Chapter 04 / Density-gradient warning
Slide 18

Schlieren anomaly index

Turbulence shows up before failure.

Pre-failure density-gradient events per 1,000 frames

Knife-edge captures were sampled at matched exposure and thresholded for sharp silver shock-front movement.

+294% from baseline
80 60 40 20 0 events / 1k frames 18 27 39 48 62 71 T-30 T-24 T-18 T-12 T-06 T-01 minutes before mechanical cutoff 71 events at T-01 silver shock bands cross threshold
This is the Schlieren Shadowgraph design system, applied by Curio — a design-style library for AI agents. Full Schlieren Shadowgraph guide → designbycurio.com/learn/schlieren-shadowgraph-flow