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Reading the Pinch: Composite Curves & Overlap
Interpreting the graphical picture — where the curves come closest, and why that point sets the whole process's minimum energy target.
9 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead
The two-stream cascade in the last lesson is small enough to trace by hand. Run the exact same algorithm on the four-stream process from the composite curves lesson, and you get a result for a genuinely more realistic problem — this lesson gives you that answer, and shows how it connects back to the composite-curve picture.