{ "model": { "rank": 6753, "code": "thing-q173242", "model_id": "vr.tr.woodcut-process", "name": "woodcut process", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a woodcut process, record how a wooden relief matrix produces impressions, assess readiness and defects, and identify justified next actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q173242/", "tier": 2, "score": 59, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "color woodcut", "chiaroscuro woodcut", "Hissai", "woodblock printing in Japan", "flock prints", "Japanese prints", "Edo woodblock print" ], "aliasCount": 7, "merged": 7, "knownIn": 59, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q173242", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173242", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:26:00Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0887d-3539-7772-aaf4-e160afaacae7\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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pressure.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the activity of preparing, cutting, inking and printing a wooden relief matrix, including proof-led revision and coordination of successive impressions or colour passes.", "in_scope": [ "Selection and preparation of a wooden block for the intended image and printing method", "Image transfer, orientation and decisions about retained printing surfaces and removed areas", "Carving sequence, tool control and assessment of the resulting relief", "Ink application, substrate preparation and transfer by hand pressure or press", "Proof assessment, registration, revision and management of successive impressions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The finished print as an artwork, collectible or publication", "Wood anatomy and material production beyond their effects on block preparation and printing", "Design and manufacture of carving tools, presses and other equipment", "Linocut, intaglio and other printmaking processes using different matrices or transfer principles", "Wood engraving as a separately identified process, while recording its boundary with woodcut", "Art-market valuation, attribution and conservation of historic prints" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The image-bearing matrix is wooden; a similarly carved linoleum matrix identifies linocut instead.", "The intended image transfers principally from retained raised surfaces, rather than from ink held in incised recesses as in intaglio.", "An impression is made by contacting a substrate with the inked matrix; a carved wooden image that is never printed is not by itself a completed woodcut process.", "Matrix grain orientation, cutting tools and the practitioner's terminology help distinguish woodcut from wood engraving; relief printing from wood alone does not settle that boundary.", "Where the block directly contacts the final substrate, the agent checks image reversal between matrix and impression rather than assuming that transferred lettering will remain readable." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Process identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Practitioner-designated technique or tradition; woodcut; mixed process; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the intended workflow without treating one tradition's materials and methods as universal." }, { "name": "Matrix material and grain orientation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded wood or wood product; face relative to grain; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Informs cutting behaviour, surface preparation and the boundary with wood engraving." }, { "name": "Printable image dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Width and height in mm", "why_it_matters": "Constrains substrate size, positioning and the area over which transfer pressure must act." }, { "name": "Matrix readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unprepared; prepared; image transferred; partly cut; ready for proof; under revision; approved for printing; retired", "why_it_matters": "Makes the next permissible operation explicit and prevents premature printing or irreversible revision." }, { "name": "Colour and matrix strategy", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Single pass; multiple blocks; reduction; selective inking; mixed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines registration needs, pass dependencies and whether later cutting removes the ability to repeat earlier passes." }, { "name": "Transfer configuration", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to ink or pigment preparation, application tools, substrate, substrate condition and pressure method", "why_it_matters": "Allows a proof result to be interpreted in relation to the actual printing conditions." }, { "name": "Registration deviation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Displacement in mm at named reference points; angular deviation in degrees where useful; not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison between intended and observed alignment across successive passes." }, { "name": "Proof-to-matrix traceability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links each proof or impression to its matrix state, pass sequence and recorded printing settings", "why_it_matters": "Separates effects of carving changes from effects of inking, substrate condition and pressure." } ], "affordances": [ "Determine whether a proposed operation is woodcut and flag unresolved boundaries with neighbouring relief processes.", "Plan block preparation and cutting around image orientation, grain behaviour and retained printing areas.", "Identify prerequisites for a proof, including a stable block, prepared substrate and suitable transfer configuration.", "Compare proofs and propose targeted adjustments to cutting, inking, substrate condition or pressure.", "Plan colour-pass registration and identify irreversible dependencies in reduction printing.", "Record an approved matrix state and printing configuration for subsequent impressions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "image-and-matrix-preparation", "name": "Image and matrix preparation", "description": "Connect the intended impression to a prepared wooden surface and a legible cutting plan.", "rationale": "Woodcut depends on converting an image into retained and removed wooden areas while accounting for grain, surface condition and reversal.", "layers": [ { "id": "wooden-printing-surface", "name": "Wooden printing surface", "description": "Record the block properties and preparation that affect cutting and ink transfer.", "findings": [ { "id": "block-fitness-for-image", "name": "Block fitness for image", "description": "Assess the chosen block against the intended detail, printing area and transfer method.", "questions": [ { "text": "What wood or wood product, grain orientation, dimensions and visible defects characterise the proposed printing face?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "block-fitness-for-image-q01" }, { "text": "What preparation is needed to make that face suitable for the intended cutting and printing method?", "kind": "action", "id": "block-fitness-for-image-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "image-to-relief-plan", "name": "Image-to-relief plan", "description": "Establish how the design maps onto the wooden matrix.", "findings": [ { "id": "retained-and-removed-areas", "name": "Retained and removed areas", "description": "Record which areas should transfer colour, which should remain clear and how the impression should read.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which marks identify retained printing surfaces and which identify wood to remove?", "kind": "definition", "id": "retained-and-removed-areas-q01" }, { "text": "How has the transferred design accounted for reversal, especially in lettering and asymmetric motifs?", "kind": "action", "id": "retained-and-removed-areas-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cutting-and-relief-control", "name": "Cutting and relief control", "description": "Track how cutting produces a usable relief surface and which changes remain possible.", "rationale": "Removing wood changes the matrix irreversibly, and fine raised features must survive both carving and printing.", "layers": [ { "id": "cutting-sequence", "name": "Cutting sequence", "description": "Relate tool operations to grain direction, image features and block support.", "findings": [ { "id": "controlled-wood-removal", "name": "Controlled wood removal", "description": "Record a cutting approach that preserves intended marks and allows controlled handling of the block.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tools and cutting directions suit the grain and the narrowest retained features in this block?", "kind": "action", "id": "controlled-wood-removal-q01" }, { "text": "How will the block be secured and hands positioned clear of the cutting path during each operation?", "kind": "action", "id": "controlled-wood-removal-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "relief-integrity", "name": "Relief integrity", "description": "Assess whether the cut matrix supports the intended transfer without unwanted marks or feature loss.", "findings": [ { "id": "clearance-and-feature-survival", "name": "Clearance and feature survival", "description": "Distinguish inadequate clearance, damaged printing features and intentional surface texture.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cleared areas still pick up or transfer colour under the intended printing conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "clearance-and-feature-survival-q01" }, { "text": "Which raised features are chipped, unstable or missing, and what revision or repair remains feasible?", "kind": "action", "id": "clearance-and-feature-survival-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inking-and-impression-transfer", "name": "Inking and impression transfer", "description": "Describe how colour reaches the relief and transfers onto the receiving substrate.", "rationale": "A cut block alone does not determine the impression; application, substrate condition and pressure jointly shape the printed result.", "layers": [ { "id": "colour-application", "name": "Colour 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"description": "Capture enough of each pull's conditions to interpret uneven transfer, movement or substrate damage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What substrate, moisture condition, positioning method and hand-pressure or press configuration were used for this impression?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transfer-condition-record-q01" }, { "text": "Where does the proof show incomplete transfer, slippage or substrate damage, and which transfer variable should be adjusted first?", "kind": "action", "id": "transfer-condition-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "proofs-colour-passes-and-run-control", "name": "Proofs, colour passes and run control", "description": "Use attributable proofs to guide revisions and coordinate repeat or multicolour printing.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish matrix defects from printing variation and recognise when a later operation prevents repeating an earlier state.", "layers": [ { "id": "proof-led-revision", "name": "Proof-led revision", "description": "Connect observed results to the matrix state and printing conditions that produced them.", "findings": [ { "id": "proof-diagnosis-and-acceptance", "name": "Proof diagnosis and acceptance", "description": "Judge a proof against the maker's intended marks and decide whether to revise the block or the printing setup.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which matrix state and printing configuration produced this proof, and what intended result is it being compared with?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "proof-diagnosis-and-acceptance-q01" }, { "text": "Which deviations require further cutting, which call for transfer adjustments, and which are accepted as intentional variation?", "kind": "action", "id": "proof-diagnosis-and-acceptance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pass-sequence-and-repeatability", "name": "Pass sequence and repeatability", "description": "Manage alignment, matrix changes and dependencies across multiple pulls.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-and-state-dependencies", "name": "Registration and state dependencies", "description": "Record how colour passes align and when cutting makes an earlier printable state unavailable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which blocks or successive reduction states produce each pass, and what references and tolerances govern their alignment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "registration-and-state-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "Before a reduction cut, have all required impressions of the current state been printed and assessed?", "kind": "action", "id": "registration-and-state-dependencies-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence of block wear, substrate change or application drift would require a new proof during the run?", "kind": "action", "id": "registration-and-state-dependencies-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be 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"evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of woodcut process this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Cutting tools can slip and cause punctures or lacerations.", "Wood grain, knots or excessive cutting can split the block or break fine raised details.", "Uneven inking or pressure can produce incomplete coverage, filled details or smudging.", "Misregistration between blocks or successive impressions can displace colour areas.", "Dust from block preparation and some inks or cleaning solvents can create inhalation or skin-exposure hazards." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of woodcut process this model covers, and on what 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method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a woodcut process is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a woodcut process passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a 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whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a woodcut process is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a woodcut process, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a woodcut process, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a woodcut process is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a woodcut process proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a woodcut process, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a woodcut process and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a woodcut process, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a woodcut process, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a woodcut process is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a woodcut process consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a woodcut process takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a woodcut process, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a woodcut process, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a woodcut process is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What woodcut process is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of woodcut process are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is woodcut process operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of woodcut process and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of woodcut process?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as woodcut process?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a woodcut process came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a woodcut process and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a woodcut process, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a woodcut process, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a woodcut process is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a woodcut process is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a woodcut process, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a woodcut process, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a woodcut process is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }