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Visual credits

The images behind SHIFT.

Original generated artwork and interface illustrations appear alongside selected photography and footage across SHIFT. Stock credits below link to their creators and original sources.

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The source-to-conversation journey

Echo is rendered from the same device code and stylesheet used on SHIFT and in its extension, with scroll-driven sample data. The named readers, notes, timestamps and conversation are examples, not testimonials or a recording of someone’s account. The tutorial preview belongs to Jack Roberts and opens at its original YouTube source from the item.

The source-to-quest sequence reuses the real item frames, ratings, Companion quest card, Canvas drawing primitives, stats chart and interest form. Edits stay in the example. Whole-quest guest links and the expanded guest profile are labelled product previews. The Story reaction is an illustrated sequence, not a generated HeyGen video or a real account.

The curiosity collection

The six images used in the public example collection were created with OpenAI built-in Imagegen on 2026-10-06. They illustrate sample discoveries; they are not user content or product screenshots.

Generation prompt

Use case: ads-marketing. Create ONE photographic mood atlas used as imagery inside a website's example collection. Exactly 3 equal columns by 2 equal rows, six independent edge-to-edge square editorial photographs, no gutters, borders, labels, text, typography, frames, contact-sheet markings or UI. The total atlas is landscape 3:2. Each cell is a separate carefully art-directed photograph that fully occupies its exact one-sixth of the image; absolutely no objects crossing cell boundaries. Top left: immense curling translucent cobalt blue ocean wave viewed close to the surface, a tiny warm sliver of afternoon sun at its edge, analog photographic texture, dynamic and tactile. Top middle: close-up of a sculptural orange translucent ribbon looping elegantly over warm off-white paper, hard raking shadows, sophisticated minimal abstract album cover. Top right: tranquil brutalist circular concrete staircase and an oval aperture to deep blue sky, compelling architectural editorial photograph, strong geometry. Bottom left: intimate macro of an open cream paper book, pages fanned, soft sculptural natural shadow, no readable printed words, quiet intellectual atmosphere. Bottom middle: luminous small crescent moon above a desert dune in blue twilight, beautiful rich powder blue sky and fine warm sand, restrained and photographic not sci-fi. Bottom right: overhead studio photograph of a person's hands sketching a simple organic object on an off-white sheet with a charcoal pencil, terracotta tabletop, natural candid detail, no words, no lettering. This is the content of a thoughtful visual collection about light, form and creative ideas, premium editorial photography. Diverse compositions and textures, vivid but refined. All six have equal emphasis. No recognizable logos or branded products. No imitation of any previous SHIFT artwork. Keep the exact six-cell grid clean.

Earlier collection artwork

The collection of glass, metal and paper plates was generated for SHIFT with OpenAI built-in Imagegen on 2026-10-06. It is editorial artwork, not a product screenshot. The example covers are original interface illustrations.

Generation prompt

Use case: stylized-concept. Original premium website hero artwork for SHIFT, a personal knowledge collection. A radically minimal sculptural still life called 'The collection': seven oversized thin rectangular archival plates arranged in a graceful loose descending spiral, each a different proportion (portrait book, landscape cinema frame, small square image). They float and overlap at believable oblique angles like physical museum artifacts, not digital UI windows. Some are richly textured smoked glass with fine polished metallic edges, one translucent icy blue glass, one restrained burnished copper-orange, two pale pearlescent ceramic, a single plate has a fine embossed waveform pattern. No words, text, labels, logos, icons or photos on the plates. Beautiful realistic light refraction, precise edge highlights, deep black shadows, very subtle film grain. Modern collectible industrial design, high-end editorial CGI photographed with a 90mm lens, not fantasy, not sci-fi cliché. Wide 3:2 landscape. The entire sculptural arrangement is on the right two-thirds, trailing toward lower center. Left third is empty near-black charcoal negative space for website headline. Deep black-blue seamless studio background, no horizon. Sophisticated composition with real weight, depth, warm-cool contrast. Avoid tree, roots, branches, orb, planets, stars, grid, circuit board, rainbow, purple, neon glow, beams, excessive particles, mockup screens, chrome sphere, tunnel, portal, human, decorative letters. This must feel curated and tangible, with a distinct strong silhouette.

Interest imagery

Every category and subcategory in the taxonomy carries a photograph. All 118 are by Pexels contributors, used under the same licence and served from SHIFT rather than hotlinked.

Interest footage

The category tiles play a short loop behind their label. 13 clips by Pexels contributors, re-encoded into a seamless loop and served from SHIFT rather than hotlinked.

Companion avatars

The companion's full view can show a 3D avatar. All three models are free to use, served from SHIFT rather than hotlinked, and unchanged.

Generated stills

A folder with nothing in it yet has no thumbnails to show, and a comment section nobody has written in has nothing to draw either. Both wear a still of their own. These 5 pictures are AI generated — no photographer, no licence, and nothing to credit except the model that drew them and the words it was given.