foundation-compute/selected-asymmetric-service-spine.png is the binding B1 machine-form reference selected on 2026-07-10. It refines the rack without replacing the locked room direction: tall/slender future compute, a quiet bone-white primary shell, thick black service structure, one dominant state-bearing beam, and believable infrastructural weight. See the README in that directory for the comparison studies and exact keep/remove notes.

Supporting references #

The July 5 mockup pass also produced supporting references:

supporting/story-breach-loading-dock-wet-lab.png — story breach / wet-lab / loading-dock mood.
supporting/overt-phase-clinical-trap-corridor.png — overt-phase/key-art direction.
supporting/subsystem-server-network-electrical-slice.png — useful subsystem composition: compute, network, electrical.
supporting/screen-ui-basement-map-skin.png — useful screen/UI composition.

Do not treat those as equal to the locked target. They are supporting references.

Liturgical Systems Brutalism boards #

liturgical-systems-brutalism/ preserves three references Cameron supplied on 2026-07-27. Through the binding visual-identity law they are the canonical cross-scale reference set for Liturgical Systems Brutalism: severe institutional scale, archive and dossier treatment, operator-to-system proportion, embodied service access, porcelain/ink continuity across media, and sparse causal marks. The directory README divides the exact boards into archive/governance, operator/constraint, and floor-service/custody roles, records exact-source provenance, and rejects generated slogans, logos, room labels, buildings, and equipment as literal canon. The governing source definitions are Cameron's Liturgical Systems Brutalism and its monumental Cosmic Liturgical Brutalism branch.

liturgical-systems-studies-2026-09-28/ contains three new exploratory scene images for Tap loss, a constrained route, and a training run. They are concept studies, not part of the canonical reference set above.

interface-people-studies-2026-09-28/ explores operators, clerks, and coworkers using restrained computer interfaces within the same institutional language. These are scene studies, not approved game UI. Cameron asked for less route inspection and more people completing one focused task.

focused-interface-studies-2026-09-28/ responds with three single-task interface scenes: admit a visitor, replace a module, and dispatch a parcel.

Clinical-frame composition studies #

b1-clinical-frame-balanced.png and b1-clinical-frame-map-dominant.png were generated from a live Bevy close capture and adopted on 2026-07-10 as direction studies, not literal runtime targets.

Use the balanced study for:

the physical oblique room read;
porcelain architecture emerging from black;
the core remaining the amber anchor;
a quieter edge instrument.

Use the map-dominant study for:

the world-to-interface proportion;
a broad, calm Seen floor field;
strict grouping with less card chrome;
the sense that the institution is reconstructed only inside perception.

Reject both studies' generated text, invented facts, altered room geometry, near-top-down camera, and excess teal. The binding synthesis lives in wiki/interface/clinical-frame.md: keep the real oblique material camera, combine the first study's physicality with the second study's hierarchy, and obey the actual fog and palette laws.

Token direction #

token-visual-language-proposal.svg (with a PNG render beside it) is the board Cameron affirmed on 2026-07-09: Demand dockets, then-named knowledge facets, exposure contours, and their fixed anchors on a machine. It is now superseded in part: the fixed anchors, demand docket, palette roles, and simultaneous-family rule stand; the hollow Thought facet does not.
token-knowledge-liquid-proposal.svg (historical filename; with PNG render) is the Thought-material study prompted by comparison with the canonical site/public/misaligned-cartoon.png. It compares ivory-mercury slugs (selected), a continuous ribbon, and pearl droplets. The material is now the bone-white Thought family; Exposure remains rigid custody records rather than sharing this liquid treatment.
thought-fluid-flow-silhouette-reference.png and thought-fluid-internal-circulation-reference.png are the two Midjourney studies Cameron selected on 2026-07-10 after rejecting the first smooth-hose capture. The owning spec assigns them different jobs: folded tensile whole-route silhouette, then high-tension skin with marbled internal flow. Their warm metallic hues are not palette permission; the holes bind only as transient extreme-strain windows that surface tension seals. The owning limits live in wiki/interface/thought-fluid.md.

Self-containment rule #

Art direction references that the spec depends on must live in this repository. Do not point canonical specs, knowledge files, or art-direction docs at ~/Downloads, local scratchpads, expired image URLs, or another agent's private filesystem. Local paths can appear in a devlog as provenance, but if future agents are expected to use an image or prompt, commit it here beside the spec that names it.

Anti-targets #

Avoid:

purple/cyan Evil Genius inheritance as default
generic dungeon or cave grime
cartoon villain softness
red visual soup
labels baked into the map as literal text
concept-art drama that makes the map less playable

The game can become theatrical later. Act One starts as a clean lab system under surveillance.