CH.02
· READING THE GLOW — FIELD PROTOCOL
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// what the dark is telling you
Four things the bloom proves.
01
The light
finds what scrubbing hides.
Hemoglobin iron catalyzes the reaction down to
1 part in 1,000,000
— long after a surface looks clean.
02
Read it
in the first thirty seconds.
Each spray glows for roughly
30s
, then fades — capture the long exposure before the bloom dies.
03
Pattern
outranks presence.
Cast-off arcs, drag smears, void shadows — shape tells the story
a positive alone cannot.
04
Confirm it
before you call it blood.
Luminol is presumptive — bleach and copper glow too. Run a
confirmatory assay
every time.
This is the
Luminol CSI Glow
design system, applied by
Curio Design
— a design-style library for AI agents. Full Luminol CSI Glow guide →
designbycurio.com/learn/luminol-forensic-glow