The channel schema — one channel, one variable (the legend this design obeys)
| Channel | Encodes | Status in this frame |
|---|---|---|
| Y (vertical) | T-stage (T1 ground → T9 canopy; T10 set apart, orthogonal) | locked — the bands |
| Size | importance / significance (canonical large → minor reception small) | live — the seed renders canonical-size |
| Hue | tradition flare — navigation, never meaning (per canon §C) | live — placeholder ABR-CHR terracotta; wire to the per-tradition extracted palette |
| Opacity | density (reception volume — faint → saturated) | live — channel reserved; demo at next rows |
| Solid line | lineage (parent → child, the morph, within this tree) — quiet | frame ready |
| Dashed thread | rhyme — leaves the tree toward another seed's tree (Q2 as a picture) | live — one real thread: → Brahma-Sūtra (5/5 validated) |
| X | tree-shape (readable) ⇄ Scale S0–S8 (analytic) — one space, two projections | toggle stubbed — switches the axis; nodes re-plot when scale-coded |
Card upgrade (a) live — author/who-why/date/where + docent + edge-type tooltips on the seed card. W22 breadcrumb live on the seed card (native/citable state); prose nodes will render sequence/¶N + honesty-rail when they fill — same widget, two states (talmud_card_spec_2026-06-13.md). Discipline: density moved off color (canon §C: hue = which tradition you're in) → opacity. Importance moved off color → size. No channel carries two meanings.
X-projection:
readable view — X carries shape, not meaning
T10 artistic reimagination — ORTHOGONAL (a parallel axis, not a rung)fills only with artistic-medium works — never prose
T9 living lineagerow to fill — together
T8 revival / recoveryrow to fill — together
T7 degraded popular formrow to fill — together
T6 confessional codificationrow to fill — together
T5 scholarly commentary (emic · etic)the big band — 195 passages wait here
T4 institutional canonizationrow to fill — together
T3 textual codificationrow to fill — together
T2 direct-witness / first encoding
T1 originating insight — asymptotic
T1 — the insight itself: never held directly, only inferred from T2
Romans 8:28–30
who wrote it?Paul (undisputed)
to whom?the assemblies in Rome
why?Jerusalem ahead; Spain in view; Jew + Gentile under one gospel
when?~55–58 CE
what?a letter
from where?likely Corinth
Romans 8
Romans
Paul's letters
New Testament
Old + New Testaments
Fill plan (a row per sitting): T3 next (6 sources) → T5 in slices (195 passages — needs the size/opacity channels working hard) → T6 → T7 → T8 (the recovery branch) → T9 → T10 (artistic-medium only). The v0 all-rows draft stays at
romans_tree_talmud_v0_2026-06-12.html for reference.