Seven mechanisms that are hard to hold in prose alone — the ones where motion is the explanation. Each is drawn with pure SVG and CSS: no libraries, no video, no network. They run offline in any browser, the way everything in this architecture does. These build on the twelve leverage points for the foundation site.
Every state transition in the GDC is one operation: a rotor sandwiched around a multivector. Rotation without matrices — 28 flops, not 64. Fold, sync, evolve, morph are all this, at different angles.
A computation folds to a tiny deterministic seed — like a tardigrade drying out — then rehydrates anywhere, byte-identical, even decades later offline. This is the 35-year durability story as a mechanism.
The membrane gates self from non-self. A codon whose pseudoscalar dominates (wrong chirality) is rejected at the boundary — caught by geometry, not a code review. The immune system is a norm check.
The manifold is generated, not stored (1.2 MB of rules → 314 GB of address space). A packet doesn't look up a route — its position on the fixed geometry is its route. No routing tables to update.
Like protein synthesis, the pipeline is a fixed sequence of deterministic stages. The nucleus reacts; it never orchestrates. Identical inputs always fold to identical outputs — the basis of replayable evidence.
Predictable streams get a 16-neuron lock-on (the dragonfly tracking prey). Chaotic ones get a parallel spectral scan (the mantis taking in the whole field). The router switches by entropy.
However a record arrives — a single-file tissue, a spreadsheet sidecar, or a scanned paper form — it passes through one membrane and produces the same canonical hash. The anti-cathedral: many doors, one room.