Visual identity (clinical gore: precision-lab brutality, near-monochrome palette, sterile amber as machine presence, blood crimson as danger and consequence). The public splash image is now the identity plate for the website and rendered design corpus (interface/site.md). World art is flat materials under light — solid palette colors, emissive for machine presence, no image textures (interface/flat-materials.md). Iterate new procedural meshes in the asset tester (misaligned-assets) before wiring them into Bevy. Iterate dynamic Thought-liquid and Exposure-dust treatments in the separate effects lab (misaligned-effects); its renderer is shared package code, not a disposable prototype. The Pixel Lab generation pipeline was removed 2026-07-08; git history has it. Direction notes live under assets/reference/art-direction/ (not runtime art). Placeholders, if any return, are tracked in this directory — not silently reused (design law: "Justification and legibility").