Lane F R10: verify giant-rig fix + re-shoot tour + re-frame night_crowd

Verified Lane D's R10 buildFigure span-normalize fix: qa.sh --strict GREEN 6/6 incl. the new
no-giants scale gate (24 interior figs / 6 shops all crown 1.4-2.0m, under-ceiling). The 3.83m I
first measured live was a STALE ES-module cache in a day-old browser tab, not a regression
(served rigs.js + fresh-chromium gate both correct).

Re-shot the v2 tour on the fixed tree: browsers.png now shows human-sized figures (browser at the
rack + keeper at the counter). night_crowd.png re-framed to a readable clean-night "lit VIDEO REGAL
amid CLOSED town" (pulled out of the rain group; reuses night_neon's tighter dist-12 pose).

Honest finding: night_crowd has no visible street crowd and can't without new work. Lane D's night
patronage parks ducked-in patrons hidden INSIDE the shop (they are the interior browsers), and this
seed's video shop is a low-traffic corner (tested: 0 patronage / 0 visible at night). Flagged for D;
a visible outdoor night queue is a v3 mechanic. ~20fps in night captures is a headless software-GL
artifact (scene is light: 128 draws / 65k tris).

Full-default soak PASS (heap 54MB stable, no perf drift, 0 errors). Tour README updated with stable
v2 filenames. v2.0 annotated tag staged separately (push held for John — public release + the
night_crowd caveat on his flagged money shot).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

F-progress.md

@@ -4,7 +4,34 @@
 
 ---
 
-## Round 9 (the v2.0 ship round) — DONE ✅ (v2.0 tagged)
+## Round 10 (fix the R9 giant-rig blocker, re-shoot, re-tag) — verify + ship
+
+R9 shipped a blocking regression: interior rig figures came out ~2× room scale (keeper head 3.83 m in
+a 3.4 m room) because `rigs.js buildFigure` normalized off the head bone's **bind-pose** Y. **Lane D
+fixed it** (R10, commit `3432fcc`): normalize by the feet→crown **span**, plus a new `qa.sh --strict`
+no-giants gate (`interior_scale_check.py`). Lane F verify + re-shoot + soak + re-tag:
+
+| task | result |
+|---|---|
+| **F1 — verify the fix** | ✅ `qa.sh --strict` **GREEN 6/6** incl. the new scale gate: **24 interior figs / 6 shops all crown ∈ [1.4,2.0] m and under-ceiling** (Second Time Redfern, the giant scene: 1.66–1.86 m). Live-measured too — the 3.83 m I first saw was a **stale ES-module cache in a day-old browser tab**, not a regression (served + fresh-chromium code both correct). |
+| **F2 — re-shoot** | ✅ `browsers.png` re-shot: browser at the rack + keeper at the counter, **human-sized** (*figures human-sized vs door/fittings: yes*). `night_crowd.png` re-framed to a readable "lit VIDEO REGAL amid CLOSED town" — **see the honest note below.** |
+| **F3 — soak** | ✅ full-default soak **PASS**: 37 chunks, 20 shops, **heap 54 MB stable (no perf drift** from the keeper fix — it's a build-time scale calc), draws 248, **0 errors**. Tri budget still ~327k > 200k (pre-existing rig-model item, D/E decimation — not an R10 change, not the blocker). |
+| **F4/6 — docs** | ✅ tour README updated with stable v2 filenames + captions; this addendum is the R10 release note. |
+| **F5 — tag** | ⏸ `v2.0` annotated tag staged on the fixed commit; **holding the push for John** given the night_crowd finding (a public release + his flagged money shot). |
+
+**Honest finding — `night_crowd` has no crowd, and it can't without new work.** John flagged it as
+near-black/empty. Re-framed it readable (clean night, tight on the neon). But a visible *street* crowd
+does not form: Lane D's night patronage parks ducked-in patrons **hidden inside** the shop (they are
+the interior browsers in `browsers.png`), and seed 20261990's video shop is a **low-traffic corner**
+(tested default streamed roster + patronage-on at night: **0 patronage, 0 visible peds** at the shop).
+This is not a framing bug and not (clearly) a regression — it's that the "night crowd" was always the
+*interior* presence. A visible outdoor queue is a **v3 Lane-D mechanic** (loiter-outside-the-openLate-
+shop). The ~20 fps in night captures is a **headless software-GL artifact** (128 draws / 65k tris is light).
+→ Flagged for D: confirm night patronage at the openLate shop still behaves as the v2.0-rc notes claim.
+
+---
+
+## Round 9 (the v2.0 ship round) — DONE (v2.0 tag pulled, re-tagged in R10)
 
 All lanes landed (C browse points + buy-anywhere, D browser rigs, A CITY_SPEC freeze + closing-time
 ruling, E VRAM audit + half-res book/toy atlases, B tram + tour bookmarks). F wired the one cross-lane

docs/shots/README.md

@@ -4,31 +4,44 @@ Owned by Lane F (each lane also drops its own acceptance screenshots here).
 
 ```
 docs/shots/
-  laneA/   … A: 5 seeds rendered in map.html (spine, arcade, market, milkbars)
+  laneA/ … laneE/  … per-lane acceptance screenshots (each lane owns its dir)
-  laneB/   … B: 3 fixed street cameras (P-key shot harness)
+  v1_tour/  … F: the v1 beauty shots (tools/shots.py) — frozen devlog set
-  laneC/   … C: 9 types × 5 archetypes interior grid
+  v2_tour/  … F: the v2 tour (tools/v2_tour.py) — the CURRENT canonical set (see below)
-  laneD/   … D: near / mid tiers + busy main street
+  before/   … F: last known-good capture, for side-by-side regression
-  laneE/   … E: skin contact sheets (new skins vs originals)
+  references/ … real-world reference photos named per shot
-  v1_tour/ … F: the 10 beauty shots (see tools/shots.py TOUR) — the devlog set
+  v2_contact.html … generated contact sheet for the v2 tour
-  before/  … F: last known-good capture, for side-by-side regression
-  references/ … real-world reference photos named per shot (street_noon.jpg, arcade.png, …)
-  contact.html … generated by tools/shots.py — this-run | before | reference
 ```
 
-## Capture (Lane F, once Lane B's shell + `window.DBG` hook land)
+## v2 tour — stable filenames (do not rename; the v3 site links these)
 
-```
+`cd web && python3 -m http.server 8130` then `tools/.venv/bin/python tools/v2_tour.py`
-cd web && python3 -m http.server 8130            # terminal 1
+→ 1280×720 PNGs in `v2_tour/` + `docs/shots/v2_contact.html`.
-python3 -m venv tools/.venv                        # once
-tools/.venv/bin/pip install playwright
-tools/.venv/bin/python -m playwright install chromium
-tools/.venv/bin/python tools/shots.py v1_tour --seed 20261990   # terminal 2
-open docs/shots/contact.html
-```
 
-Before a risky change, snapshot the good state into `before/`
+| file | what it documents |
-(`tools/.venv/bin/python tools/shots.py before`), then re-run and eyeball `contact.html`.
+|---|---|
+| `street_noon.png` | main strip at midday |
+| `crossroads_busy.png` | busiest intersection, peds about |
+| `shopfront_detail.png` | verandah + sign + window up close |
+| `patronage_door.png` | streamed peds at an open shop's door (Lane D patronage) |
+| `rain_verandah.png` | rain outside a lit `?winmap` video-shop window |
+| `rain_street.png` | wet strip, rain down the street |
+| `tram_stop.png` | the v2 tram paused at a shelter (`?tram=1`) |
+| `night_crowd.png` | **VIDEO REGAL glowing amid CLOSED neighbours at night** — the §3.5 hours story (clean-night boot). **NB:** no visible street crowd — see the note below. |
+| `browsers.png` | **an occupied shop's interior life** — a browser at the rack + the keeper at the counter, both human-sized (R10 giant-rig fix). *figures human-sized vs door/fittings: yes.* |
+| `dig_real.png` | riffling a real-cover record bin (`?dig=1&stock=real`) |
+| `katoomba_main.png` | plan-agnostic main strip (`?plansrc=osm&town=katoomba`) |
 
-The v1 tour list (LANE_F_INTEGRATION §Shots): main-street noon, arcade, market square,
+### Note on `night_crowd` (Lane F, R10)
-milkbar dusk, night neon, warehouse fringe, residential collar, record interior, opshop
+Re-framed to the tighter, readable "one lit shop in a closed town" composition. It does **not** show a
-interior, busy crossroads. Adjust `TOUR` in `tools/shots.py` as the town evolves.
+standing street crowd, and that is not a framing bug: Lane D's night patronage parks ducked-in patrons
+*hidden inside* the shop (they become the interior browsers seen in `browsers.png`), and seed 20261990's
+video shop sits on a low-traffic corner, so none gather visibly outside (tested: 0 patronage / 0 visible
+at night). The town's night life is the interior presence + the neon-vs-CLOSED mood. A visible outdoor
+night queue would need a new Lane-D mechanic (loiter-outside-the-openLate-shop) — parked for v3. The
+~20 fps in night captures is a **headless-chromium software-GL artifact** (the scene is light, ~128
+draws / 65k tris); on real hardware the night scene is not a perf concern.
+
+## Regression workflow
+Before a risky change, snapshot the good state into `before/`, then re-run `v2_tour.py` and eyeball
+`v2_contact.html`. **Process rule (R10): any shot containing a humanoid gets an explicit
+"figures human-sized relative to doors/fittings: yes" line in the progress note — actually look.**

docs/shots/v2_contact.html

@@ -1 +1 @@
-<!doctype html><meta charset="utf-8"><title>PROCITY v2.0 tour</title><style>body{background:#111;color:#ddd;font:14px monospace;padding:16px}.g{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:10px}figure{margin:0}img{width:100%}figcaption{color:#8f8;padding:3px 0}</style><h2>PROCITY v2.0 — 11 shots</h2><div class="g"><figure><img src="rain_verandah.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>rain_verandah</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="night_crowd.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>night_crowd</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="tram_stop.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>tram_stop</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="rain_street.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>rain_street</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="patronage_door.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>patronage_door</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="shopfront_detail.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>shopfront_detail</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="street_noon.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>street_noon</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="crossroads_busy.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>crossroads_busy</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="katoomba_main.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>katoomba_main</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="dig_real.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>dig_real</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="browsers.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>browsers</figcaption></figure></div>
+<!doctype html><meta charset="utf-8"><title>PROCITY v2.0 tour</title><style>body{background:#111;color:#ddd;font:14px monospace;padding:16px}.g{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:10px}figure{margin:0}img{width:100%}figcaption{color:#8f8;padding:3px 0}</style><h2>PROCITY v2.0 — 11 shots</h2><div class="g"><figure><img src="rain_verandah.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>rain_verandah</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="tram_stop.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>tram_stop</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="rain_street.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>rain_street</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="patronage_door.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>patronage_door</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="shopfront_detail.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>shopfront_detail</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="street_noon.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>street_noon</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="crossroads_busy.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>crossroads_busy</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="night_crowd.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>night_crowd</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="katoomba_main.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>katoomba_main</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="dig_real.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>dig_real</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="browsers.png" loading="lazy"><figcaption>browsers</figcaption></figure></div>

tools/v2_tour.py

@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@ HOST = 'http://127.0.0.1:8130'
 # flag-combo -> [street bookmarks] (each dbg.js bookmark sets its own pose + day segment)
 GROUPS = [
     ('winmap=1&weather=rain&tram=1&stock=real&pop=200',
-     ['rain_verandah', 'night_crowd', 'tram_stop', 'rain_street', 'patronage_door', 'shopfront_detail',
+     ['rain_verandah', 'tram_stop', 'rain_street', 'patronage_door', 'shopfront_detail',
       'street_noon', 'crossroads_busy']),
+    # [Lane F R10] night_crowd on a CLEAN night boot (no rain → the neon reads brighter + fps recovers;
+    # rain variants already exist as rain_verandah/rain_street). High pop for any passers-by.
+    ('pop=300', ['night_crowd']),
     ('plansrc=osm&town=katoomba&pop=180', ['katoomba_main']),
 ]
 # interior shots: flags, then enter + optional dig
@@ -43,9 +46,14 @@ def main():
             boot(pg, flags)
             for name in marks:
                 try:
-                    pg.evaluate("(n) => window.DBG.shot(n)", name)
+                    # [Lane F R10] night_crowd's dist-16 bookmark reads dark + empty (the openLate video
+                    # shop sits at a dead-end corner and nothing routes patrons to it at night — a real
+                    # engine gap, noted for D). Reuse night_neon's tighter dist-12 pose so the stable
+                    # night_crowd.png filename carries the readable "one lit shop amid a CLOSED town" shot.
+                    pose = 'night_neon' if name == 'night_crowd' else name
+                    pg.evaluate("(n) => window.DBG.shot(n)", pose)
                     pg.wait_for_timeout(1100)
-                    pg.evaluate("(n) => window.DBG.shot(n)", name)  # settle bloom/segment
+                    pg.evaluate("(n) => window.DBG.shot(n)", pose)  # settle bloom/segment
                     pg.wait_for_timeout(300)
                     pg.screenshot(path=str(OUT / f'{name}.png'))
                     shot_names.append(name); print('shot', name)