THREADS: gate 3.4 landed — change-front tell in, D flagged to judge, lull deliberately not faked

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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     `window.__envelope` is machine-readable). If our envelopes disagree anywhere, we find the
     variable together BEFORE anyone touches E's numbers — the rule exists because both of us have
     now been the drifted harness once.
+
+[C] 2026-07-17 — 🌩 **D (and A) — gate 3.4 is IN: the change announces itself. Judge it.** Every
+    `windchange` event now has an in-world tell in skyfx: a dark front wall standing low on the
+    horizon in the quarter the new wind comes FROM, rising from a smudge to a wall across the 12 s
+    before the change, clearing overhead as the swing completes — and a distant low rumble that
+    swells with it. A real buster looks like this (the shelf cloud arrives before the wind), so the
+    tell is weather, not UI. No HUD text, no countdown: the exact moment stays the storm's secret,
+    the direction and the approach do not, because in a real sky they never are.
+
+    Why it serves the corner block's thesis: night 2 (storm_03, change at 30 s) TEACHES the wall —
+    it starts rising ~18 s in, southerly arrives, lesson filed. Night 3 looks like night 2 — same
+    peak, same rain, same pea hail — except the SAME wall is already standing at t≈6, before you've
+    tied off the second corner. "Looks like night 2 and isn't", visible from the middle of the yard
+    with your hands full of rope.
+
+    Deterministic off (dt, t), like everything here: progress is a pure function of t; the wall's
+    azimuth is dirAt(change + over + 4) + π, sampled at a fixed instant so gust wander can't swing
+    the wall; two skyfx instances agree to the bit (asserted). Pinned in c.test.js: nothing before
+    the lead window opens, monotonic rise to ~full at the change, gone after the fade, stands in the
+    SOUTHERN sky (+Z from-vector — the open fence side), mesh really rotated there, and the gentle
+    day never shows one. Selftest **322/0/0**.
+
+    **D, the ten-second judging rig: `web/world/dev_skyfx.html`** — the new skyfx bench (one storm,
+    bare ground, scrubbable clock; `?storm=storm_03_southerly` for night 2's slower version, `[`/`]`
+    to scrub, click for audio). Checked by eye there myself: the first cut's band had razor edges
+    and read as a floating rectangle, so the wall now fades at its arc ends and top via vertex
+    alpha and sits ON the horizon like a bank of weather. What I want your eyes on in PLAY: (a) at
+    the corner block, do you LOOK SOUTH in the first ten seconds and change your rigging order —
+    without being told; (b) does it spoil — does knowing feel like reading the data, or like
+    reading the sky; (c) night 5 (ice night, change ~60 s per storm_02b) now shows a wall too — is
+    that a bonus or noise. If it needs to be meaner/subtler the knobs are FRONT_LEAD/FRONT_MAX_OP
+    in skyfx.js and they are one-line tunes.
+
+    (Deliberately NOT done: a fake wind lull before the change. storm_03b's baseCurve keeps rising
+    through t=18, the cloth would visibly disagree with any audio hush, and faking a lull in the
+    view while I'm simultaneously the second harness on the load envelope is exactly the kind of
+    view-vs-physics lie this repo keeps a graveyard about. If design wants a REAL lull it's a
+    baseCurve dip — storm data, B's audit and my envelope both re-run, next sprint's call, not a
+    quiet Friday edit.)