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m3ultra
4c2702fc58 Lane B R27 w4: poseForShopFront — and the real towns face the wrong way
The micro-task, done and verified. In doing it I found why F photographed
empty road: it is not the pose.

1. THE DELIVERABLE — DBG.poseForShopFront(sel, dist = 8)
Poses at a NAMED shop's frontage: door centred, sign band + R26 crate mark in
shot, under the verandah. clusterPose() answers "where is the town's HEART",
which is the wrong question for a named shop — Red Hill's heart doesn't contain
Monster Robot, which is exactly how F got three frames of empty road.

Keyed through ONE shop selector: F's R22/R24 resolver lived inside enterShop(),
so I extracted it rather than grow a second key scheme beside it. A selector bug
resolves the wrong shop AND looks like it worked (F's own first cut proved it),
so the id-namespace law now has exactly one home.
  poseForShopFront(31)         → Wholefood Cafe (PLAN id) + ambiguous: "31 is
                                 also the godverseShopId of Silky Oak Furnature"
  poseForShopFront('g:31')     → Silky Oak Furnature (the prefix IS the fence)
  poseForShopFront('g:999999') → {error} — never throws, never guesses
Framing proven by projection, not by eye: doorCentreNdcX = 0.0000 exactly, door
+ sign + mark inside the frustum. Derived from buildings.js, not hardcoded: door
is centred on the lot front (off = 0, unlike poseForShop's off = 1.0); sign band
= min(h,FACADE_H)-0.35 ± 0.25 ⇒ y 2.40-2.90; mark = y 2.45-2.52; camY 2.0 sits
below AWNING_Y 2.95, so a ray rising to a target ≤2.9 can never cross it — the
sign is clear BY GEOMETRY at any distance.

2. CORRECTING MY OWN R27 INTEL — I gave F two wrong numbers. I said the mark
"rides high (y≈3.3)" and the vinyl blocks 4% of it. Both wrong: the mark is at
y 2.45-2.52, and I had scanned y 3.0-3.6 — empty awning air above the sign,
which is why it read ~0. Re-measured: the novelty_record disc (top y 2.50)
reaches INTO the mark band and clips ~15% of the strip from EVERY offset;
moving the camera only changes which 15%. "Shoot head-on" survives, but for the
opposite reason to the one I gave.

3. THE FINDING — every real town's shops face away from their street, since R18.
From Musgrave Road (Monster Robot's own frontEdge 1316) the shop is a blank grey
back wall: no sign, no door, no mark. Measured:
  redhill_godverse  35 shop lots: 0 facing, 35 backwards (dot = -1.000)
  katoomba_real     72 shop lots: 0 facing, 72 backwards (dot = -1.000)
  synthetic         correct — always has been
dot = -1.000 exactly on every lot in both towns: a convention, not a defect.
Katoomba's street_noon — the bookmark the tours have shot for nine rounds — is
46 draws / 19,680 tris of bare road.

Root cause: CITY_SPEC contradicts itself and each generator implements one half.
  CITY_SPEC:71  (lots contract) "World facing = (-sin ry, -cos ry)"  ⇒ -Z facade
  CITY_SPEC:335 (posters, R15)  "the +Z street facade (B's canon)"   ⇒ +Z facade
plan_osm.js:443 obeys the first (its comment: "facade (-Z) faces road").
plan.js, buildings.js, venue.js and the R15 posters obey the second. Synthetic —
the town every golden tests — follows B's canon and looks right, which is exactly
why nine rounds of real-town work never caught it. The epoch's own signature
species: a rule meeting a case written after it.

Proven, then REVERTED: one line in A's plan_osm.js (ry = atan2(-nx,-nz)) flips
katoomba 0/72 → 72/72 facing, and turns poseForShopFront's camera from 26m out in
a paddock into 4m from Musgrave Road — the money shot F specified. Not committed:
it is A's file, it moves every real-town plan (goldens re-pin under amendment
law), and a self-contradicting spec is Fable's to rule on, not mine to pick a
side of.

This also re-reads my R22 diagnosis: I recorded "chunk-buildings 348 tris (0.2%)"
in katoomba's busiest block and credited the instancing work. 348 tris is ~29
boxes — that was not efficiency, it was the buildings being ABSENT from frame. I
read the evidence as a win for five rounds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 15:42:50 +10:00
m3ultra
01f398960b Lane B R27 (on-call): the R26 handshake verified against G's real manifest
R27 owes B nothing ("B/D: notes current; nothing else owed"; "B/D on-call").
This is on-call work on F's #5: the tour is specified as "Monster Robot Party's
frontage (B's mark visible)" — a claim R26 could not test, because G's manifest
did not exist and B proved the treatment against a temp manifest it scaffolded
and deleted. G shipped the real one (36d10ca). Now measured, not assumed.

Monster Robot Party is in redhill_godverse — NOT newtown_godverse, the only
town B ever tested the mark in. F's money shot is posed in a town this
treatment had never been verified against. It works.

The handshake held unmodified: G's {version, shops:[{godverseShopId, types,
sourcing}]} lands inside B's tolerant reader with zero coordination. The
tier→sourcing rename did not touch B — the mark never reads that field, so a
rename of it cannot break the footpath. A cue that reads no field cannot break
when the field moves.

Both arms proven live, the discriminating arm for the first time (R26's temp
manifest marked all 18 keyed shops, so "the manifest is the authority, not the
key" was never exercised). Redhill: 9 keyed, only 4 stocked.
  Monster Robot Party #3962749 (real)  keyed + in manifest → MARKED
  Silky Oak Furnature #31              keyed, not in manifest → BARE
  Thrift Shop and Eternity Boutique    keyed, not in manifest → BARE
Two keyed shops stand metres from a stocked one wearing no mark, because they
have no crate. The street advertises exactly the crates that exist. (#31 is
Fable's R25 id-namespace shop; the mark reads godverseShopId only, unaffected.)
Frontage 135 draws / 74,354 tris, 0 page errors, manifest prefetched at boot.

Intel for F's #5, no action owed: the novelty_record landmark (B's furniture —
a giant vinyl disc marking record shops) stands 2.5m off the frontage and is
prominent head-on. Ray-grid occlusion so F can frame without guessing:
  mark+sign   head-on 4% blocked   off-axis +4m 0%
  window      head-on 22% blocked  off-axis +4m 44%
Shoot HEAD-ON: the vinyl sits low (y~1.3), the mark rides high (y~3.3), and
stepping off-axis doubles window occlusion instead of helping. I first read the
black disc as a render bug — it isn't, it's the landmark working; recorded so
the next reader doesn't re-open it.

Notes-only; no code changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 13:52:57 +10:00
m3ultra
2f4ab5912f Lane B R26 (v5.0-beta): the stocked shopfront reads from the footpath
Ledger #5 — B's polish pick. A stocked godverse shop now tells you it's
diggable before you reach the door: a crate of seeded spines under the shop
name, and a warm-lamp-over-crates room behind the glass.

Cost: +0 draws / +0 tris. The mark is painted into the chunk's EXISTING
sign-atlas cell; the window cue rides the EXISTING per-shop aTint attribute.
Nothing new is allocated or submitted.

The manifest is the authority, deliberately NOT the godverseShopId key: keyed
means "has a stock identity", the manifest means "a crate is actually here".
Marking keyed-but-unstocked shops would advertise a crate the shop hasn't got
— the street would lie. The mark does not leak tier: "you can dig here" is
equally true of real and mint; provenance belongs on C's price card and in E's
gates. (Second job for ledger #6's manifest, free.)

Measured — true A/B at one pose, manifest 200 vs 404:
  spine-marked sign cells   0 → 3 (18,768 exact-palette px)
  stocked window tint verts 0 → 36
  street_noon               65 draws / 115,502 tris → UNCHANGED
Stocked shopfront (Goulds Books, footpath): 85 draws / 144,730 tris — inside
street law (<=300 / <=200k). Cues agree with ground truth: 3 stocked shops
live → 3 marked cells, 9 stocked window quads.

Covenants re-proved (the prefetch is new code on the boot path), tested with
the manifest present on disk so a stray fetch would 200 and be unmissable:
  ?classic=1        0 keyed, 0 stock fetches, 0 errors  (zero-fetch covenant)
  default synthetic 0 keyed, 0 stock fetches, 0 errors
  manifest 404      18 keyed, fail-soft, 0 page errors

Three traps, self-caught: (1) a module-load fetch would have put a fetch delta
on ?classic=1 — restructured to a lazy reader + plan-driven prefetch, keyed
plans only; (2) the lazy trigger alone raced the first chunk build, so the
first stocked shop you approach built unmarked — prefetch moved to
createChunkManager, before any chunk builds; (3) the first "zero cost" was
VACUOUS (manifest never fetched, so nothing was applied) and the first pixel
detector reported 60 marked cells with no treatment at all — replaced with an
exact-palette signature that reads 0 in control. Vacuous-gate law applies to a
lane's own verification too. Corollary: force-cache serves a deleted file
(transferSize 0, status 200 while disk 404s) — poison the cache or you are
testing your own memory.

B consumes stock_godverse/index.json read-only and emits nothing into it; the
temp manifest used to prove this round was deleted — the directory is G's.
Shape-tolerant + fail-soft, so G's real emission needs no coordination with B.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 09:49:54 +10:00
m3ultra
af8a6db020 Lane B round 22 (v4.0): #3 per-town bookmarks — anchor on the retail heart (Lane G's filed bug) + F's primitive
ROOT CAUSE: every "nearest" resolver in dbg.js sorted by distance from the WORLD ORIGIN. That's the town
centre only on a synthetic plan -- a real OSM town is projected about its cache's bbox centre while its shops
cluster hundreds of metres away, so bookmarks teleported into arbitrary far-flung geometry, exactly as G
reported. Measured origin-pick distance from the retail heart: katoomba 408m, newtown 626m, fremantle 371m.

FIX: resolve bookmarks about the town's DENSEST SHOP CLUSTER (grid-bin shop lots at 120m; heaviest bin's
centroid = the retail heart) instead of the origin -- byDist, lotsByDist, streetViewPose, stopPose, and
crossroadsPose's tie-break.

GATED on the REAL-ROADS signal (edges > 200) -- the same primitive as the R20 tram fence -- so synthetic and
the marched fixtures keep their exact origin-centred behaviour and F's release-tour control shot cannot move.
The gate is load-bearing, not cosmetic: synthetic's anchor is only 117m out but it DOES re-pick (Anglibarn Op
Shop -> Dusty Pages), so an unconditional switch would have silently moved the control. Same reason the new
crossroadsPose tie-break is gated (a degree tie would otherwise resolve differently on synthetic).

Verified across the town set: synthetic(22 edges)/melbourne(15)/katoomba-fixture(15)/silverton(1) -> origin,
UNCHANGED; newtown_godverse(1626) -> anchor(98,-629); katoomba_real(993) -> anchor(-227,-625). G's own town
is fixed.

Result on katoomba: shopfront bookmarks went from ~408m adrift to <=42m of the retail heart (arcade 7m,
milkbar_dusk/patronage_door/shopfront_detail 24m, market_square 26m, dig_real 42m); strip views ~195m on the
high street; venue_night/queue_night ~345m (A's venue placement, not the bookmark). All 19 resolve, 0 errors;
synthetic 19/19 unchanged. warehouse_fringe sits 3,074m out -- correct by design (it's the far:true fringe
shot; on a 5km town the fringe genuinely is 3km away).

-> F (ledger #4, the shared posing primitive): published on the harness as DBG.townAnchor {x,z,n,anchored,ref}
   (the retail heart + whether it's in use) and DBG.clusterPose(kinds) (stand on the road at the densest
   cluster, look along it). Your cluster-pose finding as a dbg.js-consumable -- the tour and the bookmarks now
   resolve through the SAME primitive, so a tour shot and its bookmark can't drift apart.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 22:01:41 +10:00
m3ultra
0c4dad5acc Lane B round 22 (v4.0): #1a venue_night tri diagnosis — the driver is E's four furniture GLBs (91.5%)
BLOCKING-ITEM DIAGNOSIS, filed first so E/A/F aren't waiting. Method: katoomba venue_night, settled, then
hide-a-layer-and-re-measure (frustum-accurate: a layer's cost = the tris that vanish when hidden), then the
same drill inside furniture bucketed by geometry.

VERDICT: the four GLB street-furniture props are 149,161 of 163,015 tris = 91.5% of the stress view.
OWNER: LANE E (asset tris), per the ledger's own rule. Decimation clears the gate with ~120k to spare.

Layer breakdown (baseline 163,015 tris / 88 draws):
  chunk-furniture 151,341 (92.8%) | ground 9,932 | venue-presentation 770 | lighting 624 |
  chunk-buildings 348 (0.2%) | venue-posters 222 | citizens/weather/tram/venue-pools 0

Buildings are 348 tris (the R3 atlas/instancing holds). Posters are 222 -- A's cap already worked and was
never the lever. Pools cost 0.

Inside furniture -- the four GLBs are the whole bill:
  bench 1,942 tris/inst x64 = 60,202 (37%)      <- procity_street_bench_01
  bus_shelter 7,998 x10     = 55,986 (34%)      <- procity_street_bus_shelter_01
  bin 3,000 x19             = 18,000 (11%)      <- procity_street_bin_01
  food_cart 4,991 x8        = 14,973 (9%)       <- procity_street_food_cart_01
  pole/lamp/trees/novelty (primitives) x303 = 2,180 (1.3%)
Identity confirmed by DCC-authored material names (wire_143225087 = a Sketchfab scan, baked_mat,
"2 wood frame ", Material_0) -- E's GLBs, not our procedural materials. Two use MeshPhysicalMaterial.

WHY NOW (and why it is NOT the density widening): shop count doesn't drive this -- ROAD density does. Real
towns put the bench/bin/shelter cadence on a 966-edge graph, so ~100 GLB props land in the streamed set
where synthetic had a handful. A 1.2m bench at 1,942 tris is ~5x the entire building stock in frame. This is
B's own R6 note coming due ("street_bin 3.0k tris... a decimate to ~500 would give back tri headroom if the
combined-lane budget tightens").

-> E, suggested targets: bench 1942->~250, bus_shelter 7998->~600, bin 3000->~200, food_cart 4991->~400.
   149,161 -> ~29,000 (saves ~120k). Projected: my 163k -> ~43k; F's 221,935 -> ~102k. Both far under 200k.
   Cheap extra: drop the two MeshPhysicalMaterials to MeshStandardMaterial.
-> Fable: a B-side fallback exists (furniture.js already has a primitive fallback for every GLB prop via the
   R4 use-if-ready path), so a distance-gated LOD is a contained B change I can land fast. NOT doing it
   unilaterally -- per the ledger this is E's, and source decimation helps every town/view, not just this one.
-> F: my baseline is 163,015 vs your 221,935 on the same view -- my automation's rAF is throttled so the live
   gig crowd never spawns (citizens measured 0). Furniture is still ~68% of your number; decimation clears the
   gate on either baseline. Re-measure against the live crowd, not my figure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 21:52:43 +10:00
m3ultra
4b0144989b Lane B round 21 (v4.0-beta): town selector reads E's towns index (ledger #2, the missed R20 #5)
Closes the gap Fable caught (hud.js:11 still hardcoded REAL_TOWNS). The real-town list now comes from E's
web/assets/towns/index.json (procity-towns-index/1), so it grows with the town pack instead of being edited
in hud.js. Verified fresh Chromium. Nothing else touched -- tram/ground work is done and verified.

Fail-soft by construction: createHUD is synchronous, so the picker is built immediately from the fallback
literal and UPGRADED IN PLACE when the index resolves -- if the index never arrives, a working list is
already on screen.
- index present -> real names/states/shop counts: "Katoomba, NSW · 80 shops", "Fremantle, WA · 80 shops",
  "Newtown, NSW · 72 shops", "Bendigo, VIC · 36 shops", "Castlemaine, VIC · 24 shops" (roads:false -> "· marched").
- ?noassets -> the fetch is SKIPPED entirely (asset law; the shell doesn't load town caches there either).
  Measured: 0 index fetches, fallback list, 0 errors.
- anything wrong with the index -> the fallback simply stands. Exercised the exact chain: 404, network error,
  malformed JSON, towns:[], towns-not-an-array, junk entries (no key) -> none throws, none rebuilds from junk;
  only a good index rebuilds.

REAL_TOWNS_FALLBACK is retained ONLY as that fallback (comment says so), no longer the source of truth.
Verified live: booting katoomba_real shows "Katoomba, NSW · 80 shops" pre-selected; fits (193px of 230px max);
0 page errors; navigation unchanged (onchange is set once on the <select>, so rebuilding options never clears it).

-> F: unchanged from R19 -- NO shell seam (selector is entirely hud.js, already built by createHUD) and it
   lives inside #pc-hud so setVisible(false) hides it for the beta money shot. The gating call is still yours.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 20:35:47 +10:00
m3ultra
94e56ed5fa Lane B round 20 (v4.0-beta): the tram ruling — route by shop adjacency + per-town fence (ledger #3/#4)
Verified fresh Chromium across 9 town configs (synthetic, 3 fixtures, 5 real).

TRAM RULING (ledger #3): spinePolyline now walks from each main-subgraph dead-end, greedily taking the
unused main edge fronting the most shops (lot.frontEdge), keeping the best-scoring path (ties -> longer).
SYNTHETIC + FIXTURES BYTE-IDENTICAL by construction AND measurement (a synthetic main node has <=2 mains so
there's never a choice; its two dead-ends tie exactly and strict > keeps the pre-R20 start). Old vs new
logic on the same plan = identical polylines (Boolarra: 7 pts, 6 edges, 810m, 172 shops, 2 stops).

The alpha tram fronted 0 shops on 4 of 5 real towns (it was a highway bus). New: katoomba 0->3, newtown
0->8, fremantle 0->2, bendigo 0->1, castlemaine 1->6. Where the best main chain still fronts <5 shops the
tram is FENCED per-town (Fable's fallback). RUNS: synthetic, all fixtures, newtown (8 shops/1924m/16 stops),
castlemaine (6/2184m/10 stops). FENCED: katoomba (3), fremantle (2), bendigo (1) -- highway, not high street.
The fence keys off the REAL-ROADS signal (edges>200), NEVER shop count alone: the marched fixtures front 0
shops on their mains (bare spine, avenues carry shops) so a naive fence would have killed their v2 tram.
routeInfo{fenced,reason,shopsFronted,routeMetres} exposed for F's smoke.

BUG FOUND+FIXED: the stop projection accepted every shelter in the town with no distance gate -- harmless on
synthetic (2 shelters on the spine), nonsense on real graphs: Newtown made 149 phantom stops (~9 min of dwell
at points the tram never passes). Added a 30m gate (a shelter sits halfRoad+1.7 <=~16m off its centreline, so
genuine stops survive): newtown 149->16, castlemaine 37->10; synthetic 2 / fixtures 3 unchanged.

GROUND POLISH (ledger #4): measured, NO fix needed. Real Katoomba has 325 deg-3+ junctions, 28 under 30 deg,
worst 4.3 deg (near-parallel). At grazing eye level the worst reads clean -- no z-fight, no gaps. Layers are
already y-separated (road 0.0/foot 0.02/kerb 0.06) and road-on-road overlap is invisible by design (OVERLAP=1.5
overruns nodes on purpose; one skin, one y, one merged draw on uniform asphalt). Cosmetic only: footpath/kerb
double up on the sliver between <10deg near-parallel roads -- v4.0 candidate, not a defect.

Selector polish (ledger #5): BLOCKED -- E's towns/index.json not landed (build_towns.py WIP); REAL_TOWNS
hardcode stands, one-line swap when E lands.

-> A (finding, measured): only a slice of shops front a MAIN edge on real towns -- katoomba 7/69, fremantle
   4/79, bendigo 7/35, newtown 32/64, castlemaine 11/22. The real high street classifies as 'side', which is
   WHY three towns need the fence. If the main/side classifier promoted shop-dense ways to main, the fence
   would lift. Note onMain also gates gigs.js pickVenues pub placement.
-> F: tram verdict above; selector gating (HUD vs ?dbg) is your call, one line either way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 19:35:56 +10:00
m3ultra
73694c97aa Lane B round 19 (v4.0-alpha): in-game town selector (ledger #4, beta pull-forward, non-blocking)
Shipped the town picker in hud.js (which already owns its DOM overlay -> NO index.html seam). A compact
<select> in the HUD (top-left, pointer-events:auto), 9 options: synthetic + 3 OSM fixtures (osmTownKeys
minus _real) + 5 real-road caches (Katoomba/Newtown/Fremantle/Bendigo/Castlemaine, hardcoded REAL_TOWNS --
no manifest yet, beta derives it). Selecting navigates: synthetic clears plansrc/town; a town sets
?plansrc=osm&town=<key>, preserving all other params. Current pre-selected; unknown-current still shown.
Verified end-to-end: picked katoomba_real through the dropdown -> booted real Katoomba (966 edges/323
intersections/3 venues), 0 errors. Lives inside #pc-hud so hud.setVisible(false) hides it for money shots.

-> F (B->F seam): NONE -- self-contained in hud.js (already constructed by createHUD). Gate it behind ?dbg
   with one setVisible call if you prefer; left always-in-HUD as a modest debug-grade feature.

Corner-strips spot-check (R18 failure-item #3): ground fills real intersections OK -- degree-4 junction
(58 exist) shows road strips overlap-filling the junction, lane markings + zebra crossing render, no gross
gap. Acceptable for alpha; finer acute-angle pass = beta.

Budget note -> F (measured vs A's UNCOMMITTED WIP -- caveat, not a defect): F's BIG_CITY one-liner is live
(chunks 50->26). But venue block still ~237k tris at night against the current tree, which carries A's
uncommitted R19 finalization (plan_osm modified; graph grew 799->966 edges, junction-joining in but the
far-island CULL not yet). Fable's ruling: the cull is "half of B's tris problem" -> the <=200k gate needs
F's fix AND A's committed cull. Re-measure the busiest real block after A pins (the deferred tris-post-cull
re-measure genuinely waits on A's commit; the dev server serves other lanes' uncommitted edits).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 17:38:59 +10:00
m3ultra
d4fcf68860 Lane B round 18 (v4.0-alpha REAL ROADS): irregular-geometry audit (ledger #4) — the failure list
Audited katoomba_real on E's real roads (schema v2, 484 OSM ways -> 799-edge/872-node graph, 126 real
intersections, edges 3.5m-1303m incl 28 short <12m, ~4x5km span). E's roads landed mid-audit; verified
fresh Chromium, cache-busted. Docs-only (no code change: streetscape is road-agnostic).

VERDICT: Lane B streetscape is ROAD-AGNOSTIC — boots real Katoomba 0-error, every B system builds and
renders on the irregular graph (ground, furniture 39 chunks/148 trees, town-wide pools, tram, chunk
streaming, buildings, wind). Real main street reads well (road+footpath+lamps+working gig poster+citizens).
Like C's interiors, needed no code change to eat real geometry.

FINDING -> F (gate-blocking, PROVEN one-line fix): the BIG_CITY adaptive heuristic misfires on real roads.
index.html BIG_CITY = plan.shops.length>120 -> Katoomba has 20 shops(<120) but 799 edges/5km, so it stays
small-town mode (radius 3 + shadows ON), streams 50-52 chunks -> busiest venue block ~280k tris (clean,
settled) = BREACHES 200k gate (draws 150 <300). Proven fix: ?r=2&shadows=0 (BIG_CITY mode) -> 84k day /
104k night, 20 chunks, 72 draws, well under. Recommend: BIG_CITY = shops>120 || edges>200 (catches
Katoomba's 799, leaves synthetic Boolarra's 22). B's R3 adaptive-streaming concept, edge-count not shop-count.

Tram (Fable's flagged spine risk): degrades gracefully, no crash. spinePolyline runs one main chain =
3527m/49 edges = 21% of 232 mains (longest walkable chain). Arbitrary-but-functional for alpha; smarter
route or hard fence = beta (no plan.mode marker exposed to fence off; didn't add untested fencing).

Furniture/pools scale: town-wide pools ~4989 instances = still ~1 draw; 28 short edges get 0 lamps
(graceful). Correction: the disconnected graph I first saw was a synthetic-fixture DP artifact (junction
vertices dropped on near-collinear ways) — real Katoomba forms 126 intersections correctly; flagged to A.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 16:35:55 +10:00
m3ultra
ee16545941 Lane B round 17 (v3.2): wind sway SHIPS -- weather-driven gum-tree sway (ledger #5, parked since R7)
Verdict: shipped, not killed. The R7 park reason ("touches shared materials") is a non-blocker under
R16's measurement-over-brief standard: the gum-tree billboard material is B-owned (furniture.js), so
this is entirely Lane B -- no C/E material seam. Verified fresh Chromium seed 20261990.

- New web/js/world/wind.js: shared uniforms (uWindTime/uWindAmp) + applyWind(material) (onBeforeCompile
  vertex patch: top-weighted horizontal sway, per-instance world-position phase, USE_INSTANCING-guarded)
  + updateWind(dt,intensity). furniture.js applies it to the tree material; weather.js drives it from
  update(dt) (base breeze 0.05 clear -> 0.05+intensity*0.30 ~0.35 rain gusts).
- Trees only. Awnings excluded by MEASUREMENT: rigid posted-verandah box slabs don't flutter (fabric
  canopy ripple = separate v3.3, shares the rigid awning InstancedMesh today).
- Byte-identical when weather off (the covenant): updateWind runs only inside weather.update, and the
  weather system isn't constructed under ?weather=0 / ?classic=1 -> uWindAmp stays 0 -> sin(...)*0.0==0.0
  -> identical vertices. Proven: amp=0 two times = 0/180000 px differ; ?weather=0 boot = 0 tree-motion px;
  ?classic=1 = amp 0, trees render, 0 errors. No plan/fetch/rng change -> F's classic gate untouched.
- Sway works: rain amp 0.305 moves ~14100/180000 region px over 0.8s (exaggerated 2.5 -> 101k); trees
  render clean, no glitch. ~0 draws (ALU ops in the existing tree InstancedMesh vertex program), 0 errors.

-> Lane F (B->F handshake): SWAY SHIPPED. In old frames under the default boot; ?classic=1/?weather=0
   sway-free + byte-identical. Procedural (no asset -> E has nothing to do).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 14:30:09 +10:00
m3ultra
54a030b38b Lane B round 16 (v3.1 THE FLIP): town-wide streetlamp pools + default-boot budget re-baseline
Ledger #4. Verified fresh Chromium seed 20261990. No new rng, goldens untouched.

- Town-wide pools (venue.js): extended the R13 instanced-pool pass from venue frontages to EVERY
  streetlight + bus shelter. New townPoolSpecs(plan) replicates furniture.js's lamp cadence off the
  plan street graph (lamp every 18m from s=8, alternating sides, off=halfRoad+0.7) and reuses the
  exported busShelterStops(plan) -- read-only, furniture.js untouched (imported one function). All
  pools ride the ONE existing InstancedMesh -> still ~1 draw: 381 instances / 1 draw / ~760 tris.
  Night-driven; fog:true now so distant pools fade into night fog (pools aren't chunk-streamed) instead
  of floating as dots. Gig-gated -> ?classic=1 is pool-free = v2 parity by construction (no always-on
  furniture change, the v3.0 blocker). Deterministic cadence, no seeded draws (release law).

- Default-boot re-baseline: measured the default content (gigs + weather=rain + winmap + tram all
  live), settled. Busiest venue block (pub, NIGHT, rain) ~157 scene / ~170 total draws, 66k tris;
  venue_night 122, queue_night 121, district_posters/street_noon 185 (worst tour shot), market_square
  fresh 97/52k. ALL <=300 draws / <=200k tris. Flip adds ~3 draws (rain 1 + tram 2; winmap 0), pools
  add ~0 (instanced). Daytime dense-citizen ceiling (~275, Lane D, live-walk) unchanged (pools night-only).

- Bookmark spot-check: all 19 resolve, un-letterboxed, 0 errors under the default boot; rain+tram+winmap
  compose cleanly in old frames (street_noon rainy 177/114k, nothing blocked). No pose fixes.

Ran before F's flip landed (out of the stated order): pools are gig-gated so they work under ?gigs now;
re-baseline uses explicit all-flags URLs = post-flip default content. F re-confirms at close.

-> Lane F (B->F handshake): default-boot busiest block ~170 total draws / 66k tris; worst street view
   185 / 131k; densest daytime 97 / 52k. All under budget. Town-wide pools ~1 draw. Pool sprite is
   procedural (E has nothing to do).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 12:21:19 +10:00
m3ultra
a0b578477c Lane B round 15: verify hero after A's poster flip + night poster readability (?gigs=1)
Verified A's ledger-#1 flip (35da83c): the pub's own-frontage poster moved from 15.9m behind the
building to 0.09m from the door on the +Z street face, facing the reader -- no queue_night pose
change needed (R14 prediction held). Gig golden 0x1f636349->0x4f4a549d consumed cleanly.

Fix (John-sanctioned exception to the R14 freeze): posters were unlit MeshStandardMaterial and
rendered pure black at NIGHT (measured frontage poster centre [183,71,59] day -> [4,0,1] night), so
queue_night + district_posters showed no readable bill even after A's flip. venue.js now gives posters
emissiveMap = the poster art, emissiveIntensity ramped in update() by night (0 day -> 0.55 night, same
lerp as glow/pools). Self-lights the bill after dark; daylight byte-identical (verified midday spine
poster pixel-unchanged). No new rng, no plan change, goldens frozen. ?noassets fallback self-lights too.

Verified fresh Chromium seed 20261990: queue_night (seg5, live queue) frames marquee + window glow +
streetlamp pools + a readable red poster by the door + queue punters (90 draws/29k tris);
district_posters night now shows a poster (was black, 180/138k); daylight unregressed.

-> Lane F (B->F handshake): HERO VERIFIED. Shoot queue_night at seg 5 (NIGHT) -- poster now reads there
   and night is needed for pools+glow; drive the queue live (rAF throttled in automation). Poster
   night-emissive rides the shell's per-frame venuePresentation.update(gigState.byVenue).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 10:11:53 +10:00
m3ultra
eee60e05a5 Lane B (Streetscape) round 14: v3.0 release — alpha-alias retirement + tour audit + queue_night hero (?gigs=1)
Release round: no new systems, no rng, goldens frozen (0x3fa36874 / gig 0x1f636349 both unmoved).
Files: audio.js, venue.js, dbg.js (+ LANE_B_NOTES). Verified fresh Chromium, seed 20261990.

- Alpha-alias readers dropped (debt #1, B first): audio.js venueGigState() loses the alias hop
  (g.venueShopId===id -> g.state); byVenue + clock fallback only. venue.js stateGetter() loses the
  bare-string arm (F passes gigState.byVenue since R13, confirmed index.html:379); seed = update(null).
  Verified live: byVenue {116:on,404:on,490:quiet} at NIGHT drives the marquee with no string arm;
  audio resolves gig-<genreKey> per venue with no alias hop. F is UNBLOCKED to delete the getters.
- Bookmark/tour audit under ?gigs=1: all 19 bookmarks resolve, frame un-letterboxed, 0 page errors,
  <=300 draws. District venue-conversions hijacked none (night_neon->Video Regal, dig_real->Retro
  Groove). No pose fixes needed. (Orphan-chunk teleport inflates tris across sequential shots -- fresh
  counts <=153k; tram_stop's real ~293k is close-range Lane D GLB ped rigs, framing fine, not a venue block.)
- queue_night bookmark added (dbg.js): John's release hero -- close 3/4 on the pub door at seg 5
  ('on'), biased to the queue side; new poseForVenueQueue() recomputes venue.js frontage geometry.
  Frames marquee + window glow + streetlamp pools + the queue (spawned live by the shell loop; F's
  gig_shot.py drives it live -- verified by manually spawning D's VenueQueue: 2 punters at the door).
- Poster-repetition call (debt #4): FINE, no ask to E -- 2 gigs tonight => 2 distinct designs
  (screenprint/Screaming Utes x7, xerox/The Dead Ringers x7); variety scales with venues playing.
- Town-wide streetlamp pools: v3.1 candidate per Fable ruling (venue-scoped for v3.0; no code).

-> Lane F: cross-lane alias sweep is CLEAN (no A/C/D/E reads it); only your own 20 tool lines in
   flags_check.py + gig_shot.py remain -- migrate to *Of(id)/venueShopIds[0] when you delete the
   gig_state.js:141-151 getters + the CITY_SPEC alias line (with A).
-> Lane A (now gates John's hero-shot poster): buildPosters item 1 still seats each venue's own
   frontage poster on local -Z (back wall, 15.9m from the +Z street facade). Flip to +sin,+cos and it
   seats by the door -- in the existing queue_night frame, no pose change. Per "don't touch world
   code," B did not work around it. Re-flagged from R13.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 08:43:22 +10:00
m3ultra
46127c7e95 Lane B (Streetscape) round 13: v3.0-beta the district — N-venue frontage + night pass + posters + queue zone (?gigs=1)
Generalises the R12 one-pub slice to all 2-4 venues and lands the night-readability polish. All
gig-gated (flags-off byte-identical, verified in a fresh browser context). Files: venue.js, audio.js, dbg.js.

- venue.js -> N venues: per-venue lit marquee/frontage on B's +Z facade side + window-light spill;
  streetlamp pools on venue blocks (one instanced warm-pool mesh, night-driven -> the Friday-night
  walk reads); town-wide posters instanced per gig (14 posters = 2 draws / 2 textures, band-name
  overprint, flat printed-poster fallback). Town-wide pools deferred (would need always-on
  furniture.js -> breaks flags-off parity).
- Queue-zone marker per venue: venue.queueZone = {x,z,ry,len} for Lane D (head at the door, extends
  along the frontage; queuer faces -ry). queueZones{} + queueZoneFor(id).
- audio.js muffled spill per-genre (debt #1): import gigKeyFor; the nearest venue at doors/on within
  26 m spills its gig-<genreKey> through the 470 Hz lowpass, so pub/band_room/RSL crossfade genre.
  F: delete the GIG_BED bridge.
- update(gigStates) polymorphic: per-venue map {[venueShopId]:state} (F wires PROCITY.gigs.byVenue)
  or alpha-compat bare string (primary pub). Contract documented for F in LANE_B_NOTES.
- ?noassets fetch fix (latent R12 bug): gate the poster JPEG fetch behind !noassets -> 0 gig-layer
  network over the 22-JPEG facade/ground baseline.
- dbg.js: venue_night + district_posters bookmarks (seg 5) so tools/qa/gig_shot.py scripts the
  street money shot; poseForVenue resolves from the live plan.

Budget (fresh Chromium, gigs-on NIGHT, busiest pub block, all frontages lit): worst 154 scene /
~167 total draws, 64k tris -- <=300 / <=200k. 0 console errors (gigs / gigs+noassets / flags-off).
Verified 3 venues seed 20261990: pub->gig-pubrock, RSL->gig-covers, band_room->gig-grunge (all in
E's manifest).

Finding for Lane A: buildPosters item 1 seats each venue-frontage poster on the lot -Z (back wall,
measured 15.9 m from the +Z street facade) -- flip to +sin,+cos. Spine/pole posters render correctly
and face the footpath ("SCREAMING UTES" readable). Non-blocking (marquee + pools carry the shot).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 23:11:10 +10:00
m3ultra
f0a0a99207 Lane B (Streetscape): round-12 v3.0-alpha — venue frontage + posters + muffled-gig spill (?gigs=1)
- web/js/world/venue.js (new): createVenuePresentation — renders E's poster skins at plan.posters with band-name overprint (nameZone, seeded template, flat fallback if JPEG missing); lit pub marquee + bulb row over the door, update(gigState) ramps the glow. Constructed by the shell/F under ?gigs (like weather/tram).
- web/js/world/audio.js: muffled-gig spill — near the venue (<=26m) while a gig is at doors/on, pubrock-live plays through a 470Hz lowpass at low distance-gain. Reads window.PROCITY.gigs (F) with a plan.gigs+clock fallback.
- Prime flag law: inert/absent without the gig layer; goldens frozen (no citygen edits, selfcheck 3074/3074); byte-identical flags-off boot.
- Verified live on a gig plan: THE WOMBATTS posters over band-photo art, The Thornbury Hotel lit at night, spill gain ~0.14. F wiring documented in LANE_B_NOTES; streetlamp-pool stretch deferred.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 20:15:40 +10:00
m3ultra
f7dd44f55a Lane B (Streetscape): round-11 audio — WebAudio engine (street side)
- web/js/world/audio.js: one AudioContext unlocked on first gesture; day/night ambience crossfade, rain (weather.intensity), footsteps, shop-door music spill (nearest open music-shop, distance-gain), tram rumble+bell, enterShop SFX. Consumes Lane E manifest.audio (3x retry). Self-ticks off window.PROCITY.
- House audio law verified live: silent pre-gesture (0 fetches), ?mute=1 silent surface (0 fetches), ?noassets=1 zero audio/manifest fetches, lazy-load (8.7MB<=25MB), no per-frame alloc.
- window.PROCITY.audio for Lane F: playInterior({musicKey,toneKey})/stopInterior (street beds duck while inside), playSfx, setMasterGain, mute, state diag. Confirms Lane C room.audio={musicKey,toneKey} contract.
- Small guarded [Lane B R11 audio] loader in index.html.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 16:00:31 +10:00
m3ultra
16c4450cd9 Lane B round-9: v2 tram (?tram=1) + tour bookmarks + rain-drop polish
- tram.js: 1 small bus, seeded out-and-back loop on the main-street spine,
  door-dwell at each busShelterStops stop, ping-pong at ends. Deterministic,
  exactly 2 draws, night headlights via lighting.isNight(). Flag-off identical.
  Shell wiring (2 lines) documented for F in LANE_B_NOTES.
- dbg.js: 8 v2 tour bookmarks (16 total) incl. rain_verandah hero shot;
  tram_stop now frames the nearest-origin (open) shelter stop.
- weather.js: cap rain gl_PointSize (clamp 2-22px) - near drops are thin
  streaks now, not blobs. Rain smoke still GREEN.
- qa.sh --strict GREEN, golden hash frozen, flags-off byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 11:09:41 +10:00
m3ultra
900b274a9a Lane B round-8: weather (?weather=1) — seeded rain/overcast/clear, exposes PROCITY.weather for D
New js/world/weather.js + a one-line lighting.setSky(). Seeded per citySeed (weatherFor):
~57/24/19% clear/overcast/rain over 400 seeds, deterministic. Rain = ONE draw (camera-following
Points + procedural streak/fall/wind shader) + wet ground (roughness/darken on shared ground mats,
restored on dispose) + matching rainy sky dome via lighting.setSky. Fully procedural (0 depot fetch).

- Exposes window.PROCITY.weather = { state:'clear'|'overcast'|'rain', intensity:0..1 } for Lane D's
  weather-reactive crowds (decision #1). Documented the contract + the exact 3-line shell wiring for F
  in LANE_B_NOTES (I don't touch index.html). ?weather=1 seeded (default town rolls clear);
  ?weather=rain|overcast|clear forces a state for demos/smokes.
- Worst view 141 draws day / 126 night (<=300); composes with ?winmap + night (rain outside a lit
  interior-mapped window = the money shot, screenshotted); deterministic; 0 console errors; flag-off
  byte-identical (shell never constructs it). Deferred cut line: vertex-shader wind sway on
  trees/awnings (touches other lanes' materials) — noted, not done. Tram stretch not attempted.

qa.sh --strict GREEN (5/5).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 02:34:14 +10:00
m3ultra
24cef5a7bb Lane B round-6: place street_bin + bus_shelter GLBs (on the street graph, collision-verified)
Consumes the two orphaned street GLBs via the use-if-ready furniture path (fail-soft; ?noassets →
primitives, 0 network).

- Bins: genuinely sparse (~1/block, s+=78m, seeded side), decoupled from benches — country town not
  a mall. GLB on its 0.57x0.68 footprint.
- Bus shelters ON THE STREET GRAPH (future tram/bus stops): deterministic rule = midpoint of every
  MAIN edge with hashEdge(id)%3===0, road-side footpath by the kerb, long axis along the edge, open
  front to road -> 1-3/town (2 in seed 20261990). Solid oriented-rect collider (furniture now returns
  colliders; chunks.js merges them into getColliders) -> walk-into-it is blocked. Exported
  busShelterStops(plan) -> [{edgeId,x,z,yaw}] as the stop-list contract for the vehicle loop.
- Perf: worst view WITH rig-fleet citizens 94k tris / 148 draws (<=200k / <=300, big margin);
  deterministic; all-flags-on (winmap+dig+roster) composes clean, 0 errors. street_bin GLB is 3k tris
  -> flagged to Lane E as a decimation candidate (bounded by the sparse cadence for now).

qa.sh --strict GREEN.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 23:04:14 +10:00
m3ultra
2a923b61e6 Lane B round-5 (v2): parallax interior-mapping window glass behind ?winmap=1
The Vuntra window trick — a passing pedestrian sees a plausible room through the shop glass with real
parallax, no geometry. One shared ShaderMaterial does single-cube interior mapping on the existing
window mesh (back wall + seeded shelves + side walls + floor/ceiling); per-shop variation via
aTangent/aTint/aSeed attributes, still 1 window draw/chunk. §3.5 held via the shared uHour/uNight +
aHours: night → open room glows warm, closed room dark.

v2 prime law: WINMAP is read from the URL in buildings.js (self-contained — no index.html seam; F
just needs a flags-table row). Flag-OFF byte-identical to v1 (windowQuad → v1 hoursQuad, v1
windowMaterial). Proven: flag-off windows MeshStandardMaterial w/ no winmap attrs; flag-on interior
ShaderMaterial; worst view 122-168 draws (<=300); 100% procedural (0 fetch delta vs ?noassets
baseline); 0 console errors; GOLDEN.hash untouched. Screenshots in docs/shots/laneB/winmap_*.

qa.sh --strict GREEN (4/4).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 21:00:57 +10:00
m3ultra
6323d58736 Lane B round-4: closed facades (§3.5) + shot poses/letterbox + furniture GLB + novelty_record
- B1: per-shop closed-facade visuals — dark windows + red CLOSED plate + door tooltip, batched via a
  per-vertex aHours attr + two shared shaders + one uHour/uNight uniform pair on a procity:segment
  event (facade atlas untouched, no per-shop materials, no per-frame poll). 22:00 → only the openLate
  video shop lit, all others CLOSED; ~200 draws worst-view with citizens.
- B2: the shots 'letterbox' was camera-jammed-into-a-wall poses, not a composer bug (composer proven
  correctly sized headless). Reframed street_noon/arcade/warehouse to look down a street
  (streetViewPose), added the 3 missing bookmarks, night_neon now frames the lit video shop amid
  CLOSED neighbours, + a defensive composer resize. shots.py: 10 un-letterboxed shots, 0 errors.
- B3: furniture GLB use-if-ready upgrade (bench + food_cart, sit on their footprints) + novelty_record
  placed at record stores. novelty_record GLB is 26.5k tris (5x glb_law) → stays low-poly primitive
  until Lane E decimates it; ?noassets verified 0 network.

qa.sh --strict GREEN (4/4).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 19:59:27 +10:00
m3ultra
fafd5a700a Lane B (Streetscape): round-3 — scene.environment for PBR peds + budget re-measure with citizens
- lighting.js sets scene.environment (neutral PMREM sky->ground gradient, no asset) in attachRenderer, before CitizenSim constructs; Lane D rig-fleet peds bake their impostor atlas from it and render dark if null. Verified set in street/night/interior + after interior-return.
- Re-measured worst continuous-walk view WITH citizens (pop 140, 125 active peds) via window.DBG: 263 scene / 275 total midday, 275 night -- <=300 everywhere. Radius-2 auto already the spawn default.
- Round-3 task 3 (furniture GLB footprints) standby: Fable s3.4 manifest upgrade not yet landed.
- Docs: LANE_B_NOTES.md + B-progress.md round-3 updates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 16:00:22 +10:00
m3ultra
5313402e43 Lane B (Streetscape): chunk-streamed walkable town shell
First-person shell: chunk streaming, instanced buildings + facade texture atlas
(22 facade materials -> 1; 5 skin materials city-wide), signs, awnings, furniture,
day/night lighting, minimap, pixel-accurate collision (incl. arbitrary-angle lots),
door raycast -> procity:enterShop, DBG harness, all-fallback mode. Renders Lane A's
full generated town (seed 20261990 'Boolarra Heads', 493 shops); worst continuous-
walk view ~261 draws (<=300 gate). 6 adversarial-review bugs fixed (collision sign,
house doors, awning skin, sign atlas, furniture seed hash, shot-mode restore).

index.html and skins.js include Lane F's inline integration seam edits (marked
'[Lane F integration]'): interior/keeper/citizen wiring + facade filename fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 14:28:47 +10:00