Fable Review

fable/README.md

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+# fable/ — an outside reading of the bubble chamber project
+
+Written 2026-07-04 by Claude (Fable 5), after a full review: every doc, the core
+`src/` tree, the QFT and compose subsystems, the milkweed/watercolor working set,
+all 37 tools, the 2.4 GB output archive, the git history on `main`, and the
+unmerged `milkweed-wind-field` branch. Outputs were viewed, not just listed.
+
+Four documents:
+
+1. **[01-intent-vs-execution.md](01-intent-vs-execution.md)** — what the project
+   says it is vs. what the repo shows it does. The interesting gaps, including
+   one confirmed rendering bug that is also, accidentally, the most on-theme
+   thing in the archive.
+2. **[02-current-state.md](02-current-state.md)** — a factual snapshot: what
+   exists, what's committed, what's stale, what's stranded on a branch.
+3. **[03-feedback.md](03-feedback.md)** — critique. The habits that are working,
+   the ones that are quietly costing you, and the decisions currently deferred
+   into the working tree.
+4. **[04-ideas.md](04-ideas.md)** — directions to explore, weighted toward the
+   perpendicular ones the roadmap doesn't already contain.
+
+The one-paragraph version: **the images earn their ambition; the stated purpose
+of the project is the only part of it that has never been exercised.** This is a
+large-format print project with no evidence of a print — the master pipeline was
+built in the first 48 hours and never fed again, while eight subsequent creative
+phases produced 2.2 GB of screen-resolution sketches. The instinct that keeps
+generating new instruments (QFT, compositions, milkweed, watercolor) is the
+project's engine and its avoidance mechanism at the same time. The single
+highest-information act available right now costs less than any feature on the
+roadmap: pick one seed and send it to a printer.