# Coral-Suture

A field notebook for a removable mineral settlement tile: millimetre-scale texture for coral larvae, enough refuge for early growth, and a clear retrieval plan for divers.

The design only matters if it beats a flat tile without trapping sediment, spreading harmful biology, or turning into permanent reef debris.

**read the full thing:** [pinterittejeden-gif.github.io/coral-suture](https://pinterittejeden-gif.github.io/coral-suture/)

## Current status

- **Starting point:** surface texture, near-surface flow, settlement cues, and handling methods can affect recruitment.
- **Proposed combination:** put those factors into one tagged, retrievable mineral module.
- **Likely failure:** species, sites, fouling, disease, storms, and timescales refuse to behave consistently.
- **Evidence today:** literature review and tile design only; nothing has been built or put in the water.

## Repository map

- `index.html` has the full idea, design gates, ecological stop conditions, roadmap, and papers.
- the mechanism diagram is drawn in HTML/CSS; `assets/` contains real reference images and [IMAGE_CREDITS.md](IMAGE_CREDITS.md) records where they came from.

If you find a bad assumption, missing paper, or a simpler restoration control I should compare against, open an issue.

the code is MIT licensed; my writing and diagrams are CC BY 4.0. details are in [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md).