Creative intent can become technical instruction.
Shot design, camera geometry, techvis, and lighting previs need different authorities even when they share a frame.
Sales imagery is usually commercial.
Most archviz sells or aligns. It should not silently travel as proof of what will be built.
Photometric authority is the artifact.
Fixture definitions, venue geometry, and cue timing determine whether the plan can drive the rig.
A prototype may enter a regulated record.
Scale, tolerances, versioning, provenance, and design history matter once the image carries a safety or compliance decision.
Visualization can be a research loop.
Test a store, observe behaviour, revise the plan, and say which result came from measurement versus impression.
Hardware changes the delivery context.
Device life, tracking, safety, and interaction constraints are part of the plan. A headset demo is not automatically a reliable simulation.
Cross-cutting test
- Name the highest decision class the artifact will be used for.
- List the authority it actually holds.
- Downgrade the claim when an authority is absent.
- Keep provenance and the disclosure label with the file.
Derived from the supplied taxonomy, organizations, worked examples, and remaining-verticals research. Practitioner rate data remains a stated gap.