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The town is inhabited: 23 towns finally differ, 181 back yards have a Hills Hoist with washing on it, a magpie owns one street for six weeks of the year, and six point sources put a life off-screen. MEASURED, walked, not bookmarked — two port-isolated no-store servers (:8472 = `git archive HEAD`, :8471 = treatment, assets symlinked so E's mid-round wave is identical on both sides), 102 8-metre spine steps at yaw 0, each frame fully streamed, through the shell's own composer: worst draws 224 -> 225 (+1) worst tris 89,502 -> 93,298 (+3,796 of ~75k spare) sum draws over 102 frames 16,676 -> 16,663 (-13) The citizen sim and the tram are hidden identically on both sides, and that IS the measurement: with them live the same step read control 346 vs treatment 232, because peds spawn on wall-clock time. `?yards=0` reproduces HEAD exactly (224 / 89,502 / 16,676). Isolated at a fixed pose: washing +1 draw / +512 tris, magpie +1 draw / +182 tris, every yard box prop +0 draws. §1.2 THE CHARACTER VECTOR — +0 draws, +0 tris, classic byte-identical BY CONSTRUCTION. `townCharacter(null)` returns the frozen v1 literals and a null tint keeps the SAME material cache key, so classic gets the same object, not a copy of it: default-boot ground hashes identical to HEAD mesh-for-mesh, `?classic=1` hashes unmoved from R37. There is no `if (classic)` in the ground path. The sky feeds the BASE skyName, never `setSky` (a one-way latch that would have killed R32's dawn dome on all 23 towns). The vacuous arm is per-town: `newtown_godverse` / `redhill_godverse` carry `state: ''`, so a per-corpus arm would have dropped exactly those two silently. 21 distinct palettes across 23 towns. `gravel` and `reddust` were not unwired but UNWIREABLE — their `use` values named no slot ground.js had; making the slot addressable fixed it at the root, and both are selected now. E's three new grounds landed mid-round and the upgrade was a name change in one table, which is what procedural-first is for. §1.4 BACKYARD AUSTRALIA — inside boxMats, +0 draws. Houses inset off their boundaries so there is a yard; 36 `yard` lots that had rendered as blank shopfront sheds since v1 are now fenced blocks with a hoist, a shed and often a tank. Collision byte-identical (the lot rect is where the fence stands). THE WASHING SHIPS, and I wrote the inverted weight rather than dropping it. The shipped top-weighted mode moves a hem 0.10 cm calm / 0.67 cm gusty; `pegged` gives 4.5 cm / 31 cm — ~52x, and at the hem instead of the pegs. The `canopy` string is byte-for-byte unchanged, so the gum-tree covenant argument is untouched. It is ONE TOWN-WIDE InstancedMesh (1 draw at any N, cap 256, proximity-first off the R37 chunk seam) rather than per-chunk, which would have been +1 x 31 live chunks = 4x the whole margin. Zero on every real town (no hoists ⇒ no mesh) and zero at night. §1.3 THE MAGPIE — +1 draw on screen, exactly 0 otherwise; 182 tris of 900. Territory scales with the road graph: 6 on the 6.78 km synthetic town, 157 on bendigo's 188.6 km / 2,593 edges, nearest 120 m from spawn. The latch sets, the day roll clears it, localStorage gains no key and the save never mentions it. `swoopPos()` is exported and pure. The hat stays cut. MY OWN SEASON MECHANISM WAS VACUOUS AND THE SWEEP CAUGHT IT: keyed on citySeed alone it produced a CONSTANT, because the town key is deliberately off the plan — 24 of 24 towns were 214 days from swooping season, and it would have gated green because `?magpie=1` forces it. Re-keyed on (citySeed, townKey): `newtown_real` is in season on arrival on the default seed, marrickville is 8 days out, and 12.9% of 1,000 seeds put the synthetic default in season against a design ratio of 11.5%. §1.1 THE AUDIO LAYER — six new mixer layers, zero draws, zero tris, seeded anchors, distance falloff, AND A StereoPannerNode PER LAYER, so direction is real (measured spread -0.71..+0.85) instead of a limitation written into the notes. Day-of-week derived locally. All six anchored on the default boot; 3 of 6 report `no-anchor` on real towns rather than being faked onto shopfronts. The falsifiability control — one manifest key renamed away, served from a third port — makes that source report `no-entry`, 0 plays, never `audible`, with the other five unchanged and zero console errors. TWO DEFECTS MY OWN GREEN NUMBERS COULD NOT SEE, both caught by a screenshot: the washing shipped at 256 instances / +1 draw / cap respected and was INVISIBLE behind its own back fence (per-instance peg height, and a fence taller than the hoist), and the magpie perched on THIN AIR over the road. R37's lesson relearned at full price. Fence 1.60 / hoist 2.15 measured against the object; territories now snap to furniture.js's own streetlight rule. LANE E'S PROPS, ADJUDICATED: hoist + aerial permanently primitive (E's spike killed them, and primitive is also the +0-draw mechanism). `paling_fence` at 1,121 tris x 905 runs = 1.01M triangles — no. The `magpie` GLB is HELD FOR THE TINT: it reads as a crow, and a magpie seen for 1.2 s in peripheral vision IS its white bar. My 182-tri bird already carries it, at a fifth of the triangles and no fetch. furniture.js's "novelty_record is 26.5k tris" was stale by six epochs — corrected to 8,000. Zero fetch delta: `?noassets=1` fetches the same 23 assets, same list, on HEAD and on R38. 0 console errors on 10 boots (default, classic, yards=0, washing=0&magpie=0&ambient=0, noassets, magpie=1, darwin, hobart, bendigo, the patched-manifest control) beyond the known PointerLock ones. Shots: docs/shots/laneB_r38/. Detail + every number: LANE_B_NOTES §38. |
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| .. | ||
| before | ||
| laneA | ||
| laneB | ||
| laneB_r4 | ||
| laneB_r37_kerb | ||
| laneB_r38 | ||
| laneC | ||
| laneD | ||
| laneE | ||
| laneF | ||
| references | ||
| release_v3 | ||
| release_v3_1 | ||
| release_v4 | ||
| release_v5 | ||
| v1_tour | ||
| v2_tour | ||
| v4_alpha | ||
| v4_beta | ||
| v7_alpha | ||
| v7_beta | ||
| v7_tour | ||
| contact.html | ||
| README.md | ||
| v2_contact.html | ||
docs/shots — visual regression + devlog reference tree
Owned by Lane F (each lane also drops its own acceptance screenshots here).
docs/shots/
laneA/ … laneE/ … per-lane acceptance screenshots (each lane owns its dir)
v1_tour/ … F: the v1 beauty shots (tools/shots.py) — frozen devlog set
v2_tour/ … F: the v2 tour (tools/v2_tour.py) — the CURRENT canonical set (see below)
before/ … F: last known-good capture, for side-by-side regression
references/ … real-world reference photos named per shot
v2_contact.html … generated contact sheet for the v2 tour
v2 tour — stable filenames (do not rename; the v3 site links these)
cd web && python3 -m http.server 8130 then tools/.venv/bin/python tools/v2_tour.py
→ 1280×720 PNGs in v2_tour/ + docs/shots/v2_contact.html.
| file | what it documents |
|---|---|
street_noon.png |
main strip at midday |
crossroads_busy.png |
busiest intersection, peds about |
shopfront_detail.png |
verandah + sign + window up close |
patronage_door.png |
streamed peds at an open shop's door (Lane D patronage) |
rain_verandah.png |
rain outside a lit ?winmap video-shop window |
rain_street.png |
wet strip, rain down the street |
tram_stop.png |
the v2 tram paused at a shelter (?tram=1) |
night_crowd.png |
VIDEO REGAL glowing amid CLOSED neighbours at night — the §3.5 hours story (clean-night boot). NB: no visible street crowd — see the note below. |
browsers.png |
an occupied shop's interior life — a browser at the rack + the keeper at the counter, both human-sized (R10 giant-rig fix). figures human-sized vs door/fittings: yes. |
dig_real.png |
riffling a real-cover record bin (?dig=1&stock=real) |
katoomba_main.png |
plan-agnostic main strip (?plansrc=osm&town=katoomba) |
Note on night_crowd (Lane F, R10)
Re-framed to the tighter, readable "one lit shop in a closed town" composition. It does not show a
standing street crowd, and that is not a framing bug: Lane D's night patronage parks ducked-in patrons
hidden inside the shop (they become the interior browsers seen in browsers.png), and seed 20261990's
video shop sits on a low-traffic corner, so none gather visibly outside (tested: 0 patronage / 0 visible
at night). The town's night life is the interior presence + the neon-vs-CLOSED mood. A visible outdoor
night queue would need a new Lane-D mechanic (loiter-outside-the-openLate-shop) — parked for v3. The
~20 fps in night captures is a headless-chromium software-GL artifact (the scene is light, ~128
draws / 65k tris); on real hardware the night scene is not a perf concern.
Regression workflow
Before a risky change, snapshot the good state into before/, then re-run v2_tour.py and eyeball
v2_contact.html. Process rule (R10): any shot containing a humanoid gets an explicit
"figures human-sized relative to doors/fittings: yes" line in the progress note — actually look.