If a continuous infinite array of cubic cells of space is considered any changes to the cells resulting from superimposition will be constrained by the condition that the volume of the continuum must remain constant.

Nothing can be lost to or gained from elsewhere. The superimposition of cells is therefore ruled out.

The groups of cells illustrated above should be considered to be part of an infinite continuum. Any loss of volume is compensated by changes to adjacent cells that exist outwith the visible group. As the space must remain continuous any change in the condition of any cell will be reciprocated by changes in the adjacent cells.

Ideally the action and reaction should be sequential, the consequence being a transmission of distortion through the network. In the examples that follow these changes will, for simplicity, be made simultaneously.

In some of the following Animations certain cells have been omitted to increase clarity.