Start Here
If you are new to Cartilage, start with the current pages in this order:
- Cartilage Core: Browser Fabric, RTL, and a 252-Bit Install
- Cartilage Core public source repository
- Cartilage 2026: Child-Owned Reconfiguration Ports
- Cartilage Visual Language
- Cartilage Nested-Instantiation Demo
- Cellular Automata Experiments, 2019-2021
Those pages establish the current implementation boundary, then explain the visual lineage, the role alphabet, the nested-instantiation model, and the older cellular automata roots.
Run And Sketch Pages
These seven pages are useful when you need run material, source artifacts, rendered frames, placement sketches, or the small mux debug fixture.
- Cartilage Verified Ripple2 Adder
- Cartilage Exact-Frame Reconfiguration Run
- Cartilage QuadFlow 6 + 5 Full-Frame Computation
- Cartilage PC Stepper Islands
- Cartilage Full-Adder Islands
- Cartilage QuadFlow 525,568-Cycle Timeline
- Cartilage Mux Lanes Debug Fixture — passing edge-surface checks, but its recorded QFG source path is not published here.
How To Read Them
Cartilage Core is the current compact implementation and hardware reference. It is not the source tree for the older QuadFlow/QFG captures listed below.
Checked runs and sketches do different work. A checked run can state frame counts, source files, visible output lanes, and expectation results. A visual sketch can explain mapping vocabulary, cell roles, and intended routing, but it should not be read as a driven circuit unless the page says so.
That distinction keeps the Cartilage material useful. The pages can show artifact paths and design vocabulary without blurring a sketch into a completed verification run.
Reading Order
Use Cartilage Core for the current mechanism, RTL, and exact installation evidence. Use the 2026 milestone, visual-language decoder, nested-instantiation demo, and cellular-automata roots page for the visual lineage. Use the run and sketch pages when you want the specific older artifact named by the link.