Scattering

Definition

Scattering carries Focus from Directing toward Diffusing when a coherent, directable foreground disperses until the scoped target can no longer be held. Direction loses enough organization or continuity that the target no longer occupies a workable foreground. Chosen widening, release, rest, peripheral awareness, or movement among several targets does not establish Scattering while coherent direction remains available at the declared scope. When the scoped target itself loses its former workable foreground, the transition can be Scattering even when it is chosen or contextually fitting. The label does not decide whether dispersion arose internally or through external interruption.

Glossary source /core/Scattering/definition

Orthography

case

capitalized-always

evidence

contextual

lowercase when

Used as an ordinary English action rather than to name the directed Icosa centering transition.

Usage

do not use for

The endpoint state, the inverse direction, a generic intervention, or a guaranteed sequence of change.

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use when

Naming one directed transition on an axis between an under or over pole and center.

Metadata

Axis

• axis.focus

Inverse

• path.gathering

Pole direction

center-to-under