face value

can you take what's given to you as shape? or as constraints on shape? you don't have to understand the surface of the shape, but can you identify the lines it's constrained by, and remember those?

no mucking about with uncertainty with that model

or, maybe better, perfect uncertainty is the backdrop, I draw with lines, and I don't ever introduce gradients

when you're called to act, overlay the constraint layers, and make up a surface that lets anyone doing enumerative geometry on the same problem set rest easy knowing that y'all aren't going to homotopically step on each other's toes.

I think my other main mode is to treat constraints as accumulated compositions of Shannon information, and that works too, but you don't know what you'll hit until you touch it - or, maybe better, until it touches you back - whereas the geometric mode lets you draw the whole owl at once by constrained hallucination, but the owl rendering is single-use. it doesn't accept Bayesian updates. this is a feature: model updates are cheap, and people experience it as easy acceptance, maybe easier acceptance than they can afford themselves.

when I say "I'm taking this at face value" it means I'm sticking with the geometric mode, electing purposefully and explicitly not to introduce any uncertainty into the situation. I can do both, sometimes you want an emulsion, so to speak, but not before you know something about the risk profile around the area of its use.

I think it's why people think I always know exactly what to say: they project the geometry I offer into their interiority, and it doesn't conflict, which means they experience it as novel information, which lets them privately access and test novel interpolation. I'm not an oracle, I'm just listening technically.

offering this for your own composition - I'm face-blind, so this is tool-sharing :)

that I was able to find this suggests to me that it's been found before; I do wonder if this kind of construction/reasoning happens silently, further down in the stack, for folks who didn't have to build this by hand