The present contains a repertoire of reachable futures.
AMPLIFICATION IS REACHABLE
At least one sampled phase direction exceeded the intact donor-pattern future.
REVERSAL IS REACHABLE
At least one sampled direction crossed past the native-host future.
BOTH FROM ONE STATE
The same visible body opened both developmental signs under different hidden directions.
This is not a weak average effect. It is a large response geometry: mean best-to-worst span 2.739 [+2.218, +3.261] across sixteen independent families.
Most starting states opened exits on both sides.
Each tile is one reciprocal state: one organism, one reservoir mode, and one developmental direction. Orange–cyan tiles contained at least one phase direction that beat the intact future and another that crossed behind the native future. These are twelve sampled exits, not an exhaustive search—the accessible repertoire is probably larger.
The intact hidden pattern is one route—not the edge of possibility.
BEST SAMPLED DIRECTION
Mean gain beyond intact [+0.976, +1.377].
WORST SAMPLED DIRECTION
Mean change below intact [-1.949, -1.178].
Expansion and compactification have almost the same response bandwidth: 2.750 versus 2.728. The geometry is not confined to one morphological tendency.
The branch is faintly legible early, then crystallizes.
Rank memory asks a simple question: among the twelve hidden directions, are the eventual winners and losers already ordered the same way? The q32 ordering correlates 0.171 [+0.078, +0.262] with q128. It rises to 0.327 by q64 and 0.586 by q96.
Even the direction winning at q32 finishes q128 an average +0.193 above its state’s twelve-direction mean. Developmental commitment is emerging before terminal form is settled.
Being closer to the intact pattern barely predicts the future.
PATTERN SIMILARITY ↔ OUTCOME
Within-state correlation [-0.003, +0.094]. Fourier-phase directions with similar energy and similar gross similarity can lead somewhere completely different.
THE INTERPRETATION
The relevant object is not a scalar amount of intact code. It is the alignment between a hidden spatial direction and the local developmental flow of that organism.
Ask whether organisms share a phase vocabulary.
The current atlas used independent local directions. Next, apply the same twelve phase fields across every organism. If the same direction repeatedly preserves, amplifies, or reverses development, Flow Lenia has a shared morphogenetic syntax. If rankings scramble completely across organisms, the code is individualized developmental memory.
Then actively replay the best and worst directions over longer futures and into unrelated bodies. That turns this atlas from a map of possibility into a test of transferable developmental control.
We have moved from “does hidden composition matter?” to “what is the coordinate system of reachable form?”