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The first diagram was just a sphere. Single light source. No shadows shifting on their own.
She couldn't answer. Because every night, the printed page moved again. A shadow deepened. A reflection twisted. And one morning, her Wacom tablet drew a single line by itself—a perfect, weightless curve she had never intended.
Her roommate had whispered about it: "There's a PDF floating around. Scott Robertson's rendering book. The full thing."