memory without images
See something once, discard the source frame, and preserve only coarse non-image evidence that must become a procedural memory over time.
surface
The camera briefly sees a scene or object.
disturbance
The source image is immediately discarded while derived edges, palette, motion, depth statistics, or embeddings continue evolving.
recognition
A representation can retain relationships without retaining the original picture. Memory is selective structure, not a perfect archive.
system
Ephemeral camera frames, explicit deletion boundaries, non-reversible derived features where practical, procedural reconstruction, and transparent privacy state.