Slice · slice
Owner directive (2026-07-10), canonical. "Start by defining the biom, scenaries (Slices), their components interacting with its elements, the Loop Routine of it and the immersive transition between them." [src: wiki/development/prompts-archive/by-topic/knowledge-management-and-concept-modeling.md:471]
Content
A Slice is a scenery segment of a spatial-site: one bounded stretch of the journey, declared with everything it needs to live. Per OWNER-2026-07-10 a Slice is defined by four parts:
- Components + elements — its COMPONENTs (React / pods) interacting with its ELEMENTs (data), per the CodeLand ladder [src: wiki/engines/cognis-and-kernels.md:52-55];
- Behavior loops — "the Loop Routine of it": loops that give the slice life (routines of beings, physics events, dynamic events) — "sceneries running with Loops of behavior, so it shall literally be a drone flight over a live scenery" [src: ...knowledge-management-and-concept-modeling.md:461];
- Transitions — "the immersive transition between them": continuous, story-telling movement into adjacent slices ("continuous transition even over pages. with story telling transition" [src: ...:594]);
- The biome laws it inherits — the slice never redefines the environment, it instantiates it.
A Slice lives inside a scenery (the lived spatial environment); operationally it maps to a chapter of the render engine: the proven Royal Orbit build assigns each chapter a disjoint world-space slab, its own splat assets, and camera keys — "Each chapter owns a disjoint slab of world space along -Z so meshes never overlap and can co-exist while adjacent chapters are both resident" [src: HOS-Instance/packages/engine/src/engine/contracts.ts:166-178]. Slice content renders through holonprint loops; slice sequencing is declared in schema-genome-spatial-strand.
Composition
- uses: biome (inherited laws), holonprint (render method), loop (behavior routines), pad / pod (surfaces), cb-lenis + cb-gsap (scroll/transition tech)
- used-by: scenery (composed of slices), spatial-site (the journey = ordered slices), bp-001-spatial-site, sc-001-kernel-cogni-genome
See also
- scenery — the environment a slice segments
- cb-patterns-royal-orbit — proven slice/chapter patterns