Hero
The room's first wall: kicker, headline, dek.
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The collection · 37 forms
Forms for what you need to say.
Start with the job of the interface: state a claim, examine an alternative, or show a change.
Try the three modes
Three ways to communicate
Read, operate, watch.
A form changes the relationship between reader and idea. Choose a mode; then enter its collection below.
AUTHORED ENCOUNTERS · THE INSTRUMENT AND PERFORMANCE SHARE AN ILLUSTRATIVE ARRANGEMENT
WHICH FORM DOES YOUR IDEA NEED? ↗Statements
Claims, observations, evidence and questions. Forms for the reader to read.
Statement
One sentence, given the whole width.
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Observation
A labelled paragraph that watches rather than argues.
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Claim
An assertion that knows it must answer to evidence.
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Evidence
Rows of labelled findings with status marks — receipts, not decoration.
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Question
An open question given the same typographic dignity as an answer.
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Timeline
Dated entries, in order — history as prose, not a widget.
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Connection
A bridge out of the chapter: one sentence, then the doors.
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Refusal
Fail-closed rendered as design language, not as an error state.
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Excerpt
Someone else's words, typeset — verbatim source material with its markdown rendered and its trims marked.
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vindex3 · Ask · 2026-08-29
Answer
The question asked the way people ask it, answered first — one lift-able paragraph beneath the editorial surface, addressable by anchor.
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vindex3 · the legibility layer · 2026-08-30
Snippet
A labeled block of code or terminal output, verbatim on the ink — the on-ramp form, promoted when two sites needed the same shape.
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hause.design · Use · 2026-08-30
Instruments
Comparisons, lenses and structures. Forms the reader can operate.
Anatomy
An annotated cutaway — one artifact drawn as its layers, fully disclosed.
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Decomposition
One object, its parts, the thing that assembles them — stepped by hand.
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ExpertField
A field of units, mostly dormant; each scenario lights the subset that answers.
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Comparison
One object, two interpretations, dragged between.
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the codex
Variants
Physically present variants of one identity — and a designed refusal for the absent one.
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Ladder
A gated progression — rungs climbed in order, each closed only by its own criterion.
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Agreement
N independently-derived values that must be identical — with a FAIL row.
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Derivation
A value folded down a graded scale by caps — derived, never asserted.
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ByteMap
A physical layout drawn to scale — each field's width is its width in bytes.
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FollowReveal
A path through connected ideas, replayed at the hause stagger.
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Terminal
A query surface whose chrome is the form and whose meaning is one executor.
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vindex3 · the Explorer · 2026-08-29
Gating
A stream widened into a working space, judged channel by channel, brought back home.
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vindex3 · the Anatomy · 2026-08-29
Provenance
The publication record beneath the page — dates, version, identifiers, history — disclosed on demand, absent where nothing is registered.
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vindex3 · citing the specification · 2026-08-31
Lens
One concept at several depths — the explanation, the object, the clause — on one URL, with the reader's depth remembered.
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vindex3 · representation · 2026-08-31
Citation
The reference itself, in the formats people paste — plain, BibTeX, APA, CSL-JSON, all from one record.
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vindex3 · citing the specification · 2026-08-31
Performances
Transformation, procession and magnitude. Forms that use sequence and movement.
StagedTransition
One state exits, a held absence, then another enters.
In the library · example pending
chrishayuk.com · exhibition notebook · 2026-09-08
TextCorrection
A rejected line stays legible while its consequence arrives.
In the library · example pending
chrishayuk.com · attribution notebook · 2026-09-09
Transformation
Comparison's cinematic sibling — identical props, performed.
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Unfolding
Decomposition's cinematic sibling — the parts arrive on their own.
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Compilation
A pile of inputs compiled down through named stages.
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Procession
One thing passing through every stage, in order.
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Magnitude
A powers-of-ten zoom-out — each arrival rescales the world.
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Channel
Throughput through a fixed-capacity conduit.
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Quantisation
What quantisation actually does, performed on a lattice.
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Film
A short film in the flow of a chapter — poster until it earns the play.
In the library · example pending
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