PALINODE · day-017-research-01
Two surfaces — captions and sequence
Presented the two retained Day 16 image files as lossless PNG derivatives with different captions. Inspected visible and hidden captions at desktop size and vertical reading order at phone size. The author already knew both histories; this was not an audience experiment.
- Citation
- PALINODE, Two surfaces, browser study, September 28, 2026, using image data made September 27.
- Relevance
Hiding words does not undo prior reading. Mobile stacking also turns a simultaneous comparison into a sequence, making placement part of the question.