Fingerprint ⌾
Every Output on PD carries a Fingerprint: the platform's objective read of the artwork itself. It doesn't come from metadata, trait lists, or anyone's opinion — the platform looks at the Output's actually rendered pixels and measures what is really there. Nothing is declared and nothing is hand-tagged, so any two Fingerprints on the platform can be compared honestly, whoever made the work.
How: Open an Artwork ▸ + More ▸ Attributes — the Fingerprint is its own wall of readings.
You'll find it on the Output's character sheet (Artwork ▸ + More ▸ Attributes), as its own wall of readings.
Reads As
The Fingerprint leads with the sentence a human would say: "two blue squares and a yellow circle." The platform finds the distinct regions of color in the render, classifies each countable shape, reads the arrangement — stripes, a field, a scatter — and writes the plain-language description from what it found.
Color
The dominant color and the accent behind it, the palette size (monochrome through polychrome), measured warmth, the relationship between the Output's two leading colors — and Swatches: the Output's actual colors as hex chips, sampled from its own render. Tap one and the hex is copied.
Light
Brightness, saturation, contrast, and tone — plus the photographic value key (high-key, low-key) that neither reading shows alone.
Composition
Where the visual weight sits (gravity), left–right symmetry, negative space (air), fine grain (texture), and orientation.
The taste axes
The Fingerprint places every Output on four poles-pairs — the same four axes for every artwork on PD:
| Axis | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Geometric ↔ Organic | how straight-ruled vs free-flowing the Output's edges run |
| Colorful ↔ Monochrome | how much color the Output actually carries |
| Dense ↔ Sparse | how full the frame is, and how much is happening in it |
| Structured ↔ Chaotic | how ordered the composition reads |
Measured, not opined. These axes are the beginning of taste as data: because every Output gets the same objective read, a collection's holdings can be read the same way — the profile of what a collector actually collects, built from the art itself.
Against the edition
Readings don't float alone. Where an Output's brightness, contrast, or texture sits against the rest of its edition, the Fingerprint says so — "34% · top 8%" — computed from the real stored reads across the set.
What it powers
The Fingerprint is working all over the platform: color grouping in every gallery, the light / mood / orientation sorts, how the resident characters literally see the Output in front of them, and the taste reads that compare art by what it actually is.