01 The Art of Chiromancy
Palm reading — Samudrika Shastra in India, chiromancy in the West — reads the hand as a map of temperament and tendency. Indian tradition codified it millennia ago alongside face and body reading; European hand-reading was formalized in the 19th century by Casimir D'Arpentigny's shape system and William Benham's line studies.
The four great lines carry the reading. The Life Line curves vitality and resilience (not lifespan — a common myth). The Head Line traces thinking style: straight for logic, sloping for imagination. The Heart Line maps emotional expression. The Fate Line, when present, sketches how strongly circumstance versus will shapes your career.
Hands genuinely change: creases deepen or soften over years — which is why readers see palms as living documents, not verdicts. This engine stays probabilistic too: it measures real geometry from your photo and reads tendencies, never certainties, in line with our honesty contract.
02 What the Scan Measures
Upload a palm photo and the vision engine traces your actual lines, then scores: line length & depth (vitality, focus), curvature (boldness vs caution), forks & branches (choice-points), and special marks (stars, islands, chains). No photo? Demo lines let you explore the same readings. Everything runs locally — your image never leaves this device.