Instrument 007 · slices → form → read
The toolkit, pointed at rebuilding an object. Illustrative slices stand in for a scan — reveal them and a cell (a complete stand-in) comes into view; then hold and turn it, decompose it into its parts (the geodesic explode), and read each part's coordinate — here an authored label, not a measurement. Perturb a part and its coordinate shifts by a rule. This is the reading half, working end to end — the imaging front-end that would feed it real slices (an MRI or tomography source) is a separate instrument it couples to. So: the method on a stand-in now; a real specimen needs the scanner. It reports the present rather than measuring it; a real forward run needs dynamics that aren't integrated here. Illustrative — not an imaging device.