Focus is explicit
The active lens names the interpretation being applied. Changing the view is visible and reversible.
Optical interfaces for consequential maps
What changes
when we look through
a decision?
Lenses make a graph selective without pretending the rest disappears. Focus reveals one reading; the periphery preserves context, uncertainty, and competing explanations.
Working proposition The lens is both a filter and a claim about how the viewer is seeing.
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Scenario prism
What could we achieve by focusing here?
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Design grammarNot decoration. Orientation.
A visual language for bounded attention.
Depth carries confidence
Sharpness, glow, and contrast describe evidence quality without converting uncertainty into a hidden score.
Aperture sets scope
A narrow opening supports a bounded decision. Widening it invites more context without implying universal truth.
Periphery stays present
Filtered nodes remain visible, resisting the common graph failure where selection becomes erasure.