Field Guide | Updated June 2026
MCVA / AMCVA / HOLD
MCVA reads where morphology preserves process.
AMCVA protects where it does not.
HOLD preserves uncertainty when the evidence is not enough yet.
What this is: a disciplined vocabulary for where morphology may safely speak, where it does not safely speak, and where the honest answer is still "not yet."
What this is not: a license to impose a process reading on every pattern, every image, or every noisy dataset.
MCVA
MCVA stands for morphology-constrained vocabulary analysis. It is the lane for cases where morphology is sufficiently preserved, segmented, and contextualized to support cautious process interpretation.
AMCVA
AMCVA is not a failure state. It is how the system refuses false geometry. Often it means the trace may be present, but the measurement stack is not trustworthy enough yet.
AMCVA-A: Absence
No readable morphology is present: blank fields, uniform surfaces, or insufficient visible structure.
AMCVA-O: Obscuration
The morphology may exist but is hidden by blur, low resolution, glare, shadow, compression, noise, or segmentation failure.
AMCVA-E: Erasure
Morphology was likely removed or overwritten through polishing, resurfacing, healing, erosion, filtering, cleanup, or threshold collapse.
AMCVA-D: Domain mismatch
Structure exists, but the current vocabulary cannot responsibly interpret it without stronger domain baselines or process metadata.
AMCVA-G: Geometric dominance
A non-fractal or competing geometric regime dominates the image: grid, lattice, wave, ring, spiral, Voronoi packing, lamination, and so on.
AMCVA-C: Competing geometry
Fractalish-like morphology may be present, but another geometry interferes with interpretation.
AMCVA-K: Complementary geometry
Another geometry helps explain the visible morphology rather than simply obscuring it.
AMCVA-H: Human/capture artifact
The visible structure is likely produced or strongly distorted by camera angle, lens behavior, compression, stitching, thresholding, interface overlay, or other capture artifacts.
HOLD
HOLD preserves uncertainty. Use it when the case may be relevant but the evidence is ambiguous, the segmentation is weak, the baseline is missing, or better timepoints could materially change the interpretation.
Guardrails
- A fractal reading is not forced. It must be earned.
- Similarity is not identity.
- Fractal dimension is not enough.
- AMCVA does not mean nothing is there. It often means the trace is present, but the measurement stack is not yet trustworthy.