THE GATE THAT MATTERS
Can anyone read this?
Aura draws an edge around what it sees, and claims that edge says one specific thing: whether the movement it just measured holds together or falls apart. This study checks whether that gets across — and, more importantly, whether it quietly reads as something we never claimed, like a mood or a diagnosis. Four minutes, fifteen questions.
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A warm, wide, continuous edge means the movement held together: steady, evenly paced, going somewhere, with the shape's appearance staying put.
A cool, tight, broken edge means the movement fell apart: arriving in bursts, disagreeing with its own direction, with the appearance being rewritten as it went.
A plain grey edge means there was not enough evidence to say anything at all.
It is never a feeling, a health state, a personality or a verdict. That is exactly what this study is testing.
Each question shows a real synthetic scene with one property set deliberately, because varying one thing at a time is the only way to find out what you are responding to. Everything runs on your device. Results stay in this browser until you copy them out.
No camera. No account. Nothing sent anywhere.
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Which layer shows movement that holds together better?
WHAT THIS SESSION SHOWED
One person, one session.
These are the gates this project wrote down before building the instrument. One session cannot pass or fail them — that needs many people, counterbalanced, with denominators reported. This is what your session alone did.
A comprehension result is not a validation of the underlying measurement, and liking the look is not understanding it. If people read a feeling into the edge, the edge is wrong, however well it scores on telling two layers apart. What the edge actually encodes.