# Visual Constitution

## Purpose

The Oracle is one family of deep-space instruments: strange, lucid, warm, and alive. Visual richness must clarify the central mechanism rather than compete with it.

## Invariants

- Every Tile is a true rounded-square object with midnight enamel, warm-metal cloisonné, one restrained class accent, a dominant central symbol, and four cardinal registration points.
- One silhouette or mechanism carries the primary meaning. Ornament may support hierarchy but may not invent a second subject.
- Lighting is shared: warm upper-left key, narrow cool reflected edge, restrained occlusion, and no atmospheric bloom that destroys contour.
- Art contains no words. Titles, evidence states, sources, and safety notices are live interface text.
- No photobashing, muddy dithering, random occult decoration, or untraceable borrowed imagery.

## Production Rules

- Begin with the card’s class, semantic kernel, evidence mode, and visual prohibited list.
- Draw the central mechanism in monochrome before material rendering; reject it if it is confused with six neighboring Tiles.
- Apply class border grammar, then enamel and metal passes, then restrained accent and depth.
- Export a lossless 2048 master, derived PNG sizes, a thumbnail proof sheet, and metadata record.

## States, Scale, and Accessibility

- Meaning and class remain legible at 96, 256, 512, 1024, and 2048 pixels.
- Selected, hover, focus, disabled, and high-attention states add interface contours outside the master art; they never destructively recolor the source.
- No state, class, claim, or evidence condition depends on color alone; accessible live text supplies title, class, evidence, and safety information.

## Quality Gate

- [ ] Silhouette is recognizable without title at 96 pixels.
- [ ] Class border is structurally correct and not merely color-coded.
- [ ] One light direction, clean alpha, no embedded type, and no clipped studs.
- [ ] Grayscale, contrast, and six-neighbor confusion tests pass.
- [ ] Rights and provenance record is complete.

## Rights and Provenance

Every asset must be original or used under documented permission. Record card ID, prompt or source file, creator/tool, model version where relevant, date, dimensions, color profile, source references, rights status, and checksum. Franchise-derived entries use critical symbolic abstraction and may not reproduce protected logos, characters, costumes, frames, screenshots, or production art. Sacred and community-held imagery requires context and authority; do not turn it into generic decoration.
