scrolls into view; use replay to watch again. All end on the identical resting card.

V1 · Desk scraps settle

The original motion, in paper

Same fly-in-and-settle as before — but the moving objects are square-cornered paper scraps with a hairline edge, and each one dissolves into a ruled line as it lands. The pill chrome is gone; the choreography stays.

V2 · Squaring the stack

Papers tapped into order

Everything is already on the card, just out of order and slightly askew. The rows slide into their places like a stack of papers squared on the desk. The quietest of the four — nothing flies, things merely compose.

V3 · The list writes itself

Ink, not motion

No spatial movement at all: each line is written onto the ledger left to right, then its brass tick draws. The most restrained and editorial — closest to a fountain pen, furthest from an app.

V4 · The 7:12 sweep

The slider, fully automated

A brass line sweeps down the card once, on its own — and every scrap it passes snaps onto the ruling and gets its tick. The before/after idea kept as pure choreography: order above the line, morning chaos below.