Mood-only
The work is eerie or nostalgic, but no threshold relation can be named.
Mandatory signature feature
Evaluation Rubric
A transparent success/failure rubric for a liminal visual study. You choose every rating; ICU calculates only the arithmetic total and explains the criteria.
Source boundary
The original VIS-0015 description was blank. This release preserves that absence and labels the universe’s explanatory framework as newly authored expansion.
Not an objective quality score
This rubric evaluates whether a study clearly articulates this universe’s authored liminal framework. It does not prove artistic merit, audience response, psychological effect, historical importance or scholarly consensus.
0/12
Current interpretation
| Criterion | 0 | 1 | 2 | Your rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threshold logic Can you name the two states, places, uses, times or categories whose boundary matters? | Absent / unclear | Partial / mixed | Clear / deliberate | |
| Familiar baseline Does enough ordinary spatial grammar remain for displacement or suspension to be legible? | Absent / unclear | Partial / mixed | Clear / deliberate | |
| Compositional intention Are framing, repetition, scale, light, wayfinding or absence doing purposeful work rather than adding random eeriness? | Absent / unclear | Partial / mixed | Clear / deliberate | |
| Concept distinction Could you explain why the study is liminal instead of merely empty, uncanny, surreal, ruined or horror-coded? | Absent / unclear | Partial / mixed | Clear / deliberate | |
| Provenance honesty Is the medium/status clear: documentary, staged, rendered, generated, diagrammatic or otherwise authored? | Absent / unclear | Partial / mixed | Clear / deliberate | |
| Cliché independence Would the idea still work without a single genre shorthand such as endless yellow rooms, VHS noise or explicit threat? | Absent / unclear | Partial / mixed | Clear / deliberate |
Failure modes
What a low score can reveal.
Failure is diagnostic here: it shows which part of the concept is not yet legible.
Cliché-only
The work uses familiar genre props but would collapse if they were removed.
Provenance-blind
A generated, staged or rendered image is allowed to imply documentary reality.