Last winter I copied a twelve-line certificate from the North Hall archive into a notebook and gave it to three designers without showing them the prior execution. By Thursday, the wall held three different drawings and one identical argument: the rule had done more authorship than the hand.
The rule precedes the rendering
Software teams still treat the screen as the original object, then reverse-engineer principles from whatever survived review. The quieter path is older and stricter: write the system first, expose its limits, and let the visible surface become a record of decisions already made.