Use the supplied original top-view illustration as the first frame: two teal schematic droplets with a narrow gap on a fixed muted surface. Lock the camera and preserve the four background corner marks. The two existing droplets slowly move toward each other. Their facing edges first touch at the visible gap; a small connected neck forms there and gradually widens. Continue into one connected, slightly wider droplet and stop. Keep the outline and highlight changes continuous enough to follow the original two regions through their contact. Do not crossfade two transparent circles, cut directly to a replacement blob, add a third droplet, splash, split or zoom the whole image. End with one connected droplet and an unchanged surface. This is a qualitative illustrated connection task, not a fluid simulation or a promise of exact volume or surface-tension behavior.
