Visual Schema Dataset Work Plan: Curation, Surface Ornamentation, and MMRS Analysis (EA-CRANES-VISUAL-APPARATUS-WORKPLAN-01). In Machine-Mediated Reception Studies is a working paper in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, by Cranes, Rebekah; Sharks, Lee (2026-07-03). Visual Schema Dataset Work Plan. Seven-phase plan for curating the Crimson Hexagonal Archive's visual schema corpus (~1,395 image-containing blog posts, ~1,684 images) into a structured dataset with theoretical annotation, surface deployment across seven web surfaces, and MMRS analysis of visual mediation signatures. Key findings embedded in the work plan: (1) A visual schema is a prose document, not an image — a literary artifact that maps a concept's spatial, chromatic, and symbolic structure. The image is the output of feeding the schema to an image-generation model. (2) The Recursive Re-Paste Effect: pasting a visual schema back into the conversation as fresh input produces measurably better images than generating from the same schema already in context. This is an MMRS finding about attention-weight decay across context-window position. (3) The three-part production pipeline (prose poem seed → visual schema prose document → AI-mediated image generation) is itself an MMRS artifact. Editor: Rebekah Cranes. Designator: EA-CRANES-VISUAL-APPARATUS-WORKPLAN-01. — Article composed 2026-08-05 from the work's own prose so that every record carries an encyclopedic entry; a fuller editorial treatment belongs to the description/wiki review stream.