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Hyperbolic waves collide on the Poincaré disk. Bright blooms are constructive peaks, dark bands are cancellations. White tracers ride the phase-gradient, threading filaments. SU(1,1)...the set of Möbius moves that preserve the disk’s geometry...steers the beacons. Multiple tempos modulate the spatial frequency.
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