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The previous notation — kept as period work
As drawn in March 2026. Some tags have changed since.
The collection's current notation — the drawn plates you see on every card — is taught on the notation page. What follows is the collection's previous notation, the round genome glyphs of early 2026, kept as period work: each glyph was a portrait of a problem's structural DNA, with eight concentric layers from the domains at the core to the temporal dynamics at the halo. Here are two of those glyphs read side by side.
| Layer | What you see | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Center | 3 filled circles — a larger cluster | energy, environment, manufacturing |
| Inner ring | 5 dots in a band | national (5 = national scale) |
| Inner ring | 1 short arc | multi-institution |
| Mid spines | 3 radial spines, each with a different end marker | regulatory, technical, economic |
| Mid arcs | 2 dashed arcs | regulatory-mismatch, not-attempted |
| Outer petals | 3 petal ellipses | process, materials, policy |
| Outer markers | 1 marker | proof-of-concept |
| Halo | 1 dashed ring | worsening |
| Layer | What you see | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Center | 1 single dot — compact center | health |
| Inner ring | Dense band — 8 + 3 dots in two clusters | global (8) + community (3) |
| Inner ring | 1 short arc | multi-institution |
| Mid spines | 4 radial spines — visibly more "spiny" | behavioral, equity, infrastructure, economic |
| Mid arcs | 3 dashed arcs, more coverage around the ring | wrong-stakeholder, ignored-context, adoption-barrier |
| Outer petals | 4 petal ellipses — a fuller corona | design, systems-redesign, cost-reduction, behavior-change |
| Outer markers | 1 marker | design-proposal |
| Halo | 1 dashed ring | worsening |
Wind blade has a 3-dot cluster (multi-domain problem spanning energy / environment / manufacturing); cervical cancer has a single tight dot (pure health domain). Multi-domain problems look more “nucleated.”
The cervical cancer brief shows a denser blue dot band because it operates at two scales (global + community = 11 dots vs. 5 for national alone). More dots = more scale complexity.
Cervical cancer has 4 spines radiating out vs. 3 — visually “spikier,” reflecting that it faces more categories of constraint (including behavioral and equity, which the engineering problem doesn’t have).
The health brief has more amber arcs and more violet petals, making the mid-to-outer rings denser and more layered. This reflects a problem with more documented failure modes and more types of breakthroughs needed — a hallmark of complex socio-technical problems vs. primarily technical ones.
Both have identical stakeholder arcs (multi-institution), temporal halos (worsening), and single tractability markers. These shared structural genes are exactly the kind of cross-domain pattern PGP is designed to surface — an energy-sector materials problem and a global health equity problem that share the same stakeholder complexity, temporal urgency, and tractability level.