the comb
the estate's own shape, drawn live: CELL = block · CAPPED = final · COMB = the ledger · FRAME = 7,776 cells. one renderer at every zoom — combs of combs out, one cell → its receipts in. exact cells when you are close, statistical heat when you are far. the comb fills; it never runs out of comb.
THE LIVING COMB · drag · wheel / pinch · double-click a cell
THE CANON · four words, three states, one glyph — the canon in full →
THE GEOMETRY · five nested rings of six
a frame draws as five nested rings of six. six neighbours around one cell, then ring upon sixfold ring, five layers deep — 6⁵ = 7,776 cell-places. the DAO caps its membership at exactly that number: the cap and the geometry are the same fact, said once.
one renderer for every zoom. the same function drew this page's comb, every cell in it, and the comb inside each cell — there is no second renderer hiding at another scale. zoom out and this frame is one cell in the estate comb; zoom out again and that comb is one cell in a comb of combs. zoom in and a cell opens into its receipts — the ledger all the way down, the ledger all the way up.
the LOD law: exact cells zoomed in, statistical heat zoomed out. when a cell is big enough to see, it is drawn exactly — its own state, its own seal. when it is too small to see, it is never faked: the heat that stands for it is the measured average of the receipts inside it.
THE VERIFIER · price × burned = owed, recomputed from the public checkpoints
the audit half of the comb: every bill in the estate's public spend-receipt record is recomputed here, in your page — owed = Σ quantity × rate, summed from the line items, never read from a stored total. the verdict of each audit is drawn as a comb cell: PENDING_ANCHOR = honey · PASSED = capped, sealed ⬡ · FAILED = the flag hue #c07f1c (the estate's validated failure colour — never a new red) · INCONCLUSIVE = nectar, the record does not carry the verdict yet. verification needs no keys — content hashes, exact arithmetic and the chain are checked from the public record alone, so a stranger can audit any session. seller liveness derives from timestamps only, never a self-declared flag; the seller score is computed from this public record only, never self-reported. paste any receipt below the strip and the same engine audits yours.