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Because the rectangle’s sides are orthogonal, a line with a constant 3/4 slope is a geodesic in the flat Euclidean metric induced on the screen. The whisker therefore follows the unique shortest path between its endpoints, tracing the 9/16 curvature of the compactified manifold.
