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Ringmaker · Definition laboratory

Draw the ring.
Watch it break.

The famous outline is a documented choice, not a natural border. Adjust the Restless Pacific rule and inspect every volcano that moves.

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Smithsonian11
Restless Pacific rule10
Recomputing…
Included by bothSmithsonian onlyRestless Pacific rule onlyExcluded by both
Demonstration subset · live API unavailable

What moved · subduction settings

Every rule
makes an edge.

Smithsonian’s reviewed set and the Restless Pacific rule agree on 9 volcanoes. The useful evidence is at the boundary: what one definition includes and the other leaves outside.

Reproducible result

Definition receipt.

A count without its inputs is only atmosphere. This receipt keeps the source version, rule, result, and fingerprint together.

Baseline
Smithsonian PROF 5.3.6
Restless Pacific rule
subduction settings
Catalog universe
13 Holocene volcanoes
Result
10 included
Fingerprint
fallback:demonstration-subset
Smithsonian method

Map-equivalent evidence

Inspect the membership.

3 volcanoes matching the table filters.
VolcanoComparisonSmithsonianRestless Pacific ruleLast eruptionConvergent boundary
New ZealandSmithsonian onlyIncludedOutside1446191 km
JapanSmithsonian onlyIncludedOutside170799 km
IndonesiaRestless Pacific rule onlyOutsideIncluded2022157 km

Method before myth

Keep the rule
with the result.

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