# Fragmented visual memory / source-bound spatial signal map grammar

Read this reference before every generation. It resolves generic abstraction, template leakage, and oversized circuitry. It is a method reference, not a fixed visual template.

## 1. Top panel: large fragments and unstable memory must be visible

The top is not a filter or a tiny icon. Its atmosphere comes from evidence-led paper and pigment construction:

- large irregular geometric fragments follow the source carrier;
- overlapping paper planes and translucent layers create shallow depth;
- worn pigment, printed texture, dry-brush gaps, and occasional metallic passages reveal construction;
- displaced silhouettes and interrupted seams destabilize the subject without losing its scale;
- quiet paper/sky regions preserve the source's largest pauses and brightest opening;
- opaque facets carry the source's body, architecture, vegetation, material, shadow, or weight.

Use at least three edge behaviors: clean cut, worn/broken print, and translucent/soft overlap. Build shallow depth through overlapping planes, occlusion, and scale shifts. A uniform edge language, generic collage, or realistic subject rendering fails.

### Cubist decomposition

Cubist influence means multiple partial readings of one subject:

- change the angle or value of adjacent planes;
- shift a key feature slightly without duplicating the subject;
- show front and side information in a controlled overlap when the source supports mass or gaze;
- interrupt silhouette continuity;
- repeat a source rhythm as facets, not as extra literal objects.

Keep finite count and subject scale faithful. A finite group may become a fractured sequence, but never add duplicate subjects or unrelated symbols.

### Top rejection examples

Reject when:

- the result is a neat vector mosaic;
- rectangles merely trace the photograph;
- the subject is complete and only the background is abstract;
- the subject reads as a realistic animal, face, or scene;
- a blur or watercolor filter replaces intentional smear;
- decorative brush marks ignore the source direction;
- the palette becomes fashionable instead of source-derived.

## 2. Bottom panel: spatial relationship before map notation

Build in this order:

1. place the source's dominant masses, subjects, gaps, and count as softened fields or partial landmarks;
2. preserve at least two identity echoes in the observed positions;
3. draw one source-derived flow connecting, passing, encircling, or separating them;
4. add adaptive geometric pictograms, stations, and transfer points only where source relationships justify them;
5. add sparse star points, dotted chains, small rings, and fading particles to express duration, gaze, drift, or distance;
6. add chip-like stepped traces, terminal pads, paired buses, and right-angle transfers only as a sparse secondary accent when they clarify source intervals, barriers, or paths;
7. keep chip language at roughly 5–20% of the bottom; never use a stock full-field PCB layout.

Do not start with a generic grid, fixed route, repeated constellation, or reusable pictogram set and try to decorate it with source motifs afterward.

### Connection strength test

Cover the middle photograph and ask:

- Can I still infer the number and approximate placement of the main subjects?
- Is the dominant direction or structural carrier still present?
- Do the largest gap and densest cluster occur in source-related places?
- Are at least two palette/material cues source-specific?
- Can every large mark be explained from the photograph?

Require at least four yes answers. Otherwise regenerate from the relationship plan.

### Transit without schematic

Metro feeling comes from:

- a route that travels through the frame;
- meaningful stops and intervals;
- one or two branches;
- transfer moments where source relationships cross;
- local density and long pauses;
- a sense of arrival, separation, recurrence, or passage.

It does not require a rectangular grid, uniform station spacing, labels, legends, or literal municipal geography.

### Constellation without outer space

Star feeling comes from:

- varied point size and brightness;
- short chains rather than uniform scatter;
- thin rings and fading halos in source light colors;
- clusters around meaningful anchors;
- sparse drift through quiet zones.

Avoid black cosmic backgrounds, nebulae, lens flares, starbursts, mystical glyphs, and random galaxy decoration unless the source photograph actually contains the night sky.

### Chip-language boundary

Treat electronic marks as a deliberate but bounded secondary language. The bottom fails immediately if any of these dominate:

- PCB or motherboard layout;
- processor-like rectangles;
- dense pin arrays;
- solder-pad repetition;
- engineering symmetry;
- technical labeling;
- neon circuitry or generic cyberpunk styling;
- perspective hardware.

A photograph with a lattice may justify rectilinear echoes, stepped traces, terminal pads, and transfer nodes. The carrier must still soften, break, curve, fade, or dissolve into flow; it must not become a complete circuit substrate. Other photographs may require mostly curved routes, broad fields, or sparse symbols instead.

## 3. Legacy-example routing

The bundled examples are partial method references. Use them selectively:

- `02-water-triptych.JPG`: useful for source-derived flow and reflected light; ignore any overly schematic line treatment.
- `07-leaves-triptych.JPG`: useful for palette continuity and retained leaf relationships; simplify its technical density.
- `08-bamboo-triptych.JPG`: useful for vertical cadence and breathing space; make routes more fluid and less diagrammatic.
- `09-tulips-triptych.JPG`: useful for recognizable bottom echoes and growth paths; reduce metro-diagram regularity.
Never borrow a bundled example's subject, landmark, palette, route geometry, node shape, pictogram, layout, or symbol. Every new photograph must generate a new decomposition and map structure from its own evidence.

No bundled lower panel is an exact target for this version.

## 4. Weighted review

Score each item `0–2`. Require `14/20` and no zero on items 1, 2, 6, or 7.

### Top

1. source count and carrier
2. large source-derived fragment field
3. varied cut/print/soft edge behavior
4. displaced geometric subject reconstruction
5. controlled displacement/overlap
6. recognizable identity anchors
7. source palette and light
8. subject-context integration
9. large recognizable but incomplete subject structure
10. restraint: no vector mosaic, filter, text, or reference leakage

### Bottom

1. source count and relative placement
2. perceptible dominant relationship
3. recognizable source echoes
4. source-derived fields and material cues
5. primary flowing route
6. transit continuity and meaningful stations
7. constellation depth and controlled drift
8. gaps and density distribution
9. chip/rectilinear language remains sparse and source-specific
10. restraint: no PCB, generic network, outer-space spectacle, text, or reference leakage
