Curtis — the figure reworked five genuinely different ways, every one painted from the same live grade object (the words under each figure are identical because the grades are). The heart sits center with its apex down-left and the lobes symmetric around it in all five — half the "weird" was the old seat. The live Fleet Command face keeps the current figure until you pick; your pick installs the same day.
The BioDigital line
A translucent figure — frosted glass skin, bright rim light — with the organs solid and softly lit inside it. Grade reads as luminosity: a stressed organ glows amber; the unmeasured nerve goes frosted and dark inside the glass.
The Netter line
An illustrator’s plate that happens to be alive: warm-ink drawing — gyri on the brain, bronchial trees in the lobes, vessel stubs on the heart, vertebra blocks on the cord — with the grade laid over it as a wash. The ink alone carries the figure in grayscale.
The current language, mastered
The control: today’s flat-fill language with its geometry perfected — heart moved to center with the apex down-left, lobes symmetric, proportions corrected. If this one wins, the lesson is the language was fine and the geometry wasn’t.
The premium product line
A matte slate mannequin with the organs set in as sculpted pieces — soft highlights and drop shadows, shading carried in black and white only so the grade hue stays true underneath. Form from light, no ink outlines.
The schematic line
The body as territory: thin borders, faint latitude lines at the joints, organs as bounded regions, the nerve as a route with station nodes, the witness as a beacon. The most dashboard-native of the five — honest about being a schematic.
Brain STRESSED · DIVERGENT — Breath STRESSED · 8 breathing, 1 unsensed, 0 stalled — Heart STRESSED · DEGRADED — Nerve UNMEASURED · STATED ABSENCE — Witness RESTING · CORROBORATED
Set built Sat Nov 14 from the Stylist’s direction set (filed Fri Nov 13 ~9:23 PM PST, ~/workspace/visual-design/redesign/VITALS-FIGURE-DIRECTION-SET.md). Candidates on this preview path only — nothing on the live face moved.