The Gallery look follows its text with museum works

RDR-023 part 2, 2026-10-07. Mateo asked for the mood wording to be drafted and built, then reviewed in the pull request. Everything below is that draft. Each line is one string in src/core/passage-visuals/treatments.js, so a change to the wording is a one-line edit.

What a Gallery reading draws

Follow text keeps a reading in one family (R6). Part 1 held flame readings to flames. Before this change, a Gallery reading that followed its text also drew flames, which put it in another family.

Now the family is worked out from the reading's configuration:

• gallery: the Gallery look's Turrell shelf, or a shelf made only of museum collections (aic-…). Science shelves (sci-…) are photographs of the world, not paintings, so they never follow with paintings. An Astronomy family ("cosmic wonder") is deferred until readers have tested this (owner, 2026-10-08).
• flame: everything else, as before. That covers Living Flame, an empty shelf, and other engines.
• Also flame: a reading whose words draw imagery (a declared word fill). Its words fill from the room's pool, and a museum cue swaps that pool, so Follow would change what fills the words. Full validation caught exactly that: Fit's held image left the word mask.

A Gallery reading follows its text with one museum collection per passage, chosen by the passage's mood.

The mood lines

Mood	Collection	Line
Calm, or no clear signal	Landscapes (aic-landscapes)	Land, sea and sky with figures small or absent: calm, openness, distance, rest, reflection.
Ordinary, and joy	Monet & the Impressionists (aic-impressionism)	Light and weather in loose, bright brushwork: ordinary life, pleasure, the passing moment, release.
Agitation, conflict	Van Gogh & Post-Impressionists (aic-postimpressionism)	Saturated colour and emphatic structure: agitation, conflict, longing, a mind under strain.
Grief, the solemn	Old Masters (aic-oldmasters)	Weighty, formal painting on dark grounds: grief, gravity, faith, myth, the solemn and the tragic.

The moods are the same five that local direction already reads for flames, from the conductor's valence and arousal. The intensity band works as before.

What it does not do

• Jev. A Gallery reading follows its text locally and never sends it to Jev. Jev's request schema (score-protocol.js) offers flames only, and Kev on a reader's computer validates that schema. Offering museum works to Jev means a schema bump, which would break Kev until it updates. When that happens, Jev can also choose the subject collections (Ships, Knights, Portraits, Flowers, Animals, Astronomy), which need the text read rather than a mood measured.
• Colour. Museum works keep their own colours. The reading's colour theme still holds the page, the type and the chrome.
• Credits. Every work keeps its label and credit as the cortex draws them today (the credit rulings are unchanged).
• Offline. If a collection can't load, the scene that was showing holds, and for the Gallery look that is Turrell light. Nothing breaks.

For review

1. The four lines above.
2. The mood mapping. In particular, "ordinary" and "joy" both draw the Impressionists, at different intensities.
3. Whether Flowers (tenderness) should take calm-and-positive passages from Landscapes.

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