{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:59:42Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.0, "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: 01a09544-d1b3-7f31-8d4d-b02ca7cdabcf\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: lithophane\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: INF.MED\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 044: 1001 regi", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 73.0, "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: 01a09544-d1b3-7550-bb36-0763f53f0aca\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: lithophane\nRegistry id: vr.tr.lithophane\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nCo" } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:46:12+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "owners" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T10:10:32+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q623020", "registryId": "vr.tr.lithophane", "name": "lithophane", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q623020/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.lithophane", "name": "lithophane", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a lithophane, assess how its relief produces a transmitted-light image, and decide how it may be fabricated, displayed, reproduced or conserved.", "definition": "A lithophane is a translucent relief image, traditionally made in porcelain, whose varying thickness produces tonal differences when viewed by transmitted light.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the lithophane as an image-bearing medium whose variations in translucent material thickness produce tonal variation under transmitted light, linking the image design, relief encoding, fabrication versions and individual physical examples without treating them as interchangeable.", "in_scope": [ "Recognition of an image encoded through variations in translucent material thickness", "Relationships between source image, relief design, production version and individual lithophane", "Thickness-to-tone behaviour under specified illumination and viewing conditions", "Fabrication features that affect image legibility and physical integrity", "Display, reproduction and conservation decisions specific to the translucent relief" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Independent interpretation and cataloguing of the original photograph, drawing or depicted subject", "General chemistry and manufacture of porcelain, polymers or other substrate materials", "Complete engineering and electrical safety of lamps or illuminated display housings", "General operation and maintenance of printers, moulding equipment or kilns", "Images formed solely by printed pigments, transparent photographic layers or reflected-light relief" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Under transmitted light, spatial variations in material thickness contribute directly to the visible image's tonal pattern.", "The image-bearing surface has a relief or thickness field; a flat transparency carrying only photographic or printed tones does not meet this test.", "Recognition of the intended image depends substantially on transmitted light, distinguishing it from relief intended principally for reflected-light viewing.", "The material transmits enough light to reveal thickness-dependent tonal differences; an opaque relief with similar geometry does not qualify on geometry alone.", "Porcelain construction is not used as the sole recognition test; material and fabrication method must be recorded separately from the image-forming mechanism." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Image and relief identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "source image ↔ relief design ↔ production version ↔ physical item", "why_it_matters": "Separates a change of subject or relief encoding from another physical copy of the same design." }, { "name": "Image-forming mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "thickness-controlled transmission; hybrid thickness and colour; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Establishes whether the object belongs within this model and how additional colouring contributes." }, { "name": "Translucent substrate", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "identified material, colour, surface treatment and identification confidence", "why_it_matters": "Material and treatment affect light transmission, fabrication constraints and care." }, { "name": "Image-bearing thickness range", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "minimum and maximum thickness in mm, with measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Bounds the available tonal range and identifies potentially fragile thin regions." }, { "name": "Thickness-to-transmission response", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "transmitted-light fraction or percentage at measured thicknesses under stated conditions", "why_it_matters": "Tests whether the relief produces distinguishable tones in the selected material." }, { "name": "Relief feature resolution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "smallest resolved lateral feature in mm under a stated fabrication or inspection method", "why_it_matters": "Indicates which image details survive conversion and production." }, { "name": "Display geometry", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "flat panel; curved panel; cylindrical form; other documented form", "why_it_matters": "Changes illumination coverage, viewing direction and mounting requirements." }, { "name": "Illumination arrangement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "light source, diffuser, source-to-object distance, illuminated side and ambient conditions", "why_it_matters": "Image quality cannot be assessed independently of the arrangement used to reveal it." }, { "name": "Transmitted-image condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "legible; reduced contrast; local light leakage; obscured detail; unassessed, with observations", "why_it_matters": "Records functional image quality alongside visible physical condition." }, { "name": "Relief integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact; cracked; chipped; warped; repaired; otherwise altered, with locations", "why_it_matters": "Damage or repair can change both load-bearing capacity and the transmitted image." } ], "affordances": [ "Check whether a candidate produces an image through thickness-controlled transmission.", "Trace a physical example to its relief design, source imagery and documented production history.", "Evaluate a proposed relief against measured material transmission and fabrication limits.", "Compare image legibility under alternative backlighting and viewing arrangements.", "Identify thin areas, mounts, repairs or contamination that threaten integrity or distort the image.", "Determine whether a proposed reproduction or display has sufficient technical evidence and documented rights." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe how lithophanes show images by varying thickness in transmitted light.", "Catalogue lithophanes in a collection with maker, date and condition." ], "must_not": [ "Handle fragile historical porcelain lithophanes without the custodian's permission.", "Make lithophanes of a person's photograph without their consent for sale or display.", "Present a modern reproduction as an antique piece." ], "requires_human": [ "Restoring, selling or lending a historical lithophane." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Historical pieces are fragile and irreplaceable once broken.", "Turning private photographs into display objects can intrude on the people shown." ], "affected_parties": [ "Collectors and museums", "People whose images are used" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The person or institution that owns each piece.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Lithophanes are displayed in windows, lampshades and illuminated panels so transmitted light reveals their images.", "They are encountered as decorative objects, commemorative portraits and museum pieces whose appearance depends on both relief thickness and lighting." ], "visual_identification": [ "A thin translucent porcelain panel carries shallow relief that can appear indistinct under front lighting.", "Backlighting reveals a tonal image in which thinner regions appear lighter and thicker regions appear darker.", "The image follows variations in material thickness rather than depending solely on painted surface shading." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Thin porcelain can fracture under impact or bending, leaving sharp fragments that can injure people or damage nearby objects.", "Heat and uneven heating from an unsuitable light source can crack the panel or degrade its mounting materials.", "Insecure mounting can allow the panel to fall and injure people or damage property." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No standard or official classification specific to a standalone porcelain lithophane is identified with confidence." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q623020: lithophane", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623020", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Lithophane", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithophane", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "medium-boundary-and-image-identity", "name": "Medium boundary and image identity", "description": "Establishes what makes the candidate a lithophane and which image-bearing entity is being described.", "rationale": "A relief, a transparency, a relief design file and a physical lithophane can depict the same image while requiring different records and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "transmission-based-recognition", "name": "Transmission-based recognition", "description": "Tests the contribution of relief thickness to the visible image.", "findings": [ { "id": "thickness-encoded-image", "name": "Thickness-encoded image", "description": "Record evidence that the candidate's thickness field produces its transmitted-light tonal pattern.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does comparison under reflected and transmitted light show that thickness variation contributes to the intended image?", "kind": "definition", "id": "thickness-encoded-image-q01" }, { "text": "If pigments, coatings or embedded images are present, what part of the image is produced by thickness rather than those additions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "thickness-encoded-image-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "image-design-and-copy", "name": "Image, design and copy", "description": "Separates source imagery from its relief translation and physical instances.", "findings": [ { "id": "relief-version-lineage", "name": "Relief version lineage", "description": "Record how the image source, relief design and physical example are related, including meaningful revisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source image or composition was translated into this relief, and what evidence supports that relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "relief-version-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "Does a difference between two examples represent a revised relief, a production variation or alteration of an individual item?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "relief-version-lineage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "relief-to-light-response", "name": "Relief-to-light response", "description": "Connects material thickness and image detail to the transmitted image.", "rationale": "Relief geometry alone cannot establish tonal performance without the substrate's optical response.", "layers": [ { "id": "thickness-and-tonal-range", "name": "Thickness and tonal range", "description": "Characterises the thickness range and its effect on transmission.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-specific-tonal-response", "name": "Material-specific tonal response", "description": "Record measured or explicitly unverified relationships between thickness and transmitted brightness.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the thinnest and thickest image-bearing regions, and how were they measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-specific-tonal-response-q01" }, { "text": "Under fixed illumination, what transmission values correspond to representative thicknesses of this material and surface finish?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-specific-tonal-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "image-to-relief-translation", "name": "Image-to-relief translation", "description": "Records how tonal and spatial features of the image become relief geometry.", "findings": [ { "id": "tone-mapping-and-detail-retention", "name": "Tone mapping and detail retention", "description": "Identify conversion choices that affect contrast, orientation and recognisable detail.", "questions": [ { "text": "What mapping, sculpting method or other documented process assigned image tones to relief depths?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tone-mapping-and-detail-retention-q01" }, { "text": "Which image details are lost, merged or reversed when the realised lithophane is compared with its intended image?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tone-mapping-and-detail-retention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fabrication-and-relief-fidelity", "name": "Fabrication and relief fidelity", "description": "Records how the translucent relief was produced and where production changed its intended behaviour.", "rationale": "Fabrication can alter thickness, translucency and fine detail, affecting both image quality and durability.", "layers": [ { "id": "production-route", "name": "Production route", "description": "Identifies the material and processes used to realise the thickness field.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-and-process-evidence", "name": "Material and process evidence", "description": "Distinguish documented fabrication history from attribution based only on appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the substrate and whether the relief was moulded, carved, printed or produced by another process?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-and-process-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which forming, firing, curing or finishing steps are documented as changing the relief dimensions or light transmission?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-and-process-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "realised-relief-quality", "name": "Realised relief quality", "description": "Assesses deviations and defects in the finished image-bearing body.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-and-transmission-defects", "name": "Geometry and transmission defects", "description": "Locate production features that distort image tones or weaken thin regions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where do measured thickness or surface detail depart from the intended relief, if a reference design exists?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "geometry-and-transmission-defects-q01" }, { "text": "Do voids, seams, layer patterns or other observed production features create unintended bright or dark marks under transmitted light?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "geometry-and-transmission-defects-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "illumination-and-presentation", "name": "Illumination and presentation", "description": "Defines the viewing arrangement through which the lithophane becomes legible.", "rationale": "Backlighting, viewing side and mounting can substantially change the apparent image without changing the relief.", "layers": [ { "id": "backlighting-field", "name": "Backlighting field", "description": "Records the distribution and character of light reaching the lithophane.", "findings": [ { "id": "illumination-dependent-legibility", "name": "Illumination-dependent legibility", "description": "Assess the image under documented lighting rather than assigning an unconditional quality rating.", "questions": [ { "text": "What light source, diffusion, spacing and ambient conditions were used when image legibility was assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "illumination-dependent-legibility-q01" }, { "text": "What lighting adjustment reduces hot spots or unreadable dark regions while remaining appropriate for the identified material?", "kind": "action", "id": "illumination-dependent-legibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "viewing-and-mounting-geometry", "name": "Viewing and mounting geometry", "description": "Connects image orientation and object form to the display arrangement.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-viewing-configuration", "name": "Supported viewing configuration", "description": "Record the intended viewing side and support arrangement without treating the surrounding lamp or frame as part of the image design.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which viewing side and orientation produce the intended image, including any text or asymmetric features?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-viewing-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "How can the panel or curved body be supported without obscuring image-bearing areas or loading vulnerable thin regions?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-viewing-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "preservation-and-reproduction", "name": "Preservation and reproduction", "description": "Supports decisions about changes to the physical relief and reuse of its encoded image.", "rationale": "A treatment can restore physical continuity while altering transmission, and ownership of an item does not by itself establish permission to reproduce its imagery.", "layers": [ { "id": "optical-and-physical-condition", "name": "Optical and physical condition", "description": "Assesses condition in both ordinary and transmitted light.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-effects-on-image", "name": "Condition effects on image", "description": "Record how damage, deposits and previous repairs affect the thickness-encoded image and its support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where do cracks, chips, deposits, discolouration or repairs change the image observed under comparable transmitted-light conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-effects-on-image-q01" }, { "text": "What material and treatment evidence is needed before cleaning, repairing or remounting the affected regions?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-effects-on-image-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "image-and-relief-reuse", "name": "Image and relief reuse", "description": "Tracks attribution and permissions at the source-image and relief-design levels.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproduction-basis", "name": "Reproduction basis", "description": "Record the evidence needed to reproduce, distribute or modify the lithophane's image and relief.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is credited for the source imagery and relief translation, and what records support those attributions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproduction-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What documented rights or permissions cover the proposed use of the source image, relief design and any supplied fabrication file?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproduction-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended sense is the image-bearing decorative object or medium.", "Historical attribution, dates and regional production traditions require verification.", "Useful thickness and lighting ranges depend on material and manufacturing process; no universal ranges are asserted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of lithophane this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Flat porcelain panels", "Curved porcelain panels", "Porcelain vessels with lithophane images in their bases", "Lithophane lampshades", "3D-printed polymer lithophanes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of lithophane this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Backlit decorative images and portraits", "Window-hung ornamental panels", "Decorative lamps and nightlights", "Personalized photographic keepsakes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of lithophane 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": [ "Insufficient translucency makes the image difficult to see.", "An unsuitable thickness range loses detail in highlights or shadows.", "Uneven backlighting introduces brightness variations unrelated to the image.", "Thin porcelain panels can chip or fracture.", "Polymer lithophanes can deform when placed too close to a hot light source." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of lithophane this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Bas-relief", "difference": "Bas-relief is primarily read through surface form and reflected-light shading; a lithophane encodes image tones through thickness-dependent light transmission." }, { "name": "Transparency", "difference": "A photographic or printed transparency generally encodes tones through image-forming substances on a carrier; a lithophane encodes them through variations in material thickness." }, { "name": "Cameo glass", "difference": "Cameo glass reveals contrasting glass layers by carving; a lithophane relies on transmitted-light differences through a translucent relief." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of lithophane this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authoritative terminology establishes the boundary of lithophane for non-porcelain examples and hybrids that combine relief transmission with colour imagery?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept or its thickness-encoded image mechanism, requiring linkage instead of a separate publication?", "Which repeatable measurement method best separates substrate transmission, illumination unevenness and relief geometry when assessing image quality?", "What evidence should distinguish a new relief expression from a fabrication variant when the source image is unchanged but thickness mapping or curvature changes?", "Which material-specific conservation guidance establishes suitable illumination, mounting and treatment limits for the particular lithophane being recorded?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, "questions": 25 } }