{
  "id": "photo.visual",
  "term": "photo",
  "sense": "visual",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "photo",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a mark that stays with a pattern of energy that was in a place at a time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "marks.visual",
      "matter.substance",
      "energy.capacity",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "persist.continue",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the mark of matter stays with the pattern of energy that occurred in a place at a time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "enduring image",
      "spatiotemporal trace",
      "formed persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1977 Voyager Golden Record carries encoded images of Earth's life and culture as etched patterns in gold-plated copper, launched into interstellar space.",
      "domain": "space"
    },
    {
      "text": "The latent image in a Kodak Tri-X 35mm film negative forms when silver halide crystals trap photons during a 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk.",
      "domain": "photography"
    },
    {
      "text": "A 2023 LIGO detection records gravitational wave patterns from two black holes merging 1.3 billion years ago, stored as laser interference data.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "marks.visual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "visual.perceptual",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "photo",
    "photos"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Components were added to align with the definition. All concepts are already present in the EmergenceLexicon and are constitutive. The definition remains unchanged as it correctly captures the emergen"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-photo.visual"
}