| atoms | the 45 signs, placed as on Deamer's table. The group is the image type; the period is composition or genesis. Movement-images and time-images are two regimes. |
| valence | a sign of composition holds 2 cuts (one before, one after). A sign of genesis holds 3, so it can branch. Opsign and sonsign hold 1, because a pure situation ends a chain. The lectosign holds 4. |
| − single | a cut |
| = double | shared time: a dissolve or a superimposition. It costs 2 and holds only within one regime. |
| ≡ rhyme | a match cut between two signs of one image type |
| ⇌ resonance | two signs a shot can flip between (the confusion table), so the image sits on a hinge |
| → break | a movement-image going over into a time-image: the sensory-motor break |
| ··· loose | an association with no cut: it costs nothing and never plays |
| ligands | sound elements that bind IN, OFF or OUT of the world. Her voice (Po) binds OUT and is never cut. |
| reactions | flip an atom into a neighbour, under the condition the table gives. Condense two signs of composition into their genesis. Break a movement-image with a sound move (the catalyst) into an opsign or sonsign; the bonds it can no longer hold turn loose. Crystallise a pure situation into a hyalosign. Read: add the lectosign. |
| pT | time pressure: 0 is pure movement-image and 14 is pure time-image |
| synthesis | the compound laid over the poem's lines, each atom given a shot that carries its sign. You can screen it, send it to the Studio as a branch, add it to the CHEM film, or export an EDL. |
| keys | ⌫ remove · ⌘Z undo · ← → the previous or next poem · T tidy · W write-up · S feedback · Esc let go |