Rockhounding Map
Sites, access, collecting rules, clubs, and evidence attached to every location.
Specimen Box Studio
Design the box you actually want.
Add three photographs or thirty. Move, overlap, rotate, resize, duplicate, and layer real catalogue images on a box you size yourself.
- real catalogue photographs
- saved on this device
- visual layout only—not a fit test
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Set the box
Entered dimensions set the canvas proportion only. Photographs are not to scale, and this studio does not test clearance or physical fit.
What does the light do?
Luster is the way a mineral surface reflects light. It is not the mineral’s color.
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Turn it under one light
- Use a clean, dry surface.
- Hold the specimen below one lamp or beside a bright window.
- Turn it slowly. Watch the brightest part of the reflection.
- Choose the photograph that behaves most like your specimen.
A photograph freezes one light angle. Use these as reference points, then confirm with the specimen in your hand.
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Two easy mix-ups
Metallic or vitreous? Metallic looks like metal. Vitreous looks like glass.
Pearly or silky? Pearly follows broad sheets. Silky follows fine parallel fibers.
One specimen can show more than one luster on different surfaces. Record the surface you actually observed.
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Use at least one more clue
Luster can narrow the possibilities, but it cannot identify a mineral by itself. Add hardness, streak, or cleavage before comparing matches.
No luster observation saved yet.
Save a luster observation, then add any property you actually tested.
06Optional: specific gravityUseful when several minerals still fit the other observations.
Specific gravity compares a specimen’s density with water. Use this test only for a sound, water-safe specimen that can be fully suspended without touching the container.
specific gravity = dry mass ÷ (dry mass − suspended mass)specific gravity—Enter your two measurements to calculate.
Skip this test for soluble, porous, friable, coated, or water-sensitive specimens. Remove bubbles and keep the specimen clear of the container.
Lumen Orchard · dawn one
Crystal Garden: First Resonance
Restore one living crystal to a neglected alien orchard, then carry it to the Cabinet House.
Fictional ecology · real catalogue specimens remain separateField journal
Today at Lumen Orchard
- Arrival logged. Sable is waiting by the station.
local save ready
Specimen tray previews
Catalogue pieces from the device-local specimen tray can appear here as previews. They are not purchases, ownership records, stock confirmations, or game upgrades.
Product map
More useful things to build.
The next tools should begin with a real field, shop, or workshop task—not a generic app format.
Specimen ID
An explainable evidence graph that carries uncertainty forward instead of hiding it.
Equipment Compare
Match machines, abrasives, budgets, and material to the work someone actually wants to do.
Rockhound
Private locations, field tests, permissions, images, and later identification in one record.
Lithos
Minerals crossed with deep time, geography, labor, material culture, and excellent tangents.
Pixel Art Math
Crystal symmetry, coordinates, tiling, and color rules as a visual mathematics tool.