#>asset_metadata
#:layer #!design

^"spirit"{
  whimsy_name: "prime-which-roots-to-water"
  title: "Which roots to water"
  description: "Cutout arrangement, scanned October 22, 2026, for the October drop."
}

^"source"{
  id: "prime-2026-10-22-01"
  master: "public/images/renders/_raw/folio-scans-2026-10-22/prime-2026-10-22-01-scan.png"
  master_tracked: false
  scan: { width: 3254, height: 4912, dpi: 300, orientation: "portrait" }
  scan_extent: "about 10.8 x 16.4 in at 300 dpi; the scanned edge, not a measured size"
  record: ~"../../../../.spw/surfaces/folio-archive/release-2026-10-31.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, so every tier keys it to transparent; a page gives the piece its ground"
  orientation: "The alphabet cutout lies upside down."
  alt_text: "Cutouts on a clear sheet: a HOLIDAY Boon list from Halloween to New Year, WHICH ROOTS DO I TRY TO WATER with three blank lines, a jar dripping on a sprout, GROWING AS A COMMUNITY, a HOLIDAY Bundle, a Lore.land card and a course list"
  tiers: {
    thumb: { width: 170, height: 256, avif_kib: 19, webp_kib: 13 }
    display: { width: 339, height: 512, avif_kib: 56, webp_kib: 39 }
    hero: { width: 679, height: 1024, avif_kib: 117, webp_kib: 109 }
  }
}

^"optimization"{
  tool: "image-optimize illustrations tiers (magick → cwebp / avifenc), from a -strip intermediate at 2048px"
  png: "none — AVIF and WebP only, as the September sets ship"
  alpha: "the lid keyed before tiers are cut: a 5x5 median, dark under 30% and neutral under 10% chroma, a core that survives a wide opening, regrown a little inside a fine mask, reached from the scan edge; light slivers in an 8px edge band clear where they meet the lid, and pure white reached from the edge is uncovered glass"
  hero_budget: "under 120 KiB; stepped from quality 75 to AVIF 55, WebP 75"
  metadata: "none embedded; the intermediate is stripped before any tier is cut"
}

^"discovery"{
  tags: ["prime", "release-2026-10-31", "holidays", "roots", "community", "valence", "lore-land", "alphabet"]
  part_of: "folio-release-2026-10-31"
  thread: "practice"
}

^"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: `roots[watering]{community.growing}`
  b: `*prime-which-roots-to-water ?which_roots_do_i_try_to_water *holiday.boon.list *growing.as.a.community !match.pace <lore.land`
  handles: ["?which_roots_do_i_try_to_water", "*holiday.boon.list", "*growing.as.a.community", "!match.pace", "<lore.land"]
  creator: "unset — the creator's own sentence"
}

^"dialog"{
  opens: `?which roots do you try to water?`
  turns: []
  answers: "unset — kept for the conversation"
}

^"imagine"{
  status: "open — nothing generated yet; the creator runs Grok Imagine and chooses what returns"
  motion: `a drop falls from the tipped jar onto the sprout and runs down its leaf`
  after: { id: "prime-2026-10-22-00", shares: ["*alphabet.blocks"] }
  before: { id: "prime-2026-10-22-02", shares: ["*alphabet.blocks", "*drop.sprout", "*growing.as.a.community", "*holiday.boon.list", "*holiday.bundle", "*which.roots.to.water"] }
  seed: "the master as scanned, lid and all; Imagine reads a dark ground more predictably than transparency"
  returns: "public/images/renders/imagine/2026-10-31/prime-which-roots-to-water-imagine-NN.<ext>, with a sidecar naming generator: Grok Imagine and source: prime-2026-10-22-01"
  derivatives: []
}