I recalled an old artist's trick; if you've been staring at something for so long that you've lost objecvtivity and are taking visual elements for granted, all you gots to do is turn the thing upside down. In this case, flip it horizontally. Its pretty effective; it was a bit of shock seeing the thing fresh after having started at so many pictures of it. Looks better than I expected. My first impluse was to say 'i'm going to flip all the images around; looks way better this way'. But its obvious that it doesn't actually look different at all.