Playable prototype
Pick a colour. Hugh's is better.
Hugh is an eloquent, thoroughly assured tastemaker. He receives a colour, offers a graciously backhanded compliment, and explains why his chosen shade is more satisfying. The two swatches stay visible, so the claim has something concrete beside it.
Colour and character have different jobs
The colour engine resolves the input against a frozen reference, assigns its family and chooses a deterministic replacement in that family. Hugh receives those colour facts and composes the response.
The user's swatch keeps its actual colour and a family label. Hugh's swatch carries the supplied Pantone name. The engine owns the colours; Hugh supplies the wording and rationale.
| Part | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Selected colour | Preserve the actual input |
| Colour engine | Match, assign family, rank and choose the replacement |
| Hugh's brief | Establish character and the kind of response to develop |
| Generated response | Connect the supplied colours through Hugh's voice |
| Evaluation | Inspect the response alongside its facts and instructions |
Giving Hugh room to compose
The retained authorial brief contains five character directions. They describe his manner, taste and response qualities. The later adaptation keeps those directions while leaving sentence construction to the model.
That decision makes a useful research boundary. Fixed colour facts can hold steady while the language is examined for coherence, meaningful rationale and character. A mechanically usable response still leaves those behavioural questions open.
Making correction inspectable
The research composer preserves the request, returned text, colour facts and settings. Attributed judgments are recorded alongside the original response. In the documented feedback method, selected observations from a completed pulse can become fixed context for the following pulse.
This gives the next comparison a visible starting point: what was supplied, what Hugh said, what was noticed, and which observations were carried forward.
Following the response
Diagram
Colour facts, then Hugh’s composition
Read the diagram
A picked hex enters the deterministic colour engine. Fixed colour facts reach Hugh’s composer, with the legacy fixed line omitted. Composition records can be printed or preserved in a pulse. The primary assistant judges the response and facts, records the verdict, and imports the evidence for review. Selected observations can be frozen as feedback for the next pulse. Historical colour evaluations have a separate path.
Sources & further reading
- Huemiliator project overviewProject documentation
- Hugh’s authorial promptProject documentation
- Colour facts and free-text compositionProject documentation