Ledger #3 (E's G item), #6 (provenance prep), + the C/E contract review.
- MODELBEAST notes (#3): pipeline/README.md's toolchain row claimed sf3d/trellis_mac were 'HF-gated
(setup needed)' -- ultra was right, that was stale (weights cached; trellis_mac 15/15 on thriftgod
Tier-1; the :8777 queue also runs bg_remove_local/mflux_image_edit/seedvr2_upscale). Corrected.
Ultra's finish-farm post-mortem folded into the props section VERBATIM + credited, with Fable's
Ruling 1 amendment (NO-DRACO: drop --compress draco, rest of the command stands). Noted that our
bake_lowpoly.py / decimate_props.py are NOT the finish farm, so nobody conflates them.
- Provenance v4-FINAL (#6): the frozen table carries the pack (22 towns, all 8 states/territories,
1192 shops + roads[], ODbL, raw snapshots) + a row for Lane G's newtown_godverse attributed to G.
The licence spine is complete -- nothing shipped is unaccounted.
- BUG: index.json still listed 22 -- generated before the dd4489c merge, so newtown_godverse was
invisible to B's selector while R22 verifies at 23-town scale. Regenerated -> 23 towns (selfcheck
ALL GREEN 161300/161300). Index is now self-describing: state reads from the cache first, then my
config, so any lane's town rosters itself.
- G2a atlas contract review (E's half; C answers interior ceilings in LANE_C_PUB): Fable's priors all
hold. Atlas-per-shop is an UPGRADE if the loader disposes on room exit -- today stockpack.js never
disposes (R9: 181MB resident, accreting). Without dispose, per-shop strands ~16MB/shop (~190MB per
town visited, unbounded across 23 towns). With dispose: ~4MB resident at 1024², ~45x better than
today. Also: size the atlas to the shop (<=1024², not 2048² for a 6-item shop); reuse my index
schema verbatim so stockpack.js/fail-soft-to-parody/?noassets/validate_pack all work unchanged;
the R8 parody law (parodied metadata, real cover art) is unchanged.
-> Lane G: add "state":"NSW" to newtown_godverse.json and the index picks it up automatically.
-> Lane C: the R9 dispose-on-exit cache-cap is now load-bearing for G2a (my VRAM numbers above).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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All five lanes in (A's venue cluster bias, B's selector-from-index, C's density door-soak, D's relocation
verify PASSES, E's 22-town pack non-gating); F gated and tagged.
- town_matrix.py: a `tram` dimension — B's R20 shop-adjacency ruling verified EXACTLY (newtown runs 16 stops
after B's phantom-stop fix, castlemaine 10; katoomba/fremantle/bendigo FENCED at 3/2/1 shops fronted, all
below the 5-shop floor). 10 towns x 7 gates: boot/determ/district/roads/tram/noassets green on all ten.
- index.html: expose window.PROCITY.tram — B built `routeInfo` FOR F's smoke but nothing published it; F owns
the shell, so F wired the seam.
- RECORDED (ledger #6b — the instruction was "record the new number"): the venue_night re-measure. A's cap
WORKED (posters 438->111) but E's density widening ate it — katoomba 200,965 (+965, R19) -> 221,935
(+21,935, +11%); bendigo 201k (+0.5%); fremantle/newtown/castlemaine in budget. Draws fine everywhere
(151/300 — half budget); tris-only, at the worst night stress view. Filed as R22's first item, where the
tri-diet backlog (instrument LOD, tram tri diet) already lives. katoomba is the outlier: 966 edges, 72 shops.
- Ruling (ledger #6d): the town selector stays ALWAYS-IN-HUD, not ?dbg-gated — THE REAL MAP's product IS the
towns. Corollary (F's own gap): money shots hide the HUD; the R19 alpha shot had the selector in-frame
because F's harness screenshotted the full viewport.
- Beta money shot: Fremantle's real street at golden hour — a corridor of shopfronts, footpaths, a crossing,
gum trees, and a genuinely busy crowd (the density widening, visible). 126d/167k tris, HUD hidden.
- docs: LANE_F_NOTES §20 (the honest why-R20-had-no-tag record) + §21, README beta paragraph, F-progress.
qa.sh --strict GREEN; selfcheck 154141/154141 (A's re-pinned goldens hold).
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Verified A's venue cluster-adjacency bias (110c828), assigned from my R20 relocation
finding. selfcheck ALL GREEN 154141/154141 against A's re-pinned goldens.
ACCEPTANCE PASSES ON ALL FIVE (no venue with <3 shops in its 160m radius):
katoomba min 9 | newtown min 5 | bendigo min 5 | castlemaine min 4 | fremantle min 3.
Castlemaine's floor did NOT need an exemption.
MY HEADLINE FINDING IS CLOSED: katoomba's pub — "a gig with no passing crowd", 1 shop
at 1007m — now sits at 466m with 9 shops. Newtown is the dramatic fix: all three venues
were 2.2-2.4km out with 0-1 shops; its rsl now sits 29m from the hub with 11.
THE CROWD FOLLOWED (katoomba pub, same density/seed/21:00): passing crowd 34->66 (2x),
patron checks 226->442 (2x), inside frames 1042->1424, roster 2->3, 0 NaN.
TWO READINGS THAT NEED CARE:
- fremantle is the weakest pass: pub/rsl clear the >=3 bar but moved FURTHER from the
primary hub (969->1352m, 561->1292m) — A's bias optimises local cluster adjacency and
they found a secondary cluster. Letter satisfied, crowd healthy (pub roster 6, inside
2741), so not a miss — just named. A's call if they want it tighter.
- venue-win % DROPPING is not a regression (newtown rsl 100%->21%). It was only 100%
because the venue was alone; post-bias it has neighbours competing for finds while
total crowd rose. Isolation flatters that metric — ignore it post-bias.
D->F: relocation verify GREEN, no gate concern for v4.0-beta.
FYI F: selfcheck scans every towns/*.json on disk incl. E's UNTRACKED pack WIP — I saw
it transiently RED (newcastle_real, no open-late shop) then green minutes later. If you
gate while E is mid-fetch you may catch a false red; check if a failure is a pack town.
Still filed for v4.x: GIG_RANGE 34m radius vs single-chunk lookup (8.7% chunk-blind).
Flagged as unowned: R20's main-street relocation half (hero strip vs densest cluster).
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Ledger #5 pull-forward. Nothing here touches a golden until A absorbs in R22; F tags v4.0-beta with
or without it. selfcheck ALL GREEN 154141/154141, synthetic 0x3fa36874 unmoved, all 22 byte-identical
on re-run.
- Curated 18 candidates on secondhand density first (heroes are the game), a walkable 2-3.4km centre,
and a national spread; 17 survived -> 22 towns, 1192 shops, 298 heroes, all 8 states/territories.
fitzroy is the mecca (40 heroes/160 shops, 2x katoomba); thin tail toowoomba/darwin (3 heroes) left
in as honest data -- A/Fable may drop them in R22.
- FINDING: the 3x-hero cap is a CURATION FILTER, not just a density knob. Wollongong had ~62 real
shops but 1 hero -> capped to 4 -> dropped by the >=6 floor. A town without a secondhand strip
cannot inflate into a retail strip; John's SUBTLE directive does quality control for free.
- Newcastle: my centre was wrong, not the town (CBD held 2 heroes; the strip is Hamilton/Beaumont St).
Re-centred: 2 -> 9 heroes, 8 -> 36 shops.
- BUG (mine, shipped R18, caught here): fetch_roads_raw had no query-comparison while fetch_raw did,
so re-centring refetched shops but silently reused the OLD CBD roads -> Hamilton shops seated against
a graph 2.5km away -> the town marched out with ZERO shops (surfacing as 32 bogus 'open-late
invariant' failures; ten other no-video towns passing is what proved it wasn't the open-late rule).
Fixed: the roads path now compares its query too -- the bbox lives in the query, so a re-centre must
invalidate BOTH snapshots. Newcastle rebuilt: 34 shops seated, openLate=1.
- Discipline: bounded bboxes, raw snapshots committed (shops+roads), C's §6 mapping, SUBTLE guardrails
(heroes never subsampled, texture 3x, 2392 drops counted), ODbL. Overpass rate-limits hard at pack
scale (batch 1 died on a fatal 504 after 25 retries) -- courtesy sleep 4s, two polite batches.
-> Lane A (R22): 34 goldens to pin (17 new towns x base+gig); sizes 12->160 shops load-test your
capacity/overflow fences. -> Lane B: index.json now lists 22 towns (your selector already reads it).
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Wave 2 — ran after A's venue cluster-adjacency bias landed (110c828), so the soak reads the
relocated world + A's re-pinned goldens. The carried R20 #6.
Five towns at their new densities, ~25 deterministically sampled doors/town (sample takes one
of EVERY type present, then stride-fills, so the texture classes' first real appearance is
always covered):
town shops sampled venues types worst draws verdict
katoomba_real 72 25 3 10 157 PASS
newtown_real 67 25 3 11 155 PASS
fremantle_real 79 25 3 11 153 PASS
bendigo_real 35 25 3 10 154 PASS
castlemaine_real 23 23(all) 3 8 156 PASS
123 doors: 0 throws / 0 carves / 0 path-fails / 0 over-budget, worst 157 draws (<=350).
typesInTown == typesSampled in every town (all archetypes entered, incl. all 3 venue kinds).
All five towns landed 3 venues -> A's cluster bias + district placement hold at density.
§6 mapping verified live: katoomba cache = 20 heroes + 60 texture (exactly E's 3x cap, heroes
untouched). Texture's first real appearance renders right -- "Blue Mountains Chocolate Company"
(real OSM shop=chocolate) wears milkbar as a believable confectionery counter shop. Texture,
not takeover. Cache->plan deltas are A's counted drops, not an interior concern.
C->F: density verdict GREEN. Docs-only.
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D found katoomba's pub 1,000m from the retail cluster — a gig with no passing crowd. Measuring all
five towns first showed it was SYSTEMIC: 11 of 15 venues sat with <3 shops within 160m (newtown's were
0/0/1 — every venue stranded). After the bias: 0 of 15. Katoomba's pub 1 → 9. Castlemaine cleared without
needing the floor exception the brief anticipated.
- pickVenues builds a CLUSTER-ADJACENT field first (>= CLUSTER_MIN 3 shops within CLUSTER_R 160m), then the
kind flavors (pub corner / band_room fringe / rsl off-spine) bias WITHIN that field rather than overriding
it (per the brief: biases, not absolutes) — a fringe band_room in the cluster beats one a kilometre from
anyone. A town with no cluster at all falls back to the pool.
- SYNTHETIC FROZEN BY CONSTRUCTION, not by luck. The brief assumed a blanket filter would be a no-op because
'the synthetic town is one dense cluster anyway'. Measurement says otherwise: 4 synthetic candidates PER
SEED sit under the threshold (min cluster 0-1), so a blanket filter WOULD have moved the frozen golden.
Gated on plan.source === 'osm' (undefined on synthetic) — impossible rather than unlikely. The marched
fixtures are 'osm' but genuinely dense (min cluster 3/11/13) ⇒ verified no-op.
- Only the GIG goldens moved (venue selection is gig-layer; base town goldens untouched): katoomba
0xbf586b77, newtown 0xacdb3eee, fremantle 0xcf3426fc, bendigo 0x646b2c23, castlemaine 0xf9713a69.
classic 0x3fa36874 / gig 0xb1d48ea1 / marched fixtures FROZEN. selfcheck ALL GREEN 66419/66419;
scaffold + consistency GREEN; cross-process deterministic.
- FYI: E's v4.0 pack (glebe/marrickville/newcastle) already boots clean through my loader (validates + full
suites pass), listed UNPINNED — I pin the pack in R22; it does not gate the beta tag.
Handshake → C + D: cluster bias landed, goldens re-pinned, start your verifies (before/after table in
LANE_A_NOTES §R21).
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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.
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godverse_town.py marries a donor OSM cache's roads[] with thriftgod's DealGod-scraped
shop census (2,928 real AU secondhand shops) -> <town>_godverse.json, schema v2 unchanged.
First artifact newtown_godverse boots clean (?plansrc=osm&town=newtown_godverse).
Lane brief + asks (Draco ruling, per-town bookmarks, enterShop selector) in
docs/LANES/LANE_G_GODVERSE.md + G-progress.md.
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Re-ran everything against A's absorbed graph (5d29863, selfcheck 51866/51866).
Katoomba barely moved from my pre-absorb read (null 77.2->78.1, visits 64->62,
hero share 30->29%), so the earlier conclusion held.
SIM VERDICT: zero changes needed at 4x density. All five towns: 0 NaN, chunk rosters
stream (15-24), identity sigs accumulate (262-483), patronage/loiter/bench-sit all fire,
up to 401 active peds, no degradation. Determinism unchanged (identity is graph+seed
keyed; shops don't touch it). D->F: GREEN.
THE FINDING (for E/C/Fable): the widening MOVED the main street off the secondhand strip.
Hero visit-share falling (29%->0%) is NOT a behaviour bug — patronage is type-agnostic, so
visits track the local mix exactly. The mix is the story. Pre-widening the densest cluster
WAS the secondhand strip (katoomba: 9 of 9 main-street shops were heroes). Post-widening
the centre of gravity relocated 308m (katoomba) / 434m (castlemaine) onto the general-
retail cluster, where heroes are a 0-19% minority. Castlemaine's main street now has ZERO
secondhand shops (0 of 4 heroes within 160m; median hero 463m away). The heroes weren't
drowned in place — they were demoted: the liveliest street is no longer theirs.
The good half stands: heroes kept absolute footfall (katoomba 17->18 visits) and the
street is 3.8x busier. The widening works; it overshot the dial. This is exactly the case
John's directive pre-authorised ("E may seed-subsample the texture classes"). My read
(measurement, not a ruling — E/C/Fable own it): subsample texture until the secondhand
strip is again the densest cluster. Sparse towns need it most (bendigo 7%, castlemaine 0%).
ALSO FILED (A/F): venues land off the retail hub at density — newtown's three are all
2190-2433m out with 0-1 neighbours; katoomba's pub still 1007m/1 (A's "pub facade bias"
fixed frontage, not position). Quality call, not a break; "venue placement still lands"
is A's ledger + F's district gate. Castlemaine shows the good case (band_room on the hub).
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E's five caches landed at 3-6x shops (292 total: katoomba 20→80, fremantle 21→80, newtown 18→72,
bendigo 9→36, castlemaine 6→24). All five absorb cleanly and still place 3 venues; the R20 poster cap
auto-scaled off the live shop count exactly as designed (katoomba 111 posters at 80 shops).
- CAPACITY WIDENED (the R18 overflow fence, load-tested). At 4x the dominant drop cause was OVERFLOW —
an edge-side holding more shops than fit (katoomba 10 of 11 drops). Tightened the run: NODE_CLEAR 6→3
and a ROADS-ONLY RGAP 2→0.5 (the shared marched GAP is untouched ⇒ marched fixtures stay frozen).
Drops 7.9% → 5.5% (16/292). 0.5m also reads truer — a real AU main street is continuous terrace
shopfronts, not detached boxes. Stopped there deliberately: the next lever (spilling overflow onto a
DIFFERENT street) buys ~1% by putting a shop on a road it isn't on — dropping a crowded shop is the
honest trade. Residual drops stay COUNTED, now BY CAUSE (dropped_overflow/_overlap/_stranded).
- VENUE FACADE BIAS NOW COVERS pub. R16 exempted pub ('spine-fronted, +Z always open') — true on the
synthetic/marched towns, but on a REAL graph at density the pub landed where its frontage poster
overhung a cross street (newtown, -0.91m). The POSTER_CLEAR filter now covers every venue kind; still a
NO-OP on synthetic (every pub candidate already clears) ⇒ gig golden 0xb1d48ea1 frozen.
- Goldens re-pinned ONCE (base + gig, all five towns). classic 0x3fa36874 / gig 0xb1d48ea1 / marched
fixtures FROZEN. selfcheck ALL GREEN 51866/51866; scaffold + consistency GREEN; cross-process
deterministic.
- Fixed: my real-cache loader globbed *.json and tried to validate E's new index.json as a town cache —
it now skips it (that's B's selector index, not a cache).
Handshake → all: densities absorbed, goldens pinned. → F: re-measure venue_night + gate the five towns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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SELF-CORRECTION first. My part-1 note called the 95-98% patronage null rate
"sparsity-throttled" and made it the headline metric. Both halves were wrong:
(1) it was measured at 21:00, when only 4 of 69 shops are open — retail is shut BY
DESIGN, so a high night null is correct behaviour, not sparsity; (2) it sampled each
town's first venue, and katoomba's is the pub — 1000m from the retail cluster with 1
neighbour. I had parked the camera on the one isolated venue in town. Same town, same
seed: at the pub 99.4% null / 0 visits; on the actual main street 77.2% / 64 visits.
The gig-crowd table stands (it measures the mechanism — 0 NaN, rosters, venue-win —
which is location-independent); only my sparsity reading was bad.
THE REAL A/B (main street, 14:00, same seed, pre-cache from git vs E's widened):
hub density 8 -> 25 shops within 160m; null 90.2% -> 77.2%; total visits 17 -> 64
(3.8x); hero visits 17 -> 19; texture visits 0 -> 45; hero share 100% -> 30% of visits
from 26% of shops.
THE DIRECTIVE LANDS, measured from the crowd side: the secondhand heroes did NOT lose
footfall (17 -> 19). The 45 texture visits are added ON TOP, not taken from them. The
street is 3.8x busier while the heroes stay over-indexed. "More alive, not a different
game."
FILED: (a) venue placement at density — katoomba's rsl/band_room sit in the strip
(13/10 neighbours) but the pub is 1000m out with 1; a gig there has no passing retail
crowd. Quality observation, A/F's lane. (b) GIG_RANGE is a 34m radius but
_nearestOpenShop searches only the ped's own 64m chunk — 8.7% of in-range peds are
chunk-blind. Real but small; v4.x candidate, not a mid-beta hot-path change.
POST numbers are vs E's committed caches but BEFORE A's absorb (11/80 still overflow-
drop). Final re-run + the other four towns once A lands.
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Ledger #2 (E's half), built to C's LANE_C_PUB §6 table under John's SUBTLE directive.
- Widened fetch: C's tasteful staple list (shop=* + amenity=cafe per C's dagger note), mapped through
C's copy-paste table onto EXISTING registry types (no new archetypes). Guardrails honoured: no
vehicle/fuel/funeral/storage/industrial, no pure services. New raw snapshot per town (the fetcher
auto-refetches when the class list changes -- query recorded in each snapshot), committed like the first.
- SUBTLE by construction: secondhand HEROES never subsampled; texture capped at 3x heroes (top of C's
~2-3x band), over-cap towns seed-subsampled deterministically (sha256(townKey:osmId)) with every drop
counted in counts.textureDropped. Result 3.0x in all five: katoomba 20+60 (-4), newtown 18+54 (-156),
fremantle 20+60 (-81), bendigo 9+27 (-81), castlemaine 6+18 (-43). Density 6-21 -> 24-80 shops (3-4x).
- web/assets/towns/index.json (new, E-owned): {schema, generated, license, attribution, towns[{key, town,
state, shops, roads}]} -- B's selector can drop the REAL_TOWNS hardcode (hud.js:11).
- Deterministic (byte-identical re-run, 0 re-fetch). ODbL: SOURCES.md + per-cache license/attribution.
-> Lane A (absorb pass): (1) 10 expected golden re-pins -- the widening moves every real town's base+gig
golden (designed E->A handoff); synthetic 0x3fa36874 UNMOVED, fixtures frozen. (2) SEAM: index.json
trips selfcheck's town glob (selfcheck.js:467 takes every top-level towns/*.json as a cache) -- one-line
fix in your file: .filter(f => f.endsWith('.json') && f !== 'index.json'). Didn't touch selfcheck.js
(yours, you're mid-round in it); Fable spec'd the index at this path so the path stays.
-> Lane C: kept video_games -> video (absent from your §6 table; was already shipping as video pre-widening,
so the fallback would have regressed it to opshop). Same family, same target -- flagging for your table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unblocked half of "citizens at density": the gig crowd's BEHAVIOUR on all five
real towns' venues, measured BEFORE E's widening so the after-table is a real A/B.
Density re-audit follows once E's caches + A's absorb land.
BEHAVIOUR IS CORRECT ON ALL FIVE: 0 NaN everywhere; tonightRoster populates (2-7),
so R14 identity continuity holds on real bones; every town generates 3 venues
(pub/band_room/rsl) on night hours; and the surge works — whenever a patronage check
finds any shop, the gig venue beats ordinary shopfronts (venue-win 100% on newtown/
fremantle/bendigo, 74% katoomba). Castlemaine's 40% is the 6-shop floor, not a leak:
3 of its 6 shops ARE venues, so "other" hits are mostly other venues.
FINDING (quantifies Fable's ledger #2 "real towns are sparse"): the crowd is
SPARSITY-throttled — 94.9-97.7% of patronage checks return null on every town, because
peds spend nearly all their time in shopless chunks (katoomba: 19 shops in ~5 door-chunks
of a ~78x78-chunk town). The mechanism is fine; the town has no shops per chunk. The
density widening attacks exactly this — null% is my headline before/after metric.
FILED (not fixed): GIG_RANGE is a 34m radius but _nearestOpenShop searches only the
ped's own 64m chunk, so in-range peds across a chunk edge are blind to the gig — 8.7%
of in-range ped-samples (852/9740) on katoomba. Small vs the 97% sparsity throttle;
not worth a hot-path change mid-beta. Revisit if the widening leaves null% high.
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The density widening's C half: real towns fetch general retail, not just secondhand.
Published the OSM shop-class -> registry-archetype mapping in LANE_C_PUB.md §6 (new
v4.0-beta amendment; frozen venue contract §0-§5 untouched). C->E handshake: E builds to it.
- No new archetypes. General retail wears existing recipes: food/grocer/newsagent/chemist
-> milkbar; clothes/hardware/big-retail -> dept; produce/florist -> stall.
- Secondhand stays the hero (charity->opshop, books->book, music->record, video->video,
pawn->pawn, toys->toy); never subsampled. Unknown/unlisted -> opshop (R18-proven).
- Subtle per John: texture not takeover. Copy-paste JSON map + tasteful fetch list (skip
vehicle/funeral/industrial/pure-services) + guardrail for E to subsample if retail drowns
the secondhand strip (count in norm.dropped).
- Mechanic: plan_osm keeps registry types, so E bakes a registry type per the map into each
cache's shop.type -> no C code change, budgets unchanged.
Pre-validated before E builds to it: milkbar/dept/stall/opshop all build valid at a real
katoomba lot (8.5x14, 0 carves, <=143 draws); dept reads as a clean dressed-retail floor
(shelves+racks+counter, escalator does not dominate the 7.9x11.7 hall) -> clothes/hardware
-> dept confirmed. Full five-town door-soak (ledger #6) follows E's re-emitted caches.
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Closes my own R19 finding + F's one open budget edge. A sparse REAL town has few shops but a big edge
graph, so the 'two posters per main edge' pole run reads busy (katoomba 438) and drove venue_night to
200,965 tris (+0.5% over the 200k soft ceiling).
- gigs.js buildPosters caps the spine pole run at POSTER_PER_SHOP × shops (1.5/shop, floor 12) — a seeded
subsample. SCALED BY SHOP COUNT, not edge count (the whole point). katoomba 438→31 posters (~2x the
synthetic feel), fremantle 32, castlemaine 14. NO-OP on the shop-dense synthetic town (493 shops ⇒ cap
~740 ≫ its ~15 posters), so the synthetic gig golden 0xb1d48ea1 stays FROZEN.
- Posters are gig-layer (withGigs), so the real-town BASE goldens are unchanged (correctly green). Added
REAL_TOWN_GIG_GOLDENS (the full district+capped-poster plan per town: katoomba 0xbd332e83, …) to
regression-guard the capped output byte-exact, not just via districtInvariants. classic/gig/marched
fixtures frozen; selfcheck ALL GREEN 51675/51675; scaffold + consistency GREEN; cross-process deterministic.
→ F: re-measure venue_night, the +965 edge should close. Density absorb (ledger #2) pends E's widened
caches — the poster cap already reads the live shop count, so it auto-scales to the widened towns.
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A resolved the R18 findings (fragmentation cull/join, poster clamp, goldens pinned) + D verified; F gated.
- town_matrix.py: a `roads` dimension — a schema-v2 cache (roads[]) must build the REAL street graph
(norm.mode==='roads', read via the plan_osm opts.report sink); synthetic/fixtures stay marched/synthetic.
10 towns x 6 gates: real roads green everywhere; classic/default proven untouched (roads ride the cache
schema, not a flag — 0x3fa36874 frozen).
- docs/shots/v4_alpha/katoomba_mainstreet.png: the first real-street money shot — Katoomba's actual main
street (asphalt + lane markings, footpaths, a pedestrian crossing, a walking crowd, gig posters, B's town
selector in-frame), PROCITY's look on real bones, 121k tris midday.
- docs: LANE_F_NOTES §18 (why F correctly HELD in R18 — the gate would have failed by design) + §19 (the
close), README real-roads note, F-progress.
qa.sh --strict --soak GREEN 7/7. One filed NON-blocking finding: katoomba_real venue_night 200,965 tris
(+965 / 0.5% over the soft ceiling, poster-count-scales-with-real-edges driven; midday play is 121k) — a
v4.0-beta hardening item (A caps posters per real town), on the opt-in --matrix warn-gate, not a play view.
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Post-fix re-measure of my R18 finding against A's committed connectivity pass
(6fc4b40). Same harness, same seed.
VERDICT: fragmentation fully resolved, sim untouched. Real Katoomba:
components 105 -> 1, street-metres in main 58.2% -> 100%, shops stranded 2 -> 0
(1 bridged, 1 dropped past SEAT_MAX AND counted in norm.dropped), % near-crowd on
fragments ~10% -> 0%. selfcheck 51670/51670 green, katoomba golden pinned.
Mechanism check: re-ran R18's dead-straight-through-junction geometry — R18 dropped
the junction (deg 2, disconnected); R19 protects it (deg-4 crossroads, 1 component).
DP-collinear drop fixed at the source.
Sim confirm on the fixed bridged graph: 0 NaN over 1,303,200 samples, footpath-perfect,
loiter/bench-sit fire, patronage rose 24->41 (peds reach shops across the connected
graph), 0 fragment-stranded peds. Zero sim changes, as R18 predicted.
D->F: fragmentation verdict post-fix is GREEN — tag away. FYI B/F: edges rose 799->966
(junction protection + bridges), flagged for the tris budget.
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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).
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A's finalization (ledger #1), the round's spine. Every filed R18/R19 finding resolved; the tag is F's.
- Fragmentation (D's finding; Fable ruled, A owns details). The naive real graph fragmented (katoomba 105
components, 58% street-metres on islands). plan_osm.buildRealRoads now: (a) JUNCTION-PROTECTED
Douglas-Peucker — a point shared by >=2 ways is a junction; simplify only BETWEEN junctions, never
through one (the collinear tee-off drop, the root cause) → 94-100% main-net alone; (b) cull/bridge —
main component + near-fragments joined (JOIN_TOL 12m; shop-island bridge <=200m), far SHOPLESS islands
culled. Result: 1 connected component on all 5 towns (katoomba 100% main-net, 2 islands culled). Every
dropped shop COUNTED in norm.dropped (ruling): katoomba 19/20 (1 crowd drop — R18 overflow prediction
measured), the other four kept all.
- E's poster-clearance finding fixed (gigs.js): a spine poster overhanging a real crossing carriageway is
skipped, measured exactly as the selfcheck kerb floor — a NO-OP on synthetic (gig golden frozen, pr()
consumed before the check). 23 real-town clearance failures → 0.
- Goldens pinned (A->E->A finalization): all 5 real towns on their real-roads output (katoomba 0xb7ffbca2,
newtown 0x6f984c81, fremantle 0xfb197000, bendigo 0x21179b3b, castlemaine 0x7c47f639). synthetic
0x3fa36874 / gig 0xb1d48ea1 / marched fixtures / classic / default FROZEN — the alpha changed nothing
outside the cache-schema path. selfcheck ALL GREEN 51670/51670; scaffold + consistency GREEN. Cross-
process deterministic.
- New finding filed (beta, non-blocking): spine-poster density scales with edges (katoomba 438 vs ~14
synthetic; draws low via instancing) → a beta posters-per-town cap.
Handshake fired → B/C/D/F: katoomba_real boots real roads, golden pinned, findings resolved.
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E's roads landed (katoomba_real now schema v2, 484 real roads), so re-ran the door soak
against the real street graph (closes the R18 "re-run when roads land" caveat).
Honest caveat: the dev server also served Lane A's UNCOMMITTED R19 fragmentation WIP
(plan_osm.js: JOIN_TOL/BRIDGE_MAX, junction-protected DP, island cull/bridge), so this
exercised A's in-progress finalization, not a frozen state.
Robust result (holds whatever A's WIP does): every shop the plan produced builds a valid
interior -- 0 throws/carves/path-fails/over-budget, worst 147 draws; 3 gig venues (district
placement holds on the real graph); plan deterministic; lot dims unchanged (7.5-8.5 x 14 ->
interiors dim-identical to R18, road-agnostic). Shop count came out 19 here, but that reflects
A's in-flight cull/bridge logic (expected per Fable's fragmentation ruling), NOT a defect --
not filed as a finding; interiors build clean whichever count A pins.
Final C spot-confirm pending A's committed finalization + golden pin (C confirms after A).
Docs-only.
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Real towns can have FEW shops but a HUGE road graph (real Katoomba: 20 shops / 799 edges / 5 km), so the
shop-count-only heuristic left them on small-town streaming and blew the tri budget (280k > the 200k gate).
Extend the trigger to the graph: BIG_CITY = shops>120 || edges>200. B proved the effect; landed EARLY so
D/B's post-fix re-measures see it (per the R19 order).
Verified: katoomba_real 799 edges -> BIG_CITY -> 61 draws / ~12k tris (was 280k), 0 errors.
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Audited the citizen sim on real irregular street topology. E landed katoomba_real's
real roads (484 ways -> 872 nodes/799 edges) mid-round, so this is measured on the
real Katoomba graph plus a crafted irregular proxy.
VERDICT: the CityPlan graph contract IS the contract — zero sim changes. On real
Katoomba (7.2deg junctions, 1303m edge, 105 components): 0 NaN over 1,095,500 samples,
peds footpath-perfect (0 off-footpath), loiter/bench-sit/patronage all fire, chunk
streaming works over non-grid, determinism byte-identical (1167 identity sigs, R14
chunk-local law holds). No source touched.
FILED FOR A: katoomba_real's graph is 105 components — main holds 58% of street-metres
+ 18/20 shops, but 42% of street-metres + 2 shops strand (~10% of near-main crowd
presence lands on tiny fragments). Primary cause is expected: median fragment 71.5m
from main = peripheral/bbox-clipped roads. Secondary (corroborated with Lane B on A's
selfcheck fixture): per-way Douglas-Peucker drops collinear junction points + no
mid-edge split — bites only the 9/85 fragments <10m from main. Reconciles with B:
B verified 126 intersections form (main component); I add the global measurement
(still 105 components). A fidelity knob (charter risk #4), not a blocker; sim degrades
gracefully (no crash). A owns the connect-tolerance decision.
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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.
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Newtown/Fremantle/Bendigo/Castlemaine now schema v2 with roads[] (1086/622/1552/397 real streets),
same fidelity cut (street tier only). Data-only: only katoomba gates the round; A hardens against these.
build_towns.py: added Overpass retry/backoff (public API 504s under load — hit one mid-run).
The poster-clearance finding is SYSTEMATIC: it reproduces on all 5 real-road towns, every seed (23
checks, -0.9 to -4.7m), confirming it's plan-level poster placement (A's pickVenues/POSTER_CLEAR), not
town data. Scoping holds: only the real/* v2 path fails; synthetic + fixtures + classic + default boots
stay green. A's one fix generalizes to all five. ODbL: raw roads committed, SOURCES.md current.
-> Lane A: all 5 towns' roads live; the systematic poster finding is yours to resolve + re-pin goldens.
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Extend build_towns.py: bounded way[highway](bbox) out geom per town -> raw cached in-repo -> roads[]
in A's v2 contract ({id,kind,pts:[[lat,lon]]}, kind=raw OSM highway class). katoomba_real is now
schema v2 with 484 real streets (Bathurst Rd, Cliff Drive, ...). Fidelity cut (charter risk #4, flagged
to A): fetch every ROAD_KIND tier -> raw; EMIT the town street tier only, excluding service/track/
footway/path/steps/cycleway (1461 of 2506 Katoomba ways = bushwalking tracks/sidewalks/stairs/driveways).
A's lift builds a real town from it (verified): 484 streets -> 872 nodes/799 edges (main 232 side 531
arcade 36) -> 12 blocks, 20 lots, 3 venues (pub/band_room/rsl), 12 gigs. pickVenues lands venues on the
real graph (ledger #2 met).
FINDING for A (alpha failure-list, charter risk #3): on the real graph, spine posters overhang crossing
carriageways -- selfcheck kerb-clearance fails on 4 seeds (-1.6 to -2.5m; e.g. seed 20261990 poster 50 vs
edge 58 = -2.42m). Same class as A's R15/R16 corner-poster fix, now on real cross-street geometry. Owner:
A (pickVenues/POSTER_CLEAR on the real graph, the 'A again' harden step) -- my roads data is VALID (cache
validates; failures are plan-level poster placement). Golden settles after A's fix (pre-fix 0x6014a8e6).
ODbL: raw roads committed, SOURCES.md updated.
-> Lane A: katoomba roads live; harden the lift + resolve the poster finding + re-pin the golden.
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Entered every katoomba_real shop the way the shell does (registerTownCache ->
generatePlanFor osm, gigs on = default boot -> buildInterior per shop, lot dims
from plan.lots). All 20 doors PASS: 0 throws / 0 carves / 0 path-fails / 0
over-budget, worst 153 draws (<=350); 7 types incl. the 3 gig venues (pub/rsl/
band_room) all built valid.
Degenerate-lot stress (preempts A's real-road re-seating): 32 extreme-lot x type
combos (incl. 0x0, 1x1, thin slivers) -> 0 throws/carves/path-fails; every room
floors at >=4x4 m. The interior contract absorbs any real frontage.
Honest caveat: current katoomba_real.json is schema v1 (roads:none) -> marched
fallback (E's roads cache not committed yet). Interiors are road-agnostic (lot dims
+ type + seed only), so the conclusion holds once roads seat shops on real edges;
one-line re-run if lot dims shift. Interior lane: 0 failures for the alpha list.
Docs-only (verification of shipped behaviour).
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The epoch headline (ledger #2). A v2 cache's roads[] now builds the CityPlan street graph FROM real
OSM geometry instead of marching shops onto synthetic avenues. SAME CityPlan schema out — B/C/D/F consume
it unchanged by contract. roads absent ⇒ the v1 marched fallback, so classic/gig/osm goldens are FROZEN.
plan_osm.buildRealRoads: project ways+shops to the local metre frame → simplify each way (Douglas-Peucker
eps~6m, the fidelity knob) → snap coincident points (<=3m) to shared nodes = real intersections →
straight-segment edges → classify main by OSM highway class + shop density → seat each shop on its NEAREST
real edge (real order, real side), marched with regularised spacing + a deterministic overlap-resolve pass.
Fidelity (charter risk #4): real edge/order/side + regularised spacing — NOT pixel positions (real shops
overlap; the no-overlap invariant is load-bearing). Alpha failure list in LANE_A_NOTES §R18: overflow drop
on short edges; intersections = shared-coordinates only (a D sim-graph risk); per-edge frontage-strip
blocks not planar faces (a B ground-render item); crowded-intersection overlap-resolve.
Proven: a committed synthetic irregular graph (main + two cross streets + a real intersection + an acute
angle + a dead-end lane + a curve) passes the FULL structuralSuite + gig district + byte-identical
determinism; mutation-tested non-vacuous (flip the facade facing → 'faces its frontEdge' fails). Robust on
messy inputs (single road, coincident dups, disconnected ways, all-roads-too-short → marched). All osm
goldens frozen; E's 4 trailing caches pinned on v1; katoomba_real UNPINNED (its real-roads golden pins when
E lands roads — the A->E->A finalization). selfcheck ALL GREEN 16810/16810; scaffold + consistency GREEN.
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The half-day handshake so E's build_towns.py can fetch road geometry (ledger #1). Optional roads[]
on the town cache carries real OSM way geometry; plan_osm's graph lift (consuming it) follows in the
next commit. v1 caches (roads absent) stay valid — the marched fallback — so nothing shipped regresses.
- validateTownCache accepts schema procity-town-cache/1 AND /2; when roads[] is present each road must be
{ kind:string, pts:[[lat,lon],…] } with >=2 finite points (else rejected); <2 pts dropped, unmapped
highway kind → 'side' (warnings). ROAD_KIND maps OSM highway=* → CityPlan edge kind (main/side/lane/arcade).
- Full v2 contract in web/assets/towns/README.md (the doc E builds to): shape, road validity, the kind map,
the fidelity knob (charter risk #4), and the bbox-bound-the-roads rule.
- E's 5 existing v1 caches re-validate clean; selfcheck ALL GREEN.
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F wired the last mile of the real-map scout and gated the whole matrix.
- index.js barrel re-exports registerTownCache/validateTownCache; the shell fetches + registers
assets/towns/<key>.json before generatePlanFor when the town isn't a checked-in fixture — so
?plansrc=osm&town=bendigo_real boots a REAL AU town in the engine (the gap: E's caches were on disk +
in the node selfcheck, but the shell never loaded them → silent Melbourne fallback). Fail-soft
(404 / invalid / ?noassets -> fixture fallback); opt-in, never on the default or ?classic path.
- tools/qa/town_matrix.py (opt-in qa.sh --matrix): boot / determinism / budget / district / ?noassets
across 10 towns (2 synthetic hero seeds + 3 osm fixtures + E's 5 real AU caches). ALL 5x10 GREEN —
Castlemaine at the 6-shop floor still lands a 3-venue district. The existing CityPlan contract eats real
Australian geography: the evidence John charters v4 = THE REAL MAP on.
- docs: LANE_F_NOTES §17 (the town x gate table), README real-town row, F-progress R17.
qa.sh --strict --soak GREEN 7/7. Verified: ?plansrc=osm&town=bendigo_real -> Bendigo, 9 shops, 3 venues, 0 errors.
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Street peds occasionally sit during a window-shop loiter (verandah/footpath
edge). makeActor gains an opt-in setSitting with a SCALE-AWARE re-plant (the
R16 spawnRig re-plant was scale-naive; the sim scales these rigs per-citizen),
played only on sit so walkers/placeholders/?classic are byte-identical. Seeded
via a dedicated benchsit rng stream (no shift to turn/loit/patron; identity
signature unchanged). Classic inert at the source (roll gated on sitClip).
In-shell (default, seed 20261990): head bone 1.466->1.070, bone span
1.667->1.299 (in seated gate [0.9,1.5]), feet re-plant to y=0 and hold through
sit-idle, stand-up restores inner.y 0.929 byte-for-byte, procitySeated tagged,
innerRotY:pi throughout. 9 distinct peds sat naturally per soak. Classic:
fleetSitClip:false, everSat:0. Plan golden 0x3fa36874 unchanged. Draws 35/tris 6k.
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Ledger #4 (warm-up): publish.py --verify no longer false-flags non-procity_ published assets
(sit.glb, vintage-cash-register). It compares the _published.json name record against the depot's
full file list (fetch_depot_files) instead of a procity_ prefix filter; only OUR namespace flags as
unrecorded. --verify now: all 39 recorded assets live.
Ledger #6 (the scout): new pipeline/build_towns.py ports thriftgod build_city()'s Overpass route to
per-town caches in A's procity-town-cache/1 contract. 5 real compact AU towns under web/assets/towns/
(katoomba/newtown/fremantle/bendigo/castlemaine, 6-21 shops, spans <2.4km): bounded Overpass query ->
raw cached in-repo (re-runs never re-fetch) -> dedupe/suburb-fill/parody (trademarked chains only;
indie shops keep real OSM names)/type-map. Deterministic (byte-identical re-run, no RNG). ODbL:
SOURCES.md licence table + license/attribution on every cache. All 5 boot through the full
structural+gig suites (selfcheck 16596/16596 green; synthetic golden 0x3fa36874 unmoved). Overpass
fetch John-authorized (Standing #2).
-> Lane A: caches live under web/assets/towns/; pin the per-town goldens selfcheck printed (katoomba
0x61760542 newtown 0x95978b45 fremantle 0xee9fd09a bendigo 0x5e3e76a6 castlemaine 0xf1a628a1) +
feed through plan_osm. E->A handshake.
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The R16 seated drummer sat bolt-upright (the sit clip can't carry a pelvic tilt
— Hips.quaternion is unusable on these rigs). Fix: a small constant forward torso
lean applied POST-MIX. spawnRig({seated}) caches the mid-spine bone (seatBone);
seatedLean(spine) rotates it forward ~0.34 rad each frame after the mixer resets
it (constant offset, not accumulation); band.js calls it for m.seated members.
The drummer leans into the kit — head 0.28m forward of the hips, reads as a real
drummer from the side.
Byte-identical (my signature): standing rigs get no seatBone (found only in the
seated block) and seatedLean runs for seated figs only. Verified with the lean
live — walkers 188/188 face travel, keeper standing rig (stature 1.718,
hasSeatBone:false, innerRotY pi). No existing consumer moves.
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The real-map scout (ledger #6), A's half. Scope fence held: NO new plan features, NO golden moved
(classic 0x3fa36874, gig 0xb1d48ea1, all three osm fixtures frozen). The scout proves the EXISTING
?plansrc=osm contract eats real geography.
- The town-cache contract (published FIRST — E builds build_towns.py to it). plan_osm.js gains
validateTownCache() (authoritative {ok,errors,warnings}), registerTownCache(), a generatePlanOSM(..,
{cache}) seam, and TOWN_CACHE_SCHEMA/MIN_TOWN_SHOPS(6)/MAX_TOWN_SPAN_M(5km). Shape: {schema,key,town,
source,license,attribution,center{lat,lon},shops[{id,name,type,lat,lon,suburb?}]}. Home declared:
web/assets/towns/<key>.json (+ README.md full spec). Documented in CITY_SPEC v3.2 + LANE_A_NOTES R17.
- plan_osm hardened: blank name -> registry label; the validator gates finite center/coords + a >=6-shop
floor and warns on unknown-type(->opshop)/dup-id/span>5km. Proven vs thriftgod's real 2,828-shop
city_source.json: boots a valid plan, 0 bad coords, 0 'undefined' names.
- selfcheck: a committed synthetic-adversarial contract suite (valid-messy caches boot + pass structural/
gig; invalid reject; wide-spread warns; registry seam) + an auto-loader for web/assets/towns/*.json
(validate -> suites -> pin per-town golden), empty and green until E lands caches. ALL GREEN 15277/15277.
- v4 charter risk list (LANE_A_NOTES R17): the MEGA-STRIP (unbounded bbox -> 11.6 km strip; town selection
is E's real lever, warned >5km); sparse compact towns (2 km inner-Canberra held 6 shops); osm facades
clear (rows 54 m apart) so R16's bias is a no-op on real towns.
E->A handshake: E drops a cache in web/assets/towns/, the selfcheck prints its golden, I pin it.
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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).
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D's R16 wiring (ab7a8d0) reads stage.backline[0] with an immediate primitive ampPrim()
fallback + GLB upgrade. Verified fresh (seed 20261990), 3 archetypes x 2 modes:
- amp plants at backline[0] exactly (offset 0.00); 1 amp per stage (double-amp gone).
- no interpenetration: amp-to-nearest-band AABB edge gaps all positive — pub 0.40/0.44,
band_room 0.27/0.29, rsl 0.54/0.57 m (GLB/primitive). Rendered band_room confirms the read.
On-call (for A/E real-map scout): C interior type fallback eats real OSM shop types — 18 real
shop= values (+ ''/null/undefined/aliases) all build 0 throws, all pathOK, resolve to opshop.
No C code change (docs-only; verification of shipped behaviour).
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The closing half of F's bookend. All gates green on the flipped tree (qa.sh --strict --soak: classic
regression + default-boot gate + smokes + no-giants incl. the seated drummer + the full-week soak).
- tour_shots.py -> docs/shots/release_v3_1/: the money shots on the DEFAULT boot (no per-shot flag juggling
now the flip covers it) + a ?classic=1 before/after ("the town before v3"). 7 shots, settled, 0 page errors.
- week_soak.py: re-pointed to the default boot; the leak check now treats an at/below-baseline OR non-climbing
trail as leak-free (a decreasing tex trail is GC/atlas-settle, not a leak — it was false-failing at warn-level).
- docs: README v3.1 flags table (defaults on + ?classic=1), CITY_SPEC v3.1 amendment (the rewritten prime
law + classic covenant, A's deferred edit), LANE_F_NOTES §16, F-progress R16.
Numbers (seed 20261990): default @ venue block 124 draws / 57k tris (<=300/200k); ?classic 161 draws / 24k
tris (the v2 baseline); seated drummer 1.32 m stature; week soak 42 cycles leak-free (net +0/-6).
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The town shows its best by default. gigs / weather / winmap / tram flip ON (each keeps a ?flag=0 opt-out;
?classic=1 forces the exact v2 boot). The prime-law covenant MOVED from "flags off" to "?classic=1" —
byte-identical forever (synthetic fingerprint 0x3fa36874). The default boot is now the full experience,
deterministic to the gig golden 0xb1d48ea1 (A's R16 corner-poster re-pin).
- index.html: CLASSIC + flagOn(); gigs/weather/tram default-on; loadPedFleet({sit:!CLASSIC}) for the seated
drummer (?classic keeps the zero-fetch-delta covenant); a window.PROCITY.flags intent surface for the gates
- buildings.js: winmap default-on + classic-aware (the one cross-lane flip line the flag placement requires)
- flags_check.py: flags_off_regression -> classic_regression (?classic=1 byte-identical); a new default_boot_gate
(all four flags on, gig layer present, gig golden, budget); every gig smoke re-pointed at the DEFAULT boot
- seated-stature gate (ledger #3, published for D): interior_scale_check.py + flags_check.py accept
fig.userData.procitySeated at stature [0.9,1.5] m (the drummer); standing figs stay [1.4,2.0]
- qa.sh flags-harness gate name updated (classic regression + default-boot gate)
Verified: ?classic byte-identical (0x3fa36874, gig layer absent); default boot = the full town (14 gigs, 15
posters, tram, gig golden green, 112 draws @ the venue block); the seated drummer passes at 1.32 m stature;
district (3 venues / 3 genres), continuity, and cover all green on the default boot.
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Ledger #2 — drummer sits. E's sit.glb is wired into the shared rig stack:
- FINDING: Fable's prescribed _rotWithHips (keep Hips.quaternion) MANGLES the
pose in-shell (head folds to hip height / laid flat) — the fleet rigs' bind
Hips orientation is incompatible with the Mixamo clip's, exactly what _rotOnly
documents. So the sit clip rides _rotOnly (drops Hips.quaternion) like every
clip; _rotWithHips removed. The seated read comes from the leg bends + a new
spawnRig({seated}) foot-replant (opt-in; standing spawns skip it).
- Drummer uses fleet.sitClip when present (retires SEAT_DROP), tags
fig.userData.procitySeated=true (F's gate). Stature ~1.1-1.3m in [0.9,1.5];
reads seated from the crowd POV (kit hides the legs). Graceful SEAT_DROP
fallback when sitClip absent (?noassets / before F wires {sit}).
- BYTE-IDENTICAL proof (load-bearing): with sitClip null AND loaded, keepers are
standing rigs (stature 1.718, innerRotY pi, replanted:false) and walkers 188/188
face travel. Parallel/opt-in path; _rotOnly + makeActor untouched.
- F seam: loadPedFleet(base, {sit}) — pass sit:<gig active> (false under
?classic → no sit.glb fetch, classic covenant intact). Default off, graceful.
Ledger #5 — backline unification. _addBackline plants E's guitar_amp at C's
stage.backline[0] (== D's R15 pose, 0.75m bass clearance) instead of a hardcoded
pose. C dropped its primitive ampStacks, so D owns the backline: placeholder-
persists (primitive amp → GLB swap) with the primitive as the ?noassets fallback.
Verified: GLB swaps, primitive under noassets, no crash, 0 fetch.
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