Vela Labs is staging — work that is being actively developed and is not yet ready to sit alongside the main application. Every experiment listed here is in motion. Some will graduate back to the main app when their behavior, copy, and visual language are settled. Others will teach us something and be folded into other surfaces. None are abandoned.
Twenty-five concealed cells, an image behind each one. You choose which to open and in what order — discovery without curation. The Reveal is the first Labs experiment in line to graduate; the underlying fragment system is where we are putting our weight.
Open →Stack tags across passages, images, treatments, and writers — and watch what surfaces when seemingly unrelated material rhymes. We are testing whether tag-stacking is a useful discovery primitive, or whether it produces noise. The interface is provisional.
Open →Three concealed rooms; you open each door in turn and keep what stays with you. A small experiment in capturing implicit aesthetic signal — what you choose, how long you linger, what you release — without asking you to rate anything explicitly.
Open →A walkthrough of how a Vela session is shaped — from your story, through calibration, into a path that adapts. Early scaffolding; the screenshots and copy are placeholder until the canonical flow stabilizes.
Open →Build your own multi-image composite — a grid arrangement of works that argue something together. The curated composites under /composites are the production surface; this is the personal builder, which still needs onboarding and clearer affordances before it moves to the main app.
Open →A visualization of your desire profile as a constellation across the eight dimensions Vela tracks. Currently a research-grade view; we are working on whether this should be private, shareable, or published as part of Your Path.
Open →Spatial grid views of single images — cells as masks, source-reveal mode, focal-flash sequencing. Cousin to The Reveal; experimenting with whether grid-based discovery extends to deep looking at one work as well as encountering many.
Open →A long-form study workspace where memoir, image responses, and reflection threads weave together. Currently used for compensated research sessions; we are exploring whether the same surface should exist for self-directed reflection.
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