selfcheck ALL GREEN 156,352/156,352; consistency green. 51 goldens re-pinned in this one commit per the
amendment law. scaffold_check is RED and CANNOT be green from here — the covenant hashes are duplicated in
LANE F's files; exact values handed to F in LANE_A_NOTES §R27w5 (I don't edit other lanes' files).
THE RULING'S PREMISE WAS WRONG, AND THE WRONG HALF WAS LOAD-BEARING.
Wave 5 says "synthetic follows B's canon so every golden has been green over a wrong product since R18".
Half right. Synthetic does NOT follow B's canon -- it is broken identically, and so is the marched path,
and so are all three checked-in fixtures. It is not "every real town since R18". It is EVERY TOWN, EVERY
PATH, SINCE v1. The ruling told me to measure the marched path rather than assume it was clean "because
that's how this one survived nine rounds" -- so I measured all three, and the same discipline caught the
premise itself.
MEASURED FIRST, IN B'S CANON (+Z = the facade), BEFORE TOUCHING ANYTHING:
synthetic seed 20261990 0 toward / 681 away (dot = -1.0000, exactly anti-parallel)
marched katoomba/fremantle/godverse, fixtures melbourne/katoomba/silverton 0 toward, all away
real-roads katoomba 0/72 <- B's number, reproduced
637 of 681 synthetic lots had their facade pointing at NO STREET AT ALL (44 hit a different street by
corner coincidence). Then I confirmed it with my own eyes rather than trust the arithmetic: booted
?classic=1, stood on the synthetic main street at lot 0 -> three blank grey boxes. Walked BEHIND them into
the block -> NUMBAT PLAYTHINGS, sign/door/windows/awning, facing the dirt. The classic covenant town has
been a row of back walls since v1.
After the fix, same camera, same seed, same ?classic=1: CROWN TOYS & GAMES · MARBLES & KITES · NUMBAT
PLAYTHINGS -- a strip of shopfronts facing the road.
FOUR SITES, ONE SIGN, AND EVERY ONE OF THEM SAID SO IN ITS OWN COMMENT:
plan.js:122 synthetic strip "facade faces back down the outward normal, to the street" <- it didn't
plan.js:244 market row "the facade then faces -(outward) = +x" <- it didn't
plan_osm:330 marched avenue "facade faces +z (north) to the avenue" <- due south
plan_osm:443 real roads B's proven one-liner (B measured it, then reverted it -- A's file)
All four were atan2(outward) where the intent was atan2(-outward). The code never did what its comment
said, and CITY_SPEC:71 blessed the result by writing the SIM convention into the LOTS contract. Nobody was
wrong; the spec was. After: synthetic 681/681, marched + fixtures 100%, real-roads katoomba 72/72.
THE COVENANT MOVED -- JOHN RULED IT, I DIDN'T.
Fixing synthetic necessarily moves 0x3fa36874, frozen "forever" since R16. That is not Lane A's call, so I
stopped and asked with the evidence. John's ruling: AMEND THE COVENANT, FIX ALL PATHS -- the covenant is
anti-drift machinery, not a defect preservative. 51 pins in this commit:
classic/synthetic 0x3fa36874 -> 0x5f76e76
gig 0xb1d48ea1 -> 0xec7a2d39
fixtures melbourne 0x9c7e76b3 · katoomba 0xf3aafec8 · silverton 0x6d74c4
23 real towns base + gig (46)
Verified byte-identical across two fresh processes; pack-xor 0xa5058322. CITY_SPEC records the amendment as
a ONE-TIME, ruling-gated precedent -- from this hash forward the law reads as it always did.
A SECOND BUG THE FIX EXPOSED (fixed here, counted). buildRealRoads seated blocks at KERB = 4 m from the
CENTRELINE, but a `main` carriageway is 10 m wide -- its kerb is at 5 m. EVERY MAIN-STREET BUILDING HAS
STOOD 1 m INSIDE THE ROAD SINCE R18. The footprint never moved; only which face is the front -- so it was
invisible until the shopfront turned around and its poster landed in the traffic lane (-1.07 m clearance,
6 real failures). Blocks now seat behind the kerb per A's own published corridor law (roadWidth/2 +
FOOTPATH). Pack drops 6.4% -> 6.6%, counted, not hidden.
THE CROSS-CONVENTION GATE -- built to F's lesson, not to a spec line. F proved that measuring lots against
CITY_SPEC:71's own convention is SELF-AGREEMENT: 72/72 "facing" over a town of blank walls. So this gate
restates nothing. It replicates LANE B'S OWN maths from buildings.js (toWorld(lot, 0, y, d/2 + 0.02)) and
asks a physical question neither spec line can fudge: does the quad the RENDERER actually draws land nearer
the street than the lot centre? It fires if A's ry sign drifts OR if B's zf sign drifts. It would have
caught this on day one of v1.
CITY_SPEC amendments: the lots contract now states facade/door/frontage = local +Z; the SIM/rig convention
is documented separately as the different thing it is, with the explicit rule -- never assert a lot's
facing against a spec line, assert it against the geometry the renderer draws.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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