# texture.website

A studio for building material prompts. The address is the prompt: each word in the path is a material, bottom first, written into the sentence as it stands; a hyphen is a space. A mark before a word is how it meets the material before it: . settled into, ^ lifted over, * heavy with, ~ drifting through, = held against, @ seen through, ? broken by, ! cut with, % measured against. In a path the ? mark is written %3F. Any word works; listed words carry a class with tactile qualities and a science note.

Ladders, as query keys whose values are words (hyphens for spaces):
- scale: macro, close, arm's length, room, far
- light: raking dawn, overcast, noon, lamplight, sodium night
- wear: pristine, handled, worn, weathered, ruined
- process: as found, riso, engraving, relief, posterized, cyanotype
- scene: wall, floor, table, costume, sky, page
- format: tile, plate, sheet
- lens: none, risograph botanica, civic brutalism, lunar laundromat, folk-tech embroidery, deep-sea archive, tidepool baroque, midnight municipal
- beat: none, arrival, discovery, waiting, aftermath, return
- trace: none, footprints, a dropped glove, candle wax, chalk marks, pooled rain
- face: title, prompt, spw, facets
- tone: paper, ink, signal
r rolls every ladder from a seed; d moves the day's composition by days; say and as put words in a speech bubble.

Views: a first path word ending in @ is whose eyes the page is seen through: /minimalist@/ (Minimalist@, the stage and one short prompt); /prompt-engineer@/ (PromptEngineer@, every part of the prompt named, every pivot and technique); /story-designer@/ (StoryDesigner@, a scene with a moment and a trace).

Pivots, as query keys, each teaching a technique: perm (a ladder written as a permutation), weigh (materials as weighted multi-prompts), chaos, weird, stylize (numbers), raw, sref (random), seed (a number), invert (reverse the layers by reversing the path). Techniques with their sources are in /vocabulary.json.

The page writes a Midjourney prompt (with --tile or an aspect ratio by format), a plain prompt for any model, a Spw line and the address, and sketches the words with drawn bases lit, worn and printed by an SVG filter.

Readings: /vocabulary.json (classes, materials, ladders, phrases), /{material}.txt (prompt starters), /{material}.spw (the material as a line).

Classes: paper, textile, stone, wood, metal, glass, ceramic, pigment, polymer, organic, phenomenon