I will talk about the behaviour of gluon scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM near kinematical corners coined Origins where maximally-helicity-violating amplitudes are expected to be exactly Gaussian in the logs of the cross ratios and exactly predictable. In part 1, I will recall how much is known about this behaviour for the 6-gluon amplitude and interpret the result as a sort of quantum area convoluting the minimal surface TBA data with an effective coupling constant, known as the tilted cusp anomalous dimension. In part 2, I will present a generalization to any number of gluons and explore (some bit of) the emerging parterre of Origins. If time permits, I will discuss applications to scattering amplitudes in the null limit where all two-particle Mandelstam vanish simultaneously. The talk is based on a work in progress with Lance Dixon, Yu-Ting Liu and Georgios Papathanasiou. ---- Part of the London Integrability Journal Club. If you are a new participant please register at integrability-london.weebly.com. The link will be emailed.