Lattice Canvas is the third path to a scenario, alongside Guided and Builder. It is the path for stewards who have a thesis and want to construct it — to make the math visible, to weight the relationships, to read the shape of the graph and see what it is saying.
The three regions
The screen divides into three.
The left rail is your Signal Library — every signal you are subscribed to, simple signals first below indices. Indices sit at the top because they carry more interpretive weight. Drag any row onto the canvas to instantiate a node.
The center is the canvas itself. A slow-breathing grid sits behind your work — the Numen grid — so you always know where you are even when the canvas is empty.
The right rail is the live preview. As you build, a name and thesis sentence compose in real time. Underneath, counts of nodes and edges plus a one-word pressure read tell you the shape of the graph at a glance.
The three tools
In the header, three tools — Select, Connect, Pan — chosen with the V, C, and H keys.
In Select mode, click a node to inspect it. Drag it to move it. Use the priority controls in the right rail to set how much that node weights inside the graph.
In Connect mode, click a source node, then click a target node. The edge appears with the type and weight you have currently selected in the right rail. Five edge types: leads-to, inverse, amplifies, dampens, contingent-on. Five weights, 1 through 5.
In Pan mode, click and drag the canvas to move the view. Pinch or Ctrl-wheel to zoom in Select mode.
Generating
When the graph is ready — at least two nodes, at least one edge — press Generate Scenario in the right rail. The graph passes to the Builder pre-populated: the name and thesis are filled, the signal map is populated, the priorities transfer. You finish the scenario the way you would in the Builder and save.
The graph itself is preserved on the scenario. You can reopen the canvas from the scenario detail page to refine and regenerate.
The math is the same math
Lattice Canvas does not run separate math. The same scoring engine that powers Signal Watch priority, Context News ranking, and Scenarios probability runs over the topology you build. The work is comparable to every other scenario in your library because the math underneath is the same.
Keyboard
- V — select tool
- C — connect tool
- H — pan tool
- Backspace or Delete — remove the selected node or edge
- Escape — clear selection or cancel a connection in progress