# Concepts

The Intangible-specific abstractions that the rest of the docs assume you know. Read these once and the feature pages get a lot shorter.

## Start here

* [Projects and scenes](/overview/concepts/projects-and-scenes.md): how a project is structured – scenes as locations, shots as time.
* [The three modes](/overview/concepts/the-three-modes.md): Build, Compose, Visualize – what each owns and why they're separated.
* [How the visualizer thinks](/overview/concepts/how-the-visualizer-thinks.md): semantic 3D, the multi-agent system, why prompts get built from the scene.

## Building blocks

* [Populators](/overview/concepts/populators.md): the procedural environment generators – Houdini for normal people.
* [Image reference](/overview/concepts/image-reference.md): how a reference image attached to an object reaches the model.
* [Animation and shot time](/overview/concepts/animation-and-shot-time.md): why animated movement belongs to a shot, not to a scene.

## Cost

* [Credits and tokens](/overview/concepts/credits-and-tokens.md): what every action costs and how to read the counter.


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