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Materials

The live material registry in drawing and model registers.

Every material in the registry is browsable at /materials, one card per substance, rendered by the same interpreter a model gets. A card shows the substance's own surface — how rough it is, what pattern it is read by, whether light passes through — and the value ladder that moves it from 20 to 92 without changing what it is made of.

A material states two things: what it is made of and how light it is. of names a substance, value names a rung. The substance owns the colour family and the finish; the rung owns lightness. Both are generated from lib/materials.mjs and lib/theme.mjs, which is why the gallery and a compiled model can never disagree about a colour.

See 00 · Entity schema for the full substance list and the materialdef fields.