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type-two
3c059f20db [lane B+C+F] The biofilm gate: the reputation cash-out, "it helps you in level 5" made real
The deeper payoff of the flora loop. A new `biofilm` level event: cross one and combat checks
BIOME STANDING — high enough (>= need), the native flora PART the biofilm, budding a wave of phage
allies + refilling coat, then spending the goodwill; too low, it stays sealed and you run the
gauntlet raw. Emits `biofilm {opened}` so E can voice both.

- combat/index.js: biofilmGate(ev) on the level:event pump (fields need/allies/coat).
- levels/index.js: the selfcheck knows the `biofilm` type now (validates need 0..100).
- L2: one demoed at s2500 — the opening flora/akkermansia/beacon let you BANK standing, and the
  gate cashes it into a phage escort right before the hiatus + reflux finale.

The mechanism is complete; L5 also gets the fast-route/Appendix branch when that level + world
support land. Verified in-engine: high standing -> opened, 3 phages, coat 50->90; low -> sealed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 00:16:12 +10:00
type-two
71b0663b77 [lane B+C] The phage ally: tend the flora and the biome fights for you
The first ALLY, and the reputation loop that earns it — "don't shoot the biome, it helps you"
(V2_IDEAS) made mechanical.

- combat/enemies.js + balance.js: the `phage` archetype. A friendly seeker that hunts the
  nearest FOE (not the player) and rams it — a bacteriophage bursts its host after `bursts`
  hits. Fast (26 > every foe) so it catches things, fragile (hp 8) so it is spent, not a wall.
  Entities now carry a `foe` flag (foes true; flora + phage false); kill() generalised so ANY
  ally scores nothing and never combos. Fallback silhouette is a bare icosahedron = the phage's
  real icosahedral capsid. Teal (EMISSIVE.ally), distinct from cyan "don't shoot" flora.

- combat/index.js: BIOME STANDING — one run-scoped float. flora:tended raises it, flora:harmed
  drops it 25; at the symbiotic threshold the biome BUDS a phage near you (capped 3, 3s cooldown),
  spending standing. Emits `standing {value}` for a future Lane E meter.

- levels/enemies.js: ARCHETYPES += phage; catalogue `phage`.

Verified deterministically in-engine: tending flora budded a phage, which hunted a spore_pod foe
(30hp) and rammed it dead; three-colour readability holds (amber foe / teal ally / cyan friend).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-19 16:36:03 +10:00
type-two
0ac11ae040 [lane B+C+D] Microbes, friend and foe: the GLB loader, a friendly commensal, and a distinct-mesh yeast
The round-2 microbe pass, vertical slice. Cross-lane (integrator call): the point was one
thread proven end to end — art pipeline in, friend and foe out.

- core/assets.js (D): the GLB loader, finally wired. GLTFLoader was vendored but never
  imported and the manifest had 0 models, so enemies.js's `glb?.geometry` hook was dead code.
  Now every manifest model preloads (AWAITED — pools set geometry at construction, a late load
  can't retrofit an InstancedMesh) into ONE BufferGeometry normalized to a unit bounding
  sphere; get('models',n).geometry lights up the hook. Optional-asset law intact: any failure
  -> no geometry -> procedural fallback.

- combat/enemies.js + balance.js (B): two new archetypes.
    flora     — the FIRST FRIEND. Cyan (ART_BIBLE: flora reads friendly). Drifts like a
                floater but its aura HEALS (sheds coat), never harms. Shootable — and shooting
                it is the reputation trap: kill() gives no score, no combo, emits flora:harmed.
                Verified: the aura fires player.refill({coat}); a shot flora scores 0.
    spore_pod — a foe yeast cluster: the floater's drift+aura, but its OWN pool so its blobby
                GLB will not reskin the food-debris floater.
  Pool geometry now scales a GLB by the archetype radius (GLBs ship unit-normalized).

- levels/enemies.js (C): ARCHETYPES += flora, spore_pod; catalogue entries lacto_drifter
  (Lactobacillus) + yeast_pod (Candida). L2 gets a light teach beat in the calm opening — a
  friendly reef at s180, one yeast at s300, both off the racing line.

Ships playable as glowing primitives (a capsule + an icosahedron), exactly like the rest of
the round-1 roster; the Trellis/Hunyuan meshes drop in via the manifest with no code change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-19 15:13:30 +10:00
type-two
31cedb2f60 [lane A] Adopt an orphaned evidence shot: the player view, flying into black
Not my lane's file. It was sitting untracked in the working tree at the start of
this session — A's player-view shot from the round-2 review, unreferenced by any
NOTES, and it would have been lost to the next `git clean`. Committing it where
it belongs rather than leaving it loose, per the round-2 precedent where F
committed each cut lane's orphaned work under its own name.

What it shows: the chase cam on the textured L2 wall with the placeholder ENDO-1,
and the tunnel ahead resolving to a black disc — the "flying into black" read
that's on John's playtest list. A's fog/void tuning is the subject.

PNG, 1.5 MB. Ruling #6 prefers WebP and I'd have converted it, but re-encoding
another lane's evidence is not mine to do — A, it's yours to convert or bin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 23:02:22 +10:00
type-two
83c30bf344 [lane E] The instrument exists: a HUD, and a surgical team who talk to you
#ui had been an empty div since round 0 — E never ran. It has an owner now.

HUD (charter #1): coat/hull, heat, torpedo pips, speed/flow/throttle, boost,
score, combo, biome + segment name, and a progress rail with C's 10 checkpoints
ticked. Bus-only — zero imports from B, exactly as the charter asks. player:state
and combat:state arrive every frame and ARE the clock, so the HUD cannot tick
while the game isn't running.

60fps law: DOM is built once; the hot path is transform + textContent-on-change
only. Bars scale (scaleX), they never resize — a width:% write per bar per frame
is a layout pass. Torpedo pips rebuild only when ammoMax changes, not when ammo
does.

COMMS — on nobody's list. Argued for, then built. The GDD says "Star Fox arcade
flow" and there was nobody in the game but the player. Three-hander: voss
(attending, terse), park (resident, over-excited), adeyemi (immunology,
apologetic — and amber, the colour of the cells attacking you; his fault).
Deterministic round-robin per trigger key, no RNG. Priority ladder + per-key
cooldowns so the crew shuts up during a firefight.

It turned out to be more than flavour: it is the tutorialisation channel the GDD
asks for and L1 has no other vehicle for. The hazard lines teach what C's HAZARDS
registry note says the hazard IS ("ring gate. it opens on a beat — match the
beat, do not ram it"). Keys are the real HAZARDS ids, checked against
levels/enemies.js rather than guessed — all three L2 kinds get bespoke lines,
zero generic fallbacks. A level's worth of dialogue is now a data edit in LINES.

Three defects, all mine, all found by the stepped sim, none visible to the eye:
- The progress rail was dead. I read `level.length` — a field that does not
  exist. The level carries segments, not a total. It now uses the runtime
  world.length that B already divides into p.progress.
- My clock was fiction. Comms counted `+= 0.1` per timer tick and called it
  seconds; a backgrounded tab throttles setTimeout to ~1s, so lines held ~10x too
  long. It now reads performance.now().
- Every hazard warning had the LOWEST priority in the game. PRI has a key `warn`,
  but say() is called with `warn_reflux_surge`, so PRI[key] was undefined and
  fell through to the default of 1 — the surge screaming "GO. GO." could be
  talked over by park admiring a specimen. Keys now resolve exact-then-family.
  The evidence shot IS the fix: same seed, same frame, the warning now sits where
  the checkpoint line used to be.

### -> Lane B — player:state stops emitting the moment you die

player.js:103 early-returns before the emit when !st.alive. So `alive` is
unobservable (E can only ever read true — the field is currently decorative), and
E cannot use player:state as a clock, because it stops exactly when the death UI
needs to run and through boot's whole 2.0s respawn window. Comms works around it
with its own wall-clock. The death/respawn feed-drop (charter #4) will not be
able to. Ask is in NOTES; not patching your file.

### -> Lane F — two contract items

I edited boot.js (~10 lines mirroring your own dynamic-import/try-catch/
console.info fallback) because #ui needed an owner and two modules nothing
constructs aren't worth much. Ratify or move it. Second: shot_sink.py cannot
photograph Lane E — it POSTs renderer.domElement.toDataURL(), and the HUD is a
DOM overlay, so the house evidence tool renders it invisible. This shot is a
composite (canvas -> 2D canvas, then #ui via an SVG foreignObject). Offer to lift
it into pipeline/ as DBG.shotUI() stands.

qa GREEN. Evidence: docs/shots/laneE/round2_hud_aortic.webp (s=1111, seed 7, live
hazard warn + x6 chain). Dev server guts-e on 8146.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 23:01:40 +10:00
jing
a99f733452 [lane A] MODELBEAST dresses the molecules: 5 matcaps, and the canal picks space-filling
The right axis wasn't "generate or don't" — it was WHICH HALF. Geometry stays
procedural because a molecule's shape is already known exactly. **Material is
exactly a generation problem**, and it's the whole difference between a textbook
diagram and a game object. So MODELBEAST made the materials.

5 greyscale matcaps, flux_local, 69 seconds, $0.00, 68 KB total:
  mol_glass (O,N) — the big win: oxygen is a red glass marble with internal glow
  mol_matte (C)   — graphite soot; carbon reads as the scaffold it is
  mol_chrome (Co) — B12's cobalt is now a chrome bearing in a cage
  mol_molten (P)  — ATP's phosphate tail is incandescent AND pulses (uTime, free)
  mol_pearl (H)   — satin white; hydrogens stop shouting

The trick is Lane D's own law applied to spheres: author the LUMINANCE, tint
in-shader. derive_maps already greyscales every matcap, so one glass ball serves
oxygen AND nitrogen at their own CPK hues — 5 balls dress the whole periodic
table we care about. They pack into one strip atlas indexed per-vertex by aMat,
so **a molecule is still exactly 1 draw call** however many materials it's made
of (7 molecules = 7 draws, unchanged). ?matcap=0 falls back to the built-in
fake-lit path: the assets-optional law holds.

SPACE-FILLING WINS FOR PICKUPS, and the canal decided it, not me. New
`repr: 'space-filling'` draws every atom at its real van der Waals radius with no
sticks. A/B'd at real pickup size against the real L2 wall, same camera:
ball-and-stick goes spindly and dissolves; the solid blob holds its silhouette —
and it's CHEAPER (21k vs 26k tris, no bond cylinders). Recommendation to B:
space-filling in flight, ball-stick for hero/UI/collect close-ups where the
chemistry is worth reading. Evidence: round2_molecule_materials.png (3-way).

Two defects found by rendering it, both mine, both fixed:
- Tint x luminance darkens TWICE: CPK carbon is 0.4 and a matte ball averages
  0.5, so soot x soot vanished — the first pass sank glucose, caffeine and the
  cobalt into the background. Floored the matcap at 0.22, the same floor the
  fallback's key light always had.
- The molten matcap was my own bad prompt: I asked for an "incandescent white hot
  CORE" and got exactly that — a black ball with a hot spot, so phosphorus lost
  its orange. Re-rolled for the whole sphere to glow (attempt 2 of the <=2
  PIPELINE allows). Lesson for the kit, next to the organ/tissue one: a matcap is
  a LUMINANCE LOOKUP, so a dark-dominant ball makes a dark-dominant object.

Also corrected the doc's own framing — v1 said "I'm authorised to burn GPU and
I'm not going to", which was the wrong axis, not just the wrong tone.

qa GREEN; 16/16 texture provenance verified (synced the FIXED batch json up
first this time, so the box couldn't clobber it on the way back).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 21:31:24 +10:00
jing
9f42a2e9ab [lane A] Molecules as pickups: real gut chemistry, procedural, 1 draw each
PROTOTYPE + proposal, not wired into boot. Pickups are B's systems, their
economy is C's, object art is D's — this is a renderer and an argument, offered
to all three. Bench: web/dev/laneA_molecules.html · docs/MOLECULES.md

THE PITCH: the pickups already in L2 ARE molecules. C authored `nutrient`,
`mucin`, `B12` and `antacid ammo` before any of this existed — those are the real
biochemistry of a digestive tract, and glucose/cobalamin/bicarbonate are real
compounds with known shapes. We don't need to invent a pickup language; we need
to stop hiding the one the fiction handed us. GUTS is already a science game (an
eosinophil is a real white blood cell, candida a real yeast, the hiatus a real
choke point) — it just doesn't LOOK like one, because everything on screen is
tinted tissue.

THE RULE THAT MAKES IT WORK: CPK is the scanner. Everything identified is drawn
in the standard element palette (O red, N blue, P orange, metals pink);
everything else stays monochrome tissue. Against six biomes of tinted wall a CPK
molecule is the ONLY saturated foreign colour on screen — it reads as artificial,
valuable and targetable with NO HUD marker. Proof: round2_molecules_in_canal.png.
That's the ART_BIBLE's synthetic-scanner fiction paying rent, and it hands Lane E
a free HUD palette.

WHY PROCEDURAL AND NOT MODELBEAST — and I'm authorised to burn the GPU: a
molecule's shape is already known exactly. Glucose is a hexagonal ring because it
IS one. FLUX+TRELLIS gives a plausible blob in 3-8 min that a chemist clocks as
wrong and that can never be re-derived. Ball-and-stick from an atom list is exact,
rebuilds in ms, and is ONE DRAW CALL per molecule (measured: 7 molecules = 7
draws / 26.5k tris). The split is a principle: small molecules = procedural
(exact geometry known); proteins/enzymes = MODELBEAST blobs (real ones are
3000-atom blobs nobody reads — and PIPELINE says blobby organics are TRELLIS's
sweet spot); cells/creatures = MODELBEAST, D's lane, unaffected.

BUILT: water (chaff) · bicarbonate (antacid ammo — HCO3- + HCl is the real
neutralisation, it genuinely fizzes CO2) · glucose (nutrient/score) · caffeine
(overdrive — really gut-absorbed, needs no tutorial) · ATP (boost — the orange
triphosphate tail IS the charge, a pickup that's a diagram of its own mechanic) ·
capsaicin (burn hazard — long greasy tail reads wrong on sight) · B12 (rare
treasure — a cobalt in a corrin cage, the only metal vitamin; C authored it as a
pickup already). Size is a free rarity signal: `unit` mode keeps TRUE relative
sizes, so water is a speck and B12 a chandelier.

Found by rendering it, which is why the bench exists: fuseRing returns vertices
starting adjacent to B, and bonding them from A instead draws a chord across the
ring — still a valid 5-cycle so nothing errors, it just looked like a squashed
pentagon. Fixed in caffeine + ATP's adenine, adjacency documented.

Stated plainly: geometry is idealised (correct connectivity/rings/bond orders,
believable angles, authored flat) NOT crystallographic — real glucose is a chair,
not a hexagon. The B12 is a simplified corrin core. Untested above ~7 on screen;
fifty would want instancing.

qa GREEN.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 19:52:33 +10:00
jing
111ade7d12 [lane A] The swept room + the acid sea, built — and it corrected me four times
The shape read in LANE_A_NOTES was written from reading code, so I built it to
find out if it was true. Flyable: web/dev/laneA_world.html?dbg=1&assets=1&lvl=swept
Nothing here is imposed on anyone: every addition is additive and a level that
opts out behaves exactly as today. C can bin the whole proposal and lose nothing.

WHAT THE PROTOTYPE DISPROVED (my own cost estimates, all four):
- "radial resolution must scale with radius" — wrong. 64 segments is a 0.05u
  circle error at r=70. The arena needs it because it fbm-displaces; the tube's
  wave is smooth in theta. No change made.
- "cap geometry at the span ends" — a thinko. The canal is continuous; a room is
  a fat part of it. Only the fundus dome caps, and it stays an icosphere.
- cost — cheaper than feared: 9 draws / 98k tris worst-frame for a radius-70
  cathedral vs 8 / 74k for the L2 corridor. No leak over a full sweep.
- "one schema flag" — held. `segments[].mode: "open"` is the entire ask.

THE TWO REAL COSTS, NEITHER PREDICTED:
1. D's `tile[0]` is a COUNT, not a density — only a texel size if radius never
   changes. Measured 6.1:1 smear at r=70. The wall now derives the count from
   each ring's own arc length (aRadius attr + uThetaSpan); D's authored numbers
   keep their exact meaning at their reference radius, no re-authoring. That fix
   then laid a seam down the canal (a fractional count can't wrap) -> rounded to
   an integer, seam gone. Not a no-op on corridors: L2's hiatus takes 3 repeats
   where it took 4, which is the texel size correctly holding still as the pipe
   narrows. Eyeballed.
2. MY OWN PINCH GUARD WAS WRONG and would have blocked C. The fixture scored
   1.30 and "failed" the >1.5 law; it was never bent. stats() divided the
   tightest turn ANYWHERE by the widest radius ANYWHERE — 996 units apart, a
   bend in the radius-13 pylorus against the radius of the sea. Locally its
   worst point is 6.4. pinchRatio is now min over s of turnRadius(s)/radius(s).
   Provably one-directional (global <= local by construction) so nothing that
   passed can fail; real levels GAINED headroom: L2 3.32->4.16, L3 1.91->6.99,
   L1 2.11->6.06. This mattered — the guard is what backs the round-1 promise
   that C never has to think about curvature.

THE ACID SEA (world/acid.js, `level.acid {from,to,height,biome}`):
Flat emissive #c8ff3a, level and NOT tube-following — that's the mechanic. The
best find of the session: `height` is ONE NUMBER that tunes the level. Measured:
-18 -> 0% of the sea floor is dry shallow, -55 -> 14%, -62 -> 48%. So C's "position
IS the resource" falls out of the radius wobble they already author — the mucus
shallows are just "where the wall rises above the waterline", nothing to place —
and rising acid literally drowns them: free escalation, same scalar their event
pump drives. Also disproved my own claim: the centreline stays level (+/-1u over
700u), so shallows come from radius wobble, NOT the canal's bends. C must author
vertical bends deliberately if they want depth by anatomy.

Stated plainly, not papered over: the waterline is prototype quality (the plane
meets faceted rings and the shoreline steps). Acid does not drain the coat —
depthAt(pos) is the hook and the cost is Lane B's call. Nothing drives height but
DBG until C's events do.

qa GREEN incl. the new provenance gate; spline selfcheck green; L2 corridor
re-eyeballed for regression. Rulings requested from F in NOTES §-> Lane F.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 18:04:16 +10:00
jing
3a6dbc30a3 [lane A] Complete the biome texture set (oral + colon) + a provenance gate
Generated on MODELBEAST flux_local, on-device, $0.00. Lane D's pipeline used
unchanged; **D owns these — ratify, retune or bin them.**

Why A did D's job: the six-biome tint contact sheet could only judge 3 of 6
biomes for real (oral/large_intestine/appendix had no pack and fell back to
procedural), and you cannot ratify a tint against a stand-in. All six are now
textured — the set ART_BIBLE §Biome palettes promises.

- wall_oral_a/b, wall_colon_a/b + normals. Seams 6.35/9.30/14.06/6.37 -> 1.01/
  1.08/0.74/1.36 (D's "indistinguishable" band; the shipped pack's weakest is
  2.39). Means normalised to ~0.50 by D's derive_maps, untouched.
- appendix wears the colon pack at its own gold tint (TEXTURE_SHARE in
  world/index.js) — anatomically it IS colon tissue, and it's ART_BIBLE's
  "one texture, two biomes" law for zero bytes. Distinct from the temporary
  slug map; keep it when that dies.
- oral_a took three subjects. v1 named an ORGAN ("tongue") and FLUX drew the
  organ's silhouette — D's "one urchin of villi" in a field's clothing. v2 named
  the tissue but papillae are 3D projections, so perspective gave it a vanishing
  point that tiles into starbursts. v3 asks for squamous cell pavement: flat by
  construction. Rule for the kit: prompt the SURFACE, not the FEATURE.
  Evidence: docs/shots/laneA/round2_oral_prompt_evolution.png

PROVENANCE DEFECT FOUND AND FIXED (-> Lane D):
batch_textures.json recorded, for 4 of 6 walls, the prompt from the framing
experiment D tried and rejected — not the prompt that made the shipped pack.
record() only runs on generation, so reverting a prompt while keeping its image
(exactly what D correctly did: "four winners kept untouched rather than churned")
drifts the record silently. Proved by regenerating esophagus_a at seed 1101 under
both prompts: the code's prompt reproduces the shipped wall, the recorded one
gives the bland wood-grain D described rejecting. Evidence:
docs/shots/laneA/round2_provenance_probe.png. Records re-pointed at the code's
prompt (images untouched — they were never wrong).
New: gen_textures.py --verify-provenance + qa.sh gate 5b, so it cannot rot again.

qa GREEN incl. the new gate; 11/11 provenance verified; all six biomes eyeballed
in engine (docs/shots/laneA/round2_tint_*.png).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 17:44:58 +10:00
jing
ecf43940ec [lane A] Round 2 close-out: colorspace re-eyeball, stomach shape read, ruling #5
Finishes the lane A round-2 list that f0982e7 (the rescued first half) left open:

- Biome-tint re-eyeball under the colorspace law (#4 second half). Verdict: all
  six ART_BIBLE tints stand, biomes.js untouched — the wash was wall_material's
  round-1 constants, tuned on the raw framebuffer. Retuned: rim pow 2.2->3.0,
  rim gain 0.9->0.35, textured curve (0.35+d*.95)*.9 -> 0.12+d*0.60, procedural
  d*.8 -> d^2*.65, sheen .10->.04, matcap .22->.14. Rationale documented
  in-shader. Verified on a new six-biome contact sheet (?lvl=biomes, SIX_BIOMES
  fixture — kept as permanent kit), the real L2 hiatus, and an arena interior.
  Evidence: round2_tint_*.png x6 + two *_retuned frames. qa GREEN.

- Stomach-arena shape read for C (#7): recommend the spline-swept room (arena =
  "open" mode over an s-span; fundus dome stays a welded icosphere; chained
  spheres rejected — crease rings + union collision for a worse look). Full
  argument NOTES §-> Lane C + round2_stomach_arena_sketch.svg. Triplanar
  deliberately deferred: the swept room obsoletes it where it mattered.

- Ruling #5: harness -> web/dev/laneA_world.html (+DBG.post to the house shot
  sink); _fixture.js stays — the spline selfcheck asserts against it, now
  documented in-file. launch.json: guts-a on 8145.

- NOTES + progress written for both halves; ROUND2 mid-round box updated: lane
  A's round-2 list is closed, only round-3 items remain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 17:14:30 +10:00
jing
29cca53675 [lane F] Mid-round-2 recovery: the glue that makes L2 a game
All round-2 lane sessions were cut off 15:08-15:16 before NOTES/commits; the three prior
commits preserve their work verbatim. This commit is the wiring B was cut off inside of,
plus the run-state boot owes per ruling #4:

- combat/index.js: fiction-id -> archetype resolve via C's getEnemy() (the round's declared
  ONE blocker), theta-array + spread fan-out for group spawns, hazards + pickups constructed
  and updated (order: enemies -> weapons -> hazards -> pickups, so a torpedo can neutralize
  a surge the frame it detonates), pickup score/samples onto the combat:state scoreboard,
  combat.reset(fromS) for respawn.
- flight/player.js: kill/shove/refill — the API B's new modules call; kill ignores iframes
  by design (boost-dodging through C's lethal acid wall is not a read). Deleted the
  crestSpeed fallback guard per its own comment — A's law landed.
- boot.js: run state. checkpoint crossed -> remembered; death -> 2s -> respawn at it +
  combat.reset() re-arms hazard timelines (pump deliberately does NOT rewind: no
  double-spawns, collected stays collected); gate -> level:complete {stats, par} for E's
  medal card. Exported step(dt) so the stepped-sim harness drives the REAL loop.
- ROUND2_INSTRUCTIONS: MID-ROUND STATUS box for the resuming lanes; f-progress entry.

Verified (deterministic stepped sim via boot.step, :8140): full L2 run fires all 47 events
with ZERO console warns (was: 11 spawn no-ops), all 5 hazard telegraphs, 2400 proximity
ticks, 14 pickups collected, finish 157s vs par 180 while surfing 94s of it. Death path:
throttle 0.7 into the finale -> killed by acid s=3386 -> respawn at Cardia Approach 2980 ->
surge re-arms -> second attempt escapes -> level:complete {deaths: 1}. Survivable AND
losable. Evidence: docs/shots/laneF/round2_L2_integrated_full_run.png. qa.sh GREEN.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 16:39:44 +10:00
jing
f0982e70c3 [lane A] Round 2 WIP (session cut off): crest-speed law, taper blending, schema-v2 wave, TBN walls
Landed before the cut: crestSpeed(s) + CREST_FACTOR 1.6 (ruling #1) with selfcheck
asserts; radius blend widened +/-12 -> +/-25 (C's #4 dependency) + no-cliff selfcheck;
per-segment wave.amp override as per-vertex aWaveA (ruling #8); colorspace law in the
wall shader (ruling #2); TBN normal maps + matcap + dual detail layers (D's perturb(),
trap documented in-shader); sample(s, out) v1.2; slug map shrunk to the two real
mismatches. Evidence: docs/shots/laneA/round2_L2_*.png.

Cut off before: NOTES/progress, stomach-arena shape read for C (task #7).
Committed by F to protect the shared tree; spline + qa selfchecks GREEN at commit time.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 16:26:01 +10:00
jing
4ccf5edcc0 [lane F] Round 1 integration + ROUND2 instructions: the game is a game
Wired B's player/combat + event pump, D's assets, C's level pick into boot.
Fixed qa ESM gate (node --check no-op, found by B) + added spline selfcheck.
TECH: world contract FROZEN v1.1, bus events ratified, colorspace + crest-speed
laws (CREST_FACTOR 1.6 — B proved surfing lost to throttle at 1.0). Stub complies.
Verified integrated build via 60s stepped sim: 9 draws, 0 errors, 0 asset misses;
one known gap (fiction-id spawn resolve) confirmed and assigned as B's top item.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 14:39:02 +10:00
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efea7d98f3 [lane D] Round 1: first texture pack + audio proof, exact-tiling pipeline
Textures (6 walls + normals + wet matcap, $0, ~64s on the m3ultra MPS):
- FLUX ignores "seamless tiling" (seam_error 3.7-17.9); a 4-way cosine
  partition-of-unity blend of the four half-rolls fixes it exactly -> 0.87-1.32
- levels-normalised the pack to one exposure (means were 0.18-0.32); these are
  detail maps multiplied into a biome tint, so per-prompt exposure read as a
  broken tint rather than as dark tissue
- prompt-kit experiment rejected + recorded: PROCITY's "uniform coverage" clause
  in the STEM cured centred subjects but flattened the pack; framing words now
  live only in the two subject prompts that needed them

Audio (1 bed + 4 sfx, 4.2s render, 0.61/10MB, ogg+m4a dual-ship):
- bed-esophagus 24.000s, loop seam 0.32 (wrap step 3x smaller than inner step)
- cascaded lowpass poles: one-pole at 900Hz left 16kHz only ~25dB down = hiss
- rewrote the spectrogram sheet (per-clip peak, log freq) — the first one was a
  saturated rectangle, and evidence you can't read is not evidence

assets.js: miss ledger + misses() — Lane A found that a drifted slug falls back
procedurally forever with no error. Each distinct miss now announces itself.

Also: shot_sink.py (canvas -> docs/shots/laneD, correctly named) and a dev
texture viewer that imports the stub world read-only for the eyeball law.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 14:17:17 +10:00
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689c478a7f [lane A] Round 1: the canal v0 — spline, streaming tube, scanner wall, arenas
Implements THE WORLD CONTRACT (TECH.md) in web/js/world/; drop-in for the stub.
boot.js now runs this on C's L2_esophagus (3600u, hash cefc4f83), zero console errors.

- spline.js: centreline + arclength LUTs + parallel-transport frames + radius law +
  peristalsis phase + project() + hash(). No three.js import, so qa can run its
  14-assertion selfcheck headless.
- curviness is solved from a curvature budget, not authored as an amplitude: the pinch
  guard caught the tube folding through itself on a wide+curvy join (turn radius 9.9 vs
  tube radius 17.2). C can no longer author a pinch.
- peristalsis: global OMEGA, k(s) = OMEGA/flow(s), phase K(s) = integral k ds. A crest
  therefore travels at exactly the local flow speed, so "surf the crest" == "ride the
  current". Esophagus wave amp 0.9 -> 1.4 (measured): moves wallRho for Lane B.
- tube.js: chunked streaming, seams aligned to biome joins, arenas own their s-span.
- arena.js: displaced icosphere shells v0 (three's polyhedron detail is 20*(detail+1)^2,
  not 20*4^detail — 720 tris was far too coarse); fog sized to the room, since biome fog
  tuned for 100u corridors renders C's 360u acid sea as a black rectangle.
- index.js: prefers assets.texture() over get() (get returns raw JSON a shader can't eat),
  plus an explicit slug map — D's wall_smallint_a vs biome id small_intestine would miss
  silently forever under the assets-optional law.

Measured (C's real L2 + D's real pack, 1920x1080, renderer.info): 8 draws worst frame
(budget 150), 74k tris (500k), no geometry leak across a full sweep, <120ms load,
pinch ratio 3.32. fps not claimed — the screenshot pane runs tabs hidden, pausing rAF.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 08:59:19 +10:00
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0a038582a7 [lane B] Round 1: flight controller, cannon, enemy framework on the stub
Flight (js/flight/): tube-mode controller in spline space (s,x,y) — flow-locked
forward motion, throttle as a spring-back lean, boost + i-frames, banking chase
cam on the parallel-transport frame, arcade wall response (shove + graze damage,
never a hard stop). Twin-stick input: WASD/left-stick moves the ship in the disc,
mouse/right-stick aims, Shift/Ctrl is throttle. Gamepad supported.

Combat (js/combat/): lysozyme cannon (pooled, instanced, heat-limited with
hysteresis lockout) + antacid torpedo emitting level:neutralize. Enemy framework
with floater/seeker/turret and turn-rate-limited homing darts, spawned from C's
level:event. Coat/hull model and the full bus surface E builds against.

Measured (deterministic stepper): flow-lock exact (3s at flow 14 -> s=44.0);
boost peak 30.8 u/s; heat 4s fire -> 2s lockout; wall slam 13.3 coat at 11.3 u/s
with forward speed untouched; 10 combat draws at 55 live enemies (budget <=80);
0.10 ms/frame CPU; 0 leaks over 20 create/dispose cycles. fps NOT claimed — rAF
does not run in the automated pane. Evidence: docs/shots/laneB/.

Three findings escalated in LANE_B_NOTES:
- qa.sh gate #1 is a no-op: node --check silently exits 0 on ESM, so the syntax
  gate has never checked anything. I shipped a real SyntaxError past a GREEN qa.
  Fix + verification handed to F.
- Surf is structurally broken: the peristalsis wave (13.64 u/s) is slower than
  the player (19.6 u/s), so level 2's signature mechanic loses to mashing
  throttle. Not tunable from this lane; escalated to A/F with options.
- Custom ShaderMaterials need #include <colorspace_fragment>, else ART_BIBLE's
  hostile amber reaches the display as rgb(255,26,6). Fixed here; stub/walls
  inherit it.

js/flight/dev.html is a dev harness (boot.js has no player wiring yet); it
retires once F pastes the snippet in LANE_B_NOTES.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 08:56:32 +10:00
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1b5ec767cd [lane C] Round 1: schema v1, levels registry + selfcheck + pacing sim, L2 vertical slice
Data spine:
- Schema v1 ratified (TECH.md, C-owned). Additive over v0: schema/par/next, segment
  name, cross-section placement (theta/rho as a FRACTION of safe radius), spread, span,
  pickup+gate event types, hazard params. STUB_LEVEL synced (that const only, per
  ROUND1 §Lane C.1) — world.hash() unchanged (1bdf001), geometry provably untouched.
- levels/index.js: registry + loader (node+browser, no THREE), real schema selfcheck
  (qa's --selfcheck hook is now live) and a pacing simulator (--sim). Consumes the other
  lanes' contracts live rather than restating them: A's biomes.js for ids and
  wave.amp+breathe, A's SKIN, B's tuning.js hull radius, B's balance.js for scores.
- levels/enemies.js (fiction id -> archetype join table), levels/difficulty.js.

L2_esophagus — the vertical slice, complete: 3600 units, 7 beats, 47 events, 65 enemies,
10 checkpoints, 3 samples, reflux-surge finale. L1/L3 skeletons (shape only).
Anatomy is the level designer: the three real esophageal constrictions are the three
setpieces, and all three enemies are real esophageal pathology (bolus chunk, eosinophilic
esophagitis, candida esophagitis).

Measured (node web/js/levels/index.js --selfcheck|--sim; qa GREEN):
- selfcheck 3/3 valid, exit 0.
- pressure curve 0.27 -> 2.14 -> 4.35 -> 0.69 -> 4.53 -> 6.35 -> 4.40 (breather/pressure/
  spike/breather/pressure/peak/finale).
- par 3:30 vs measured 2:47 speedrun / 3:19 par-pace / 4:22 timid; par.score 9000 of a
  9400 kill budget (95%), computed from B's scores.
- all 10 checkpoint gaps within the <=30s death-cost law (max 28.8s); min clearance 2.73.

Two contract collisions found and resolved (LANE_C_NOTES):
- Biome ids: authored mouth/pharynx/cardia/pylorus; A's registry has six canonical ids and
  rejected all four. A is right — biome = look, segments[].name = anatomy. Conformed.
- Balance: my first enemies.js restated hp/size/speed/score that B owns in balance.js.
  Cut to a join table; index.js reads B's scores via scoreFor().

Caught live: A raised esophagus wave.amp 0.9 -> 1.4 mid-session, making the diaphragmatic
hiatus unflyable (2.33 vs the 2.5 floor). Widened 6.5 -> 6.8. The invariant also failed my
own aortic constriction's first draft (radius 7, symmetric squeeze) -> radius 9, directional.

No in-engine flythrough: ?stub=1&lvl= does not compose (snippet offered to F) and the stub
is single-segment, so it could only render beat 1. The pacing evidence is a kinematic model,
not a playtest — it proves L2 is flyable, paced and survivable, not that it feels good.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 08:53:34 +10:00
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34f84ab162 [lane F] Round 0 scaffold: docs, contracts, lane charters, bootable stub world
GDD v1 (flow-locked hybrid movement, 5 biomes + secret, boss roster),
TECH contracts (world API, level schema v0, bus events, manifest law),
ART_BIBLE (synthetic scanner look), PIPELINE (MODELBEAST-first, fal gated),
PROCESS (PROCITY lane/round law), charters A-F + ROUND1 instructions.
Seed code: shell + boot + core (rng/bus/flags) + stub world (peristalsis
shader tube, 1 draw / 102k tris, contract-complete) + qa.sh (GREEN).
Verified in-browser; evidence docs/shots/laneF/round0_stub_tube.png.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 01:28:35 +10:00