#>asset_metadata
#:layer #!design

^"spirit"{
  whimsy_name: "prime-cant-not-say-the-thing"
  title: "I literally can't NOT say the thing"
  description: "Cutout arrangement on a clear sheet, scanned for the September 28, 2026 set."
}

^"source"{
  id: "prime-2026-09-28-12"
  master: "public/images/renders/_raw/folio-scans-2026-09-28/prime-2026-09-28-12-scan.png"
  master_tracked: false
  scan: { width: 3409, height: 4009, dpi: 300, orientation: "portrait" }
  scan_extent: "about 11.4 x 13.4 in at 300 dpi; the scanned edge, not a measured size"
  record: ~"../../../../.spw/surfaces/folio-archive/release-2026-09-28.spw"
}

^"usage"{
  surface: "primes"
  role: "cutout-arrangement"
  formats_available: ["avif", "webp"]
  ground: "clear — the black behind the cutouts was the scanner lid seen through a clear sheet (creator, 2026-09-28), so every tier keys it to transparent; a page gives the piece its ground"
  alt_text: "Cutouts on a clear sheet: ah sh-t, I literally can't NOT say the thing, oh neat, THIS; a strip of sigils # ( @ [ & ] ) .; components as markup and worldbuilding via interaction; INTRO, where we are NOW; Practice, Operationalize, Boon HONK upside down; augment: challenging problems, great team; talk through paintings; the kraft key."
  tiers: {
    thumb: { width: 218, height: 256, avif_kib: 19, webp_kib: 14 }
    display: { width: 435, height: 512, avif_kib: 55, webp_kib: 45 }
    hero: { width: 871, height: 1024, avif_kib: 119, webp_kib: 105 }
  }
}

^"optimization"{
  tool: "image-optimize illustrations tiers (magick → cwebp / avifenc), from a -strip intermediate at 2048px"
  png: "none — AVIF and WebP only, as the September 26 and 27 sets ship"
  alpha: "the lid keyed before tiers are cut: dark, broad enough to survive an opening that drops ink lines, and reached from the scan edge; pure white reached from the edge is uncovered glass (paper sits near 232), and thin light slivers in the edge band clear too"
  hero_budget: "hero at AVIF quality 60, WebP 75, under 120 KiB"
  metadata: "none embedded; the intermediate is stripped before any tier is cut"
}

^"discovery"{
  tags: ["prime", "release-2026-09-28", "cant-not-say", "genre-hopper", "sigil-strip", "intro-now", "practice-list", "augment-card", "paintings-list", "kraft-key"]
  part_of: "folio-release-2026-09-28"
}

^"expression"{
  status: "draft — read from what is lettered or painted; the creator develops it"
  key: "* made thing · & subject · < topic or place · ~ held motif · @ date or vantage · ! lettered imperative · ? lettered question · % count"
  a: `intro[where.we.are]{now} sigils[# ( @ [ & ] ) .]`
  b: `*prime-cant-not-say-the-thing *cant.not.say *genre.hopper *sigil.strip *intro.now *practice.list *augment.card *paintings.list *kraft.key ~the.thing @now`
  handles: ["*cant.not.say", "*genre.hopper", "*sigil.strip", "*intro.now", "*practice.list", "*augment.card", "*paintings.list", "*kraft.key", "~the.thing", "@now"]
  creator: "unset — the creator's own sentence"
}

^"dialog"{
  opens: `?what is the thing you can't not say?`
  turns: []
  answers: "unset — kept for the conversation"
}

^"imagine"{
  status: "open — nothing generated yet; the creator runs Grok Imagine and chooses what returns"
  motion: `THIS pops, and the sigil strip lights one sigil at a time`
  after: { id: "prime-2026-09-28-11", shares: ["*kraft.key", "*practice.list", "*augment.card", "*paintings.list"] }
  before: { id: "prime-2026-09-28-13", shares: ["*cant.not.say", "*genre.hopper", "*practice.list", "*kraft.key"] }
  seed: "the master as scanned, lid and all; Imagine reads a dark ground more predictably than transparency"
  returns: "public/images/renders/imagine/2026-09-28/prime-cant-not-say-the-thing-imagine-NN.<ext>, with a sidecar naming generator: Grok Imagine and source: prime-2026-09-28-12"
  derivatives: []
}