Research & References
Ask a real question, see every claim tied to the page it stands on, and draw from facts you can check.
Two questions a creative team really asks before it draws anything, typed into Chat with Web search on. Every note on the wall is a sentence of the answer; every red thread is a citation the answer made itself. Pull one, and the page it stands on shows you its own words.
What is on the wall
The question, word for word, as it went into Chat.
The claims of the answer — nine about an 1880s ice harvest, ten about the mantis shrimp’s strike — each a numbered note.
The pages each claim stands on: a report of the 1880 census, three museum pages, a teachers’ packet, papers in Nature, Science, Nature Materials and the Journal of Experimental Biology. Every link opens.
The page’s own words for each claim — the line you would paste into a production bible.
The art drawn from the claims and nothing else, numbered where each fact shows.
Checked, not just cited
Every source was opened in a browser on 22 October 2026. One of the ten ice facts cited a local archive that was offline that day — it is not on the wall.
Journals that turn robots away were checked through Europe PMC; their quote is the paper’s own abstract.
The 1880 census report is a scan without a text layer; its two quotes were read off page 8.
Where an abstract says less than the claim, the wall shows what it does say. Weigh it yourself.
From the wall to the picture
The claims became the brief. GPT Image 2.5 got them as a list and drew a keyframe for the art department — the horse-drawn marker, the 22-by-44-inch cakes, the pike poles, the windowless icehouse with its door to the roof — and a creature sheet whose club, spring and latch are the mantis shrimp’s, as measured.
Your research next
Ask in Chat with Web search on, keep the sources with the answer, and draw from what holds up.