Non-blinking fixed stare
Walter Murch · In the Blink of an Eye
p. 35
The knowledge← Home
Built on the books.
Every cinematic decision traces back to more than 3,300 concepts distilled from the books of master filmmakers — 82% of them carrying an explicit page number. Not a style filter; a library.
The canonical chain — every concept lives at the end of it
- Discipline
- Framework
- Model
- Principle set
- Rule
- Concept
Real atoms
Focus on one, and it names its source.
Six real concepts from the genome — exactly as they live in the catalog, with the book and page they came from.
Eye-level lens height
Blain Brown · Cinematography
p. 56
Story Event
Robert McKee · Story
p. 34
Brook — low pressure
Andrei Tarkovsky · Sculpting in Time
p. 61
Pivot shot
Steven D. Katz · Shot by Shot
pp. 175–180
Tonal coincidence
Bruce Block · The Visual Story
pp. 251–252
When a compatible concept joins your scene from Storyboard or Master Prompt, the master prompt recompiles with it — and the citation travels along.
Provenance
A claim you can audit.
Page-cited
Concepts enter the genome with their author, book and page. A director's note resolves to a source, not a vibe.
Machine-verified
Citations are checked mechanically against the source texts; fabricated entries are culled before they ever reach the catalog.
Drift-sealed
The catalog is generated, never hand-edited. Automated tests fail the build if a single byte drifts from the source tree.
See the genome at work.
The Layers screen opens the whole library — touch a concept and watch the prompt recompile.