Material — the full vocabulary

Recorded vocabulary snapshot. This page is generated from a saved database extract, not a live connection. Rebuilding the site does not refresh its measurements. Draft wording comes from review notes; check recorded decisions for approved meaning. Stored values alone do not prove current prompt or filter behavior.

There are 9 registered values and nothing in use outside them.

Where it is stored: content_material.material — 98 rows carry a value.

How the registry and the data line up: 7 of the 9 registered values appear in the data, and nothing appears that is not registered.

What this describes

— no definition written yet.

The values

A bold value carries more than its row — tagging rules, a confusion map, or worked examples — and has its own entry under “Value details” below.

Value	Stored as	In use	Recorded wording
Flat	flat	51	—
Photoreal	photoreal	15	—
Matte	matte	11	—
Glossy	glossy	8	—
Textured	textured	7	—
Chrome	chrome	4	—
Reflective	reflective	2	—
Illustrative	illustrative	—	working note, not a definition: LOOK: it looks drawn (canon §1 pair: illustration=craft vs illustrative=look; X1 #4)
Collage	collage	—	LOOK: layered-cutout aesthetic over any method (X1 #6, Joe: a look not a method; true paper-cut = stop_motion+collage)

Value details

Photoreal

photoreal · 15 in use · kind: material

— no definition written yet.

Inclusion guidance — Recorded wording: Rendered/synthetic work whose result reads as photographic/real.

Exclusion guidance — Recorded wording: NOT a claim about capture: live-action footage is trivially photographic — reserve photoreal for rendered/synthetic work reading as real. Origin (ai_generated) is a separate facet.

Easily mistaken for:

• content_origin.ai_generated (provenance, not look)
• dimensionality.3d (space, not finish)

Worked examples:

• photoreal 3D product render
• CG environment indistinguishable from plate

Illustrative

illustrative · not used yet · kind: material

The registry records a working note here rather than a definition: “LOOK: it looks drawn (canon §1 pair: illustration=craft vs illustrative=look; X1 #4)”

Inclusion guidance — Recorded wording: The result LOOKS drawn/illustrated, regardless of how frames were made.

Exclusion guidance — Recorded wording: NOT the craft of Illustration (creative_disciplines: someone drew it as the deliverable) and NOT execution=cel (frames actually hand-drawn).

Easily mistaken for:

• creative_disciplines Illustration (craft)
• execution.cel (method)

Worked examples:

• 3D render shaded to look hand-drawn
• vector-look motion piece

Collage

collage · not used yet · kind: material

Recorded description: LOOK: layered-cutout aesthetic over any method (X1 #6, Joe: a look not a method; true paper-cut = stop_motion+collage)

Inclusion guidance — Recorded wording: Layered-cutout aesthetic composed (usually digitally) over any production method.

Exclusion guidance — Recorded wording: A true physical paper-cut piece is execution=stop_motion PLUS material=collage — the look and the method are separate chips.

Easily mistaken for:

• execution.stop_motion (physical method)

Worked examples:

• digital layered-cutout social spot
• mixed photo/paper-texture layout

Registered, never used

2 of the 9 registered values have never been written to a row. For a young axis that is expected; for an old one it is a question worth asking.

illustrative, collage

How complete this page is

Of 9 registered values, 1 carry a written definition (11%) and 3 carry tagging rules (33%). A further 1 hold a working note where a definition should be — a spec reference or a rename history, useful to whoever wrote it and no help to a reader asking what the value means. These counts are calculated from the saved database extract. They describe that snapshot, not a fresh database check.

Where to look next

• What this is FOR, in plain language — the Content chapter.
• Every other vocabulary — the vocabulary index.
• What is still undecided about it — the open questions.
• The exact tables and columns — the data reference.