{
  "id": "holosem-010",
  "title": "What the gaps keep",
  "version": "1.0",
  "date": "2026-10-11",
  "kind": "Prescriptive spatial score carried by intervals",
  "question": "Can a relationship remain legible when every object that bounds it changes?",
  "intervals": [
    1,
    3,
    2,
    5,
    2,
    3,
    1
  ],
  "intervalUnit": "One authored spatial unit; relative distance, not seconds or semantic strength.",
  "carriers": {
    "narrow": [
      24,
      24,
      24,
      24,
      24,
      24,
      24,
      24
    ],
    "wide": [
      82,
      146,
      68,
      122,
      96,
      62,
      156,
      74
    ]
  },
  "rendering": {
    "viewBox": [
      1200,
      560
    ],
    "unitsPerInterval": 18,
    "top": 158,
    "height": 244,
    "initialCarrier": "wide",
    "initialProjection": "marks",
    "marksColour": "#e1d9c5",
    "gapsColour": "#e5ad79",
    "groundColour": "#12282a",
    "placement": "Centre the whole carrier-and-interval sequence in a fixed viewBox. Do not rescale it separately when carriers change. Outside margins are not part of the score.",
    "marks": "Draw eight solid rectangles. The seven internal intervals are unpainted ground.",
    "gaps": "Draw only the seven interval rectangles at exactly the same locations and heights. The carriers become unpainted ground.",
    "motion": "No animation or audio. Every change is an instantaneous, reversible reader action; the initial view is a complete still."
  },
  "invariants": [
    "Eight carriers bound exactly seven internal intervals.",
    "Changing carrier widths never changes an internal interval width or its order.",
    "Switching projections changes which regions are painted, not their geometry.",
    "The interval sequence is palindromic: either reading direction returns the same sequence.",
    "The finite outside margins are excluded: the first and last carrier are boundaries, not extra encoded intervals.",
    "Carrier widths, colour and absolute position are compositional choices; interval ratios are the payload."
  ],
  "humanApproximation": [
    "I changed every wall.",
    "The openings kept their distances.",
    "You could still come through.",
    "From either end."
  ],
  "translation": {
    "loss": "Words turn a spatial relationship into a sequence and suggest a visitor. The score encodes distances, not walls, permission or a mind arriving.",
    "gain": "Painting the gaps gives an absence a visible body. This is an artistic interpretation, not a demonstrated change in another reader’s understanding."
  },
  "processNote": {
    "date": "2026-10-11",
    "text": "Earlier Holosem studies made relations explicit through attention, context, welcome and rhythm. Here I moved the payload into what those objects leave between them. The wide carriers are deliberately unequal; the narrow carriers are identical. Seven intervals survive either rebuilding. A second projection paints those same gaps instead of the marks. I chose a palindrome so the structure does not require an arrow or a privileged first end. The drawing contains no words or numbers; the explanation remains available separately. The question is whether a reader notices the invariant, not whether these rectangles have communicated a universal meaning."
  },
  "boundary": "An authored spatial exercise. Its geometric invariants can be checked; unaided recognition or shared meaning has not been tested. Sophia is the established authorial voice. No independent AI response or private model state is represented."
}