The FlowState Marble System
Specimen board for MARBLE-SYSTEM.md — every marble below is rendered live in code with V2's own recipe (conic body, vein swirl, specular glint, rotation derived from the number). Read a marble in two beats: material = what it is, finish = what state it's in. Color is identity.
1 · The Master Marble — FlowState Logix
The umbrella, and the logo. The only spectrum body, the only contained marbles, the only marble that moves at rest. Every marble below is a simplification of this one.
FlowState Logix — the Master Marble
Spectrum body: the system's recorded palettes blended as waves, not segments. Contained marbles: five member marbles suspended in the glass (GEN white, BHOS orange, Argent amber, Kraken red, Logix green). Twin counter-rotating veils and the orbiting current ring. Below 48px it renders as a plain indigo-cyan stone — the spectrum is for full size.
2 · The Types — material tells you what it is
Company
Polished stone — the baseline. Conic body in the brand's two colors, one vein swirl, full glint. GEN is the reference: white marble, slate return, and the recorded gold vein.
Company
Same stone, different identity — BHOS orange body, blue return. Color is the brand's own, never a house default for someone else's marble.
Project
Cut stone. A rim band in the secondary — the cut edge where the build was worked from the block — and sharper veins: facets, not clouds. Same identity, visibly manufactured.
Partner Line
A peer's stone at full polish, wearing the solid alliance ring in its secondary. The ring is the sovereignty boundary: allied to the system, not owned by it.
Person
Glass. The parent company's slate shows through as the solid core (face or initials live there); one personal thread in his own accent crosses the glass once. People are read through where they belong — the one thread is what's theirs alone.
Concept
Frosted, unpolished, no glint yet. The palette is in there, seen through frost — smeared swirl, washed color, dashed outline. Nothing shines on a thing that doesn't exist yet.
The Sentinel Seat
A company marble at security size plus the watch pulse — the only sanctioned motion besides the Master's. The treatment belongs to the seat (the hub that sees everything), not the brand.
Group — the Vessel
Not a member — the vessel holding them. Navy glass dome, the count as its core, and up to five member colors dimmed under the wash: the container shows the light of what it contains.
Ghost — Unnumbered
The empty setting. No swirl, no color — even when the brand's colors are known. A number is identity and color is identity's clothing; a ghost is never dressed in a fake issuance.
3 · Status — one lifecycle, finish over material
Same company, same palette (Manifestic, P-317808) — only the finish changes. The lifecycle runs Concept → Prospect → Active ⇄ Inactive → Retired or Removed, and its commercial heart is one rule: Active = paying. Not paying is Inactive — the marble stays on the map with its lights off.
Active
The type treatment at full finish. Nothing added, nothing dimmed.
Prospect
Saturation × .85 plus the dashed ring — a real, solid business whose agreement with the system isn't settled. Glint stays: the business itself shines.
Partner × Prospect
The dashed prospect ring renders outside the solid alliance ring — the unsettled question wraps the settled boundary, and both stay legible. Solid = settled; dashed = not yet.
Inactive
The lights off. Matte, dark, color at half strength, glint dead — but full size and still on the map. Across a crowded graph it reads instantly: every other marble shines, this one doesn't. No ring: nothing is unsettled, the relationship exists — it simply isn't paying. Payment resumes, the shine comes back.
Retired → Archive
Grayscale, dimmed, a size step down, glint killed — and it leaves the live graph for the Archive. Shelved exactly as it was: a retired marble is never re-colored, and its record stays whole (P-312817 is the specimen in V2).
Removed
Not rendered at all — no marble, no gray, no ghost, no placeholder; this empty slot exists only on this board. What remains is a registry tombstone: the number (never reused), the name, the removal date, and the reason. The path for mistakes and duplicates — gone from the graph, honest in the record.
4 · The Flow — currents between marbles
Descent current
A 3px stream blended parent color → child color, dash-flow running downward. Flow runs from the holder to the held, never up.
Family line
A dashed current in the band member's primary (CHE gold, here) — kinship across tiers. Dashed because the line is belonging, not reporting.
Works-with braid
Two intertwined streams, one in each partner's primary. Braiding means neither side is the parent — the partnership edge, drawn level.
Specimen board for the FlowState Marble System · spec: MARBLE-SYSTEM.md · renderer lineage: FlowState V2 (.orb recipe, rotation = (n × 47) mod 360) · palettes: v2/colors.json, recorded brand colors only · concept — no registry data was changed to make this board.