Labs
The playground — working prototypes where motion, material, and identity get explored before they ship.
Labs are working prototypes — self-contained HTML sketches where an idea gets pressure-tested before it
earns a place in the system. Nothing here is a shipping component; this is where the living side of Lumen
gets explored out loud. Every study now has its own page carrying provenance frontmatter — status
(exploration · parallel-direction · promoted · retired), birth date, tags, and the artifact it fronts.
Not the package
These are experiments, not API. When a lab idea graduates it lands in Components,
Content, or Brand as a real, tokenized piece — the labs stay the sketchbook.
(The Loader's six channel rhythms and the
HaloMark made the jump; the
ontology map graduated into live tooling; the zoo keeps the rest.)
Direction — the vellum plates
A parallel art direction, built by probe — paper first, four circadian registers, six colour families from Werner's Nomenclature, and the hand. The ruling between it and the shipped Solar/iris language is deliberately open.
The lab notebook
The direction's working memory — the Law, decisions, tokens, probe queue.
Plate I — Bioluminance
The night-register specimen — glowing marks in a dark medium.
Plate II — Daylight
The heart keystone, four registers, six families, the chart canon.
Identity & material
Logo lab
The Vitruvian halo — five dots dancing. Promoted: ships as HaloMark.
Living Lens
The warm point-cloud material study — the common ancestor of the particle work.
Orb zoo
One shaded sphere, 15 lives — ball, eye, iris, drop of light.
Motion — placement and emission
Two engines, side by side on purpose: the particle labs place (each concept tells a particle where to go); the generator emits (goal → task → event → field → re-aim — forms grown, not drawn).
Particle zoo
One engine, ~14 cloud behaviours.
Particle lab
Any concept full-bleed, five live knobs.
Generator lab
The soma emission engine — grow a coral, a spire, a strike.
Timeline lab
The grammar walked through time — the re-planning walk.
Timeline — the vessel
The same walk thrown on the wheel — the mouth is the lumen.
Loader zoo
~16 bodily rhythms; the six channel rhythms shipped.
The body
Living atlas
Six glowing organ studies — macro, meso, micro.
Movement
~15 forward-kinematic skeletons in motion.
Screens & tooling
Biograph screen mock
The v0 flagship mock — retired; the real app outran it.
Ontology map
The model as an interactive map — generated data, CI-gated.
→ Motion principles live in Content → Animation; the identity mark in Brand.