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+# Intent vs. execution
+
+The project states its intent unusually well, in four layers:
+
+- **originalprompt.md** (May 19): "One goal is large format print. Vector
+  graphics are ideal. …seed/hash concept for reproducibility. This is an art
+  project."
+- **DESIGN.md**: one renderer-agnostic scene model, many renderers; "get the β
+  statistics right and the image reads as authentic."
+- **PRINT.md**: a ~2.5 × 4 m wall piece, assembled from registered SVG geometry
+  + raster texture layers.
+- **roadmap.md**: the feelings — awe, stillness, melancholy, scale-vertigo, the
+  numinous — and a guiding test: *"does it deepen the sense that we are looking
+  at a real trace of something unseen — and does it reward standing closer?"*
+
+Below, each declared intent against what the repo actually shows.
+
+---
+
+## 1. "Large-format print" — the founding goal is the least-executed one
+
+The print pipeline is real and good: `tools/render.sh`, a hand-rolled CMYK PDF
+writer with OCG layers (`src/render/pdf.js`, 295 lines, genuinely impressive),
+Inkscape-convention layered SVG, resolution math in PRINT.md.
+
+The execution record: `output/masters/` holds 7 masters across 5 seeds, **all
+dated May 20–21** — the first 48 hours. No master exists from any of the eight
+creative phases since. No `_9000.png` photographic master is on disk. The tiled
+renderer PRINT.md names as the escape hatch for the 4 m dimension
+(`tools/render-tiled.mjs` — "ask and I'll build it") was never built. The dev
+entry `index.html` still says "Print target: 24″ × 24″", contradicting the
+2.5 × 4 m ambition in PRINT.md — neither has been updated because neither has
+been tested against a physical object.
+
+Every phase since May 21 stopped at 1300–1600 px exploration renders. The
+roadmap's guiding test — "does it reward standing closer?" — is a question about
+a physical print viewed by a body, and it has never once been asked of a
+physical print. **The project optimizes a feeling it has not yet measured.**
+
+## 2. "One scene model, many renderers" — the seam holds; the look leaks
+
+DESIGN.md's architectural claim is verifiably true in the strict sense: all 11
+files in `src/scene/` are pure data, zero canvas/DOM references. Bubble
+positions come from one shared salted stream and land identically in raster,
+SVG, and PDF. The discipline held for six weeks of feature growth. That is rare
+and worth saying plainly.
+
+But the *look* was never given the same seam. Style decisions live triplicated
+as freehand copies inside the three renderers, and they have already drifted:
+
+- Bubble radius: `rr*foot(soft)` in canvas, `b.r*scale*1.15` in SVG,
+  `b.r*scale` (no 1.15) in PDF — three renderers, three bubble sizes.
+- Fiducial arm length: 6u canvas, 9u SVG, 8u PDF.
+- ~150–200 lines of formulas (under-stroke width, bubble alpha, disk-stroke
+  alpha, iridescent spectrum mix) exist in verbatim triplicate.
+- PDF quietly lags: no vignette, no media layer (grease pencil / réseau / film
+  furniture), no shock stains, no fingerprints. Fingerprints are canvas-only.
+  Whole parameters (`boundaryY/R`, `diskPressure`, `emit`, `transparentPaper`)
+  exist only in the SVG renderer.
+
+`bubbleStops()` in palette.js — one edge profile consumed by both the canvas
+sprite gradient and the SVG radial gradient — is the model the rest of the look
+logic should have followed. The architecture document describes the seam that
+exists; it does not mention the seam that's missing.
+
+## 3. "Determinism is a feature. The seed as a true name" — true at the altar, loose in the pews
+
+The salt discipline (`makeRng(seed, 'subsystem')`) is followed at feature
+granularity: changing cosmic count cannot move the shock disk; `eventX/eventY`
+overrides still burn their rng draws so downstream is stable. Someone thought
+about this carefully.
+
+But within modules the promise breaks: dialing `shockStriations` reshuffles the
+rim segments, rings, stains, *and* core cracks; the `artifacts` slider re-rolls
+every scratch and dust speck instead of fading them; the density slider —
+nominally a render-mode param — reshuffles every bubble position on every
+track. And the theology weakens with distance from the original generator:
+PRINT.md admits manual slider tweaks are *not* part of the seed fingerprint;
+`src/qft/params.js` claims "seed → complete fingerprint" while the camera,
+ripples, vortices, and wavepackets have **no seeded path at all** — a bare QFT
+seed always yields the default isometric lattice. The true name names less and
+less of the plate the further you get from `src/scene/`.
+
+## 4. The confirmed bug that is secretly the thesis
+
+`renderQFTSVG` silently drops ripple grids. The scene builder creates
+`id:'ripple'` grids; the renderer emits only `cubic`, `schlegel`, and `e8`
+layers (`src/qft/renderer.js:178-181`). Verified at runtime: a scene declaring
+ripples renders an SVG with no ripple geometry. This has been true since the
+single "Added QFT" commit.
+
+Consequence: sketch08's entire premise ("RIPPLES — concentric expanding
+wavefronts"), sketch09's `03_vortex-with-spinning-ripples`,
+`15_perturbation-cascade`, `17_spectral-vortex-storm` — **106 hand-authored
+variation configs, and every one that invoked ripples shipped a plate whose
+label describes a feature absent from the image.** Two subsequent sketch series
+were art-directed on top of it. Nobody noticed, because the plates were judged
+by eye against feelings, not against their own scene models.
+
+Note what happened here: a project whose subject is *evidence of the invisible*,
+which forges archival captions ("PLATE 095 · EXPOSED 1972"), produced a
+catalogue of plates whose captions confidently describe invisible content. The
+fiction became true by accident. There are two valid responses — fix it, or
+recognize it (see [04-ideas.md](04-ideas.md) §3, the neutrino argument) — but
+the current state, where the archive lies and the author doesn't know, is the
+only wrong one.
+
+## 5. "The series is an argument" — the argument exists; it's the repo itself
+
+Roadmap principle 5 wants Becher-typology grids, a fabricated catalogue, an
+archive. Phase 4 is marked "in progress" and the media layer (grease pencil,
+sprockets, réseau) shipped beautifully — the BEBC-1973 output plate genuinely
+reads as a worn archival photograph; I looked.
+
+Meanwhile, without noticing, the project *built an actual archive*: 19 output
+directories, 675 tracked files, ten gallery `index.html`s, sketch series 01–09,
+templates 1–4, a wall-mock (`tools/archive-wall.html`) frozen at the May 29
+curation. It has the true properties of real archives: numbered series with
+missing entries (perspective1/2 scripts deleted, their outputs orphaned),
+instruments that no longer match their plates (`compositions/hero.mjs` uses
+radial-grid keys the code no longer reads), mislabeled holdings (§4), and an
+expedition that never reported back (the `milkweed-wind-field` branch). The
+fabricated-archive artwork the roadmap plans is a *simulation* of what the repo
+has *actually become*. That inversion is the most interesting unexploited
+material in the project.
+
+## 6. Physics honesty — the one place intent and execution fully agree
+
+The code is candid about its fakery in a way most generative-art code isn't:
+δ-rays are analytic log spirals because integrating to sub-percent radii "is
+unreliable" (the header says so); the shock disk announces "Not physics — a
+chamber/window pressure artifact"; every particle in this universe has mass 1;
+V-decays conserve neither momentum nor anything else. The load-bearing claim —
+get the 1/β² bubble statistics right and the eye accepts everything — is
+correct, and the outputs prove it. One comment lies (`delta.js:53` claims the
+angular step gets finer toward the center; the formula coarsens it), which is
+the kind of thing that only matters because the rest of the codebase has earned
+the habit of being believed.
+
+## 7. The drift nobody wrote down
+
+The documents describe a project: *one generator, deepened along a staged plan.*
+The git history records a different project: *a widening fleet of instruments* —
+bubble chamber → QFT lattices → carpet/perspective primitives → composition
+schema → art-historical templates → element liberation → watercolor → milkweed —
+where each phase spawns a fork-and-mutate tool family and a fresh output
+directory, and commits are creative sessions ("vast ocean", "Element
+Liberation"), not code changes. Neither mode is wrong. But the roadmap still
+narrates mode one while the hands do mode two, which is why Phase 3 (the
+translucent stacked print — the *stated* strongest fusion) has had no work at
+all while two unplanned renderers and two unplanned subject-matters shipped.
+The truest sentence in the repo is in the memory index, not the roadmap:
+"typology MATRIX of standalone singles." The roadmap should be made to say what
+the project has decided by doing.

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+# Current state — factual snapshot (2026-07-04)
+
+## Codebase
+
+| Area | Size | State |
+|---|---|---|
+| Core (`src/rng` + `scene/` + `render/` + `ui/` + `main` + build) | ~3,220 lines | Committed, disciplined, small |
+| QFT (`src/qft/`) | 9 files, ~1,250 lines | Committed (one commit, May 29) |
+| Compose (`src/compose/`) | 4 files, ~680 lines | Committed |
+| Watercolor (`src/render/watercolor.js`) | 427 lines | **Uncommitted** (Jun 24–25) |
+| Milkweed-botanical (`src/milkweed/umbel.js`) | 169 lines | **Uncommitted** (Jun 25) |
+| Milkweed-windfield (`src/field/wind.js`, `src/scene/umbel.js`, `src/scene/drift.js`, GROUP_BUILDERS registry) | ~225 lines + compose rework | **Committed on unmerged branch** `milkweed-wind-field` (63066ee, Jun 17, also pushed) |
+| Tools | 37 files, ~4,750 lines | Committed except 3 newest |
+
+Git: 12 commits on `main`, May 20 → Jun 10. Last commit **24 days ago**. The
+uncommitted watercolor + milkweed work is a 2-day session (Jun 24–25) followed
+by 9 days of silence. An entire fourth renderer exists only in the working tree.
+
+## The two milkweeds (important — memory/docs conflate them)
+
+1. **Branch** `milkweed-wind-field`: the "hidden realities" system — one
+   divergence-free wind field (closed-form time integral, elegantly done), three
+   detectors (dunes/water/seeds), umbel-as-vertex, drift-as-advection, plus the
+   GROUP_BUILDERS registry refactor of the composition engine. Committed Jun 17,
+   never merged.
+2. **Working tree on main** (`src/milkweed/umbel.js`): a *different* milkweed —
+   a botanical Asclepias still-life scene built for the watercolor renderer.
+   Does not import the wind field.
+
+Both export `generateUmbel` with **incompatible signatures**. Merging the branch
+as-is collides. This is an unmade decision materialized as two files.
+
+## Renderers
+
+4 renderers for bubble-chamber scenes (photo raster / SVG / PDF / watercolor);
+QFT has only its own SVG renderer — no photographic or watercolor QFT exists.
+Feature parity: PDF lags (no media layer, vignette, stains, fingerprints); SVG
+has private params (`boundary*`, `diskPressure`, `emit`, `transparentPaper`);
+~150–200 lines of look logic triplicated and drifting (three bubble sizes).
+Watercolor integrates through the proper seam (same signature, shared
+`sampleBubbles`/`depthFactors`, palette registry extended not bypassed), with
+known rough edges: dead `preview` flag, scratch-canvas cache keyed by width
+only, heavy per-pigment blur cost at print resolution, no UI entry point yet —
+reachable only via `tools/preview.html?renderer=watercolor`.
+
+## Parameter surface
+
+≈68 total: 53 in the UI (43 sliders / 2 selects / 8 toggles) + ~15 hidden or
+SVG-only. Flat namespace is starting to encode per-palette sub-schemas by label
+convention ("(magentarise)" ×3). Every new param is a 3–4 place edit.
+
+## Tools & outputs
+
+- 8 durable pipeline tools; ~25 one-off sketch scripts (fork-and-mutate: the
+  same `merge()` helper verbatim in 5 files, `F()` color helper redefined in 12
+  of 17 QFT tools, the contact-sheet HTML inlined 17 times). Zero shared
+  tool-level utility module.
+- `output/`: 2.4 GB, 19 directories, 675 tracked files. Chronology: inspiration
+  → masters (May 20–21) → 5 iteration series → QFT sketches 01–09 → qft-bc →
+  layering (642 MB, the largest) → liberation → templates 1–4 → watercolor +
+  milkweed (untracked).
+- `output/masters/`: 7 masters, 5 seeds, all from May 20–21. Nothing since.
+
+## Stale / dead weight
+
+- `bubble_chamber.html` — the headline "portable single file" deliverable —
+  built May 31, now 3.5 weeks behind `src/` (missing the milkweed palette, the
+  Jun 17 svgVector changes, watercolor). Nothing detects staleness; the built
+  file stamps *that* it was built, not from what.
+- `bubble_chamber.v2.html` — superseded snapshot, dead.
+- `tools/archive-wall.html` — hardcodes the May 29 curation; predates
+  templates/liberation/watercolor.
+- `compositions/hero.mjs` — the only file in `compositions/`; uses radial-grid
+  keys (`vp`, `rays`, `depthLines`) that `gridSheets` now silently ignores.
+- `tools/inkwash-export.mjs` — self-declared superseded by the native
+  watercolor renderer ("kept as a record").
+- `composer.html` — works, but one phase behind (untouched during watercolor).
+- `package.json` — 3 npm scripts, all from May 20; none of the ~25 later tools
+  registered.
+- `tools/render-qft-svg.mjs` references a `render-milkweed-svg.mjs` that
+  doesn't exist.
+
+## Known bugs
+
+1. **Ripple grids silently dropped** by `renderQFTSVG` (`src/qft/renderer.js:178-181`)
+   — every "ripple" variation across sketches 08–09 shipped without its subject.
+2. `drawDamage`/`drawInstrument` last param named `inv` but called with `light`
+   (`src/render/canvasPhoto.js:110,208`) — works today, trap for the next edit.
+3. `perspectiveGridSVG` creates an rng it never uses — the compose layer's
+   'pA'/'pB' salts do nothing for radial grids.
+4. Dead pre-palette-era fields in `canvasPhoto.js` `palette()`; `delta.js:53`
+   comment inverts what the formula does; `watercolor.js:374` `0.05 * 8`.

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+# Feedback
+
+Ordered by how much I think each item matters. Praise is included only where
+it's load-bearing for a recommendation.
+
+## 1. You are avoiding the print, and the repo shows it
+
+Eight creative phases in six weeks, and the master pipeline — the thing the
+project exists for — was last fed on day two. This has the signature of a
+familiar creative pattern: exploring is reversible and always rewarding;
+printing is a commitment that risks discovering the piece doesn't work at
+scale. So the exploration space keeps widening (new generator, new renderer,
+new subject) because widening is the move that never has to survive contact
+with a wall.
+
+The honest counter-argument is that the vocabulary wasn't ready. It's ready.
+The BEBC plates read as archival photographs; the watercolor stillwater study
+holds up; PRINT.md already contains the assembly recipe. Every week of further
+exploration is now producing information about the *screen* version of a *wall*
+piece. One A1/A2 test print of one strong seed would generate more course
+correction than any three future sketch series — it will tell you whether the
+grain scales, whether the δ-ray curls reward approach, whether "standing
+closer" works, and it will almost certainly reorder the roadmap.
+
+## 2. Decisions are being deferred into the working tree
+
+Three currently open:
+
+- The wind-field milkweed (branch, Jun 17) vs. the botanical milkweed (working
+  tree, Jun 25) — two incompatible `generateUmbel`s. Which milkweed is *the*
+  milkweed, or are they two subjects (a field study and a specimen plate)?
+  Either answer is fine; not answering is what costs.
+- The watercolor renderer: 427 good lines, uncommitted for 10 days. Ten more
+  days of this and merging the branch becomes an archaeology project.
+- The GROUP_BUILDERS registry on the branch is a strictly better composition
+  engine than what's on main, independent of milkweed. It could be
+  cherry-picked today.
+
+A useful rule given how you work (commits = sessions): **end every session with
+a commit, even a WIP one.** Your commits are already narrative; let them be
+frequent-narrative.
+
+## 3. Nothing verifies that a plate contains what its scene model says
+
+The ripple bug survived three sketch series because the only QA is your eye,
+and your eye judges *feeling*, not *inventory*. Determinism is the project's
+religion, but determinism without ground truth just means you reproducibly get
+the wrong image. Cheap fixes that fit the project's culture:
+
+- A layer-census check: render a scene, assert every `id` in the scene model
+  produced a nonempty layer/group in the output. ~30 lines, would have caught
+  the ripple drop on day one.
+- Golden-seed snapshots: 3–4 canonical seeds rendered per renderer, diffed on
+  commit (you already have headless Chrome plumbing in `shoot.sh`).
+- Stamp the build: embed the source git hash + date in `bubble_chamber.html`
+  so staleness is visible instead of silent.
+
+## 4. The look needs its own seam
+
+The scene/renderer split is genuinely well-kept — which makes it strange that
+the *style* never got the same treatment. Three renderers currently disagree
+about bubble size, and each new visual feature is hand-ported (or, for PDF,
+quietly not). `bubbleStops()` already demonstrates the fix: one shared module
+of style formulas (stroke widths, alphas, radii, spectrum mixes) consumed by
+all renderers. This is a half-day of consolidation that removes the largest
+source of drift in the codebase. Do it before renderer #5, because there will
+be a renderer #5.
+
+## 5. Sketch tools: keep the data, share the harness
+
+The 17 QFT scripts are a legitimate serial sketchbook — the variation configs
+*are* the artwork's process record, and hardcoded OUT dirs are honest about
+their one-shot nature. But the 12-line render loop, `F()`, `paper()`, and the
+gallery HTML are copy-pasted across all of them, with signature drift. One
+40-line `renderSketch(outDir, baseSeed, variations)` harness turns every future
+sketch into a pure data file. Same for the deep-`merge()` in 5 compose tools.
+Don't retrofit the old ones; they're finished documents. Change the template
+for the next one.
+
+## 6. Small structural debts worth an hour each
+
+- `carpet.js`/`perspgrid.js` are compose-system primitives parked in
+  `src/qft/` — they share nothing with the QFT pipeline.
+- `src/compose/composition.js` imports parameter defaults from
+  `src/ui/controls.js` — the headless engine depends on the UI layer. Move
+  defaults down; let the UI consume them.
+- The `MILK` pigment table just colonized core `palette.js` from the milkweed
+  satellite. One entry is fine; it's the precedent to watch — palettes should
+  be injectable from the satellite that owns them.
+- Delete or archive: `bubble_chamber.v2.html`, `tools/inkwash-export.mjs` (it
+  says goodbye in its own header), `tools/find-semicircle.mjs`. Fix or delete
+  `compositions/hero.mjs` (currently half-ignored by the code) and
+  `tools/archive-wall.html` (frozen curation), or explicitly rename them as
+  dated snapshots.
+- `params.js` QFT: either seed the camera/perturbation params or drop the
+  "seed → complete fingerprint" claim from the header. The claim is currently
+  the documentation equivalent of the ripple bug.
+
+## 7. What's working — keep doing these on purpose
+
+- **Literate headers.** Nearly every file explains *why the fake was chosen
+  over the real*. This is the best code-as-notebook practice I've seen in a
+  personal art repo, and it's why the intent/execution comparison in this
+  review was even possible.
+- **The β thesis.** "Get the statistics right and the eye believes" was the
+  founding bet and it paid; the outputs are convincing at thumbnail and at
+  1500 px. Protect that thesis as you add renderers — watercolor already
+  correctly routes 1/β² into stroke weight.
+- **Deterministic fiction.** Plate numbers and exposure dates derived from the
+  seed hash — the forgery itself is reproducible. This idea is bigger than its
+  current use (see ideas §2).
+- **Commits as sessions** produce a legible creative history. The fix from §2
+  isn't to change the style, just the frequency.

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+# Ideas to explore
+
+Ordered roughly by information-per-effort. §1 is the forcing function; the rest
+are perpendicular moves the roadmap doesn't already contain (I've skipped
+things roadmap.md lists — stereo pairs, sonification, animation — except where
+there's a twist).
+
+## 1. The calibration print — and make the calibration itself the artwork
+
+Not "eventually print the piece": print a *test instrument*. One strong seed
+(LAMBDA-2648 already has three disk-variant masters) rendered as an A1 sheet
+that deliberately contains its own diagnostics — a strip of the plate at 1:1
+wall scale, a δ-ray magnified 10×, grain swatches at three DPIs, the archival
+header, a ruler. Real labs print calibration targets; yours would be a
+fictional lab's calibration target, which means it's simultaneously the
+cheapest possible print test *and* a legitimate piece in the archive fiction.
+You cannot art-direct "does it reward standing closer" from a screen, and this
+turns the scary commitment into a small in-universe document.
+
+## 2. Generate the catalogue raisonné from the repo itself
+
+The project plans a *fabricated* archive (Phase 4) while sitting on a *real*
+one: 675 outputs, 19 directories, sketch series with gaps, orphaned plates
+whose generating instruments were deleted, a wall-mock frozen at an old
+curation. Perpendicular move: a tool that walks `output/` + `git log` and
+typesets the actual history as an archival catalogue — every plate with its
+seed, commit hash as accession number, session name ("vast ocean") as
+expedition title, *including* the losses ("plates 07–14: instrument lost,
+holdings retained"). The deterministic-fiction machinery (seed → plate number →
+exposure date) already exists; point it at the truth. This is the Becher-grid
+"series is an argument" piece, except the argument is real, and it costs a
+script rather than a new subsystem.
+
+## 3. The neutrino plate — the bug is pointing at something
+
+Before fixing the ripple bug, notice what it made: plates whose captions
+describe content that isn't visible. That is *literally the most famous bubble
+chamber result*. Gargamelle's 1973 neutral-current discovery — the actual lab
+your plates cite — was an image where the evidence was an *absence*: a neutrino
+enters, nothing appears, an electron suddenly moves. A deliberate series of
+"invisible content" plates — captions and grease-pencil annotations
+confidently marking events the plate doesn't show, a measured arrow pointing
+at blank emulsion, `EVENT: ν̄ CANDIDATE` over undisturbed paper — is the
+purest possible execution of the roadmap's founding line: *evidence of the
+invisible*. The most devotional plate in the archive should be the one where
+faith is required. (Then fix the renderer, and let the ripples exist on
+purpose.)
+
+## 4. Fill the matrix — subjects × mediums is the actual typology
+
+Your own memory note already names the thesis: "typology MATRIX of standalone
+singles." Make the matrix literal. You have subjects {bubble chamber, QFT
+lattice, milkweed/wind} and mediums {photographic, clean vector, CMYK plate,
+watercolor} — and only ~half the cells exist. No photographic QFT (a *lattice*
+shot on worn film, with grain and grease pencil, would be extraordinary and is
+mostly plumbing — QFT only ever got an SVG renderer). No watercolor QFT. No
+photographic milkweed (a botanical subject shot as if it were a physics event —
+herbarium-as-detector). The empty cells are cheaper than any new subject
+because both axes already exist; and a wall hung *as the matrix* — same seed
+down each column — is the standalone-singles argument stated in one object.
+
+## 5. One hidden field, many instruments — say the quiet thesis out loud
+
+The wind-field branch stumbled onto the project's real unifying idea: **one
+invisible cause, several detectors that each transduce it differently** (dunes
+remember, water reports instantaneously, seeds integrate along their path).
+Notice the bubble chamber is already this — the B-field and beam are the
+hidden cause; chamber, film, and scanner are the detector chain. The QFT plates
+are this — the vacuum as field, lattices as instruments. Reframed, the project
+isn't "a bubble chamber generator plus spinoffs"; it's *portraits of invisible
+fields, each painted by the instruments that can feel them*. Concretely: merge
+the branch's field/detector separation into the architecture (`src/field/` as
+a first-class layer any subject can sample), and let one seed drive the same
+hidden field through a chamber plate, a dune plate, and a water plate — a
+triptych where the viewer slowly realizes all three images are the *same
+event*. That's the scale-vertigo feeling the roadmap chases, produced
+structurally instead of stylistically.
+
+## 6. The failure plates
+
+Real bubble chamber archives are mostly failures: empty triggers, double
+exposures, boiling chamber, light leaks, frames where the beam didn't arrive.
+Your generator only makes successes. A `misfire` archetype — blank plates with
+full film furniture, an over-exposed white-out with one surviving corner, a
+splice through the event — does three things: deepens the archive fiction
+(archives without failures read as fake), gives the typology grids their
+necessary rest-notes (24 perfect plates read as wallpaper; 21 + 3 failures read
+as history), and it's nearly free — the media/damage layers already exist and
+just need permission to win.
+
+## 7. Verification as darkroom craft, not engineering chore
+
+Framing matters in a solo art repo: don't build "CI", build *the darkroom
+contact sheet*. One command that renders the golden seeds through all four
+renderers onto a single dated sheet, with the layer census (§feedback 3)
+printed in the margin like exposure notes. Run it when you commit. It catches
+the next ripple bug, documents renderer drift as a visible artifact, and the
+sheets themselves accumulate into a record of the project's eye changing over
+time — which, given idea §2, eventually becomes material.
+
+## 8. The seed as edition certificate
+
+"The seed as a true name" is currently a private convenience. Push it to the
+viewer-facing surface: the frame label carries the seed, the git hash of the
+renderer, and the sentence "this image can be re-derived, at any size,
+forever." An edition where what's sold/kept is effectively *the name plus the
+instrument version* is both honest about how the work is made and — because
+PRINT.md's fingerprint claim currently has holes (manual tweaks, unseeded QFT
+params) — it forces the discipline to become real: if the seed is the
+certificate, everything must actually live in the seed. Theology becomes
+engineering requirement.
+
+---
+
+**One anti-idea, for balance:** no fifth subject and no fifth renderer until
+something hangs on a wall. The pattern analysis in 01/03 says the next new
+instrument is the most likely next move and the least informative one
+available. The wind field (§5) is exempt because it consolidates instruments;
+everything else can wait a print.

fable/Proof1/README.md

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+# Proof1 — the lit chamber
+
+*First physical translation: screen → acrylic → light. Based on
+`REFINED_Backlit7/merge-45 → merge-55`.*
+
+## What this is
+
+A bubble chamber photographed the invisible: a particle passed, boiled a
+line of bubbles into being, and was gone — leaving a trail as its only
+confession. This project makes new such confessions by hand-parameter, then
+stages one as a world. *One Sun Setting*: a single event erupting at the
+waterline of a quiet sea, beneath a sun already fading into memory. Silence
+and violence in one frame.
+
+## Inspiration
+
+CERN plate film on a light table. Hokusai's small figures under enormous
+weather. Twombly's one honest gesture on a still ground. The idea that
+*evidence of the invisible rhymes across scales* — the spiral of a δ-ray and
+the spiral of a milkweed seed are the same handwriting.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+The archive costume came off, layer by layer, until only the gesture
+remained. No scanner's hand. No labels — a legible glyph commands *read me*;
+this piece asks only *look*. The palette holds: β-law magenta, hot at birth,
+violet only as a last word. The sea stays calm so the event can be loud —
+loudness lives in a small mark against vastness, never in clutter. The sun
+recedes; it is what the light *was*, not a character. Composition obeys φ:
+the golden rectangle, the horizon on the golden division, sun and event vertex
+on opposing golden nodes.
+
+## Craft
+
+The seed is the whole fingerprint — an image and its four-metre master are one
+truth at two sizes. Bubbles are hollow: pale core, refracting rim, delicate as
+mist at nose distance. Where they crowd, they *merge* — one flat union at an
+even density, so a dense knot never becomes mud, and, lit, never punches a dark
+hole in the glow. Even ink = even light. That is the whole discipline of the
+backlit grammar: **depth is transparency.** The deepest plane carries the least
+ink and the most light.
+
+## Goals
+
+Take the locked frame apart into planes and give it air. Sun to the back, pure
+transmitted colour, a light source rather than a picture. Sea in the middle,
+a woven field. The event to the front, erupting toward the viewer. Air gaps
+turn faked blur into real parallax; the LED panel behind frosted acrylic turns
+faded ink into a sun that actually shines. Prove one hero, then let the typology
+grow around it — a wall of catalogued dawns over one vacuum sea.
+
+## Feels
+
+Arrival and dispersal at once. A single instant, embalmed, outliving the
+conditions that made it. Awe, not spectacle. The held breath before the wave.

fable/Proof1/manifest.json

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+  "source": "REFINED_Backlit7 merge (mirror event, uniform-lace)",
+  "seed": "MESON-5113#03",
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+    {
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+      "dim": 1,
+      "white": "none",
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+      "blend": "multiply"
+    }
+  ]
+}

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fable/Proof1/simulator.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8">
+<title>Proof1 · lit chamber — backlit parallax</title>
+<style>
+  :root{--gap:6;--bright:1;}
+  html,body{margin:0;height:100%;background:#0a0a0b;overflow:hidden;
+    font:12px/1.5 ui-monospace,monospace;color:#9aa;}
+  #wrap{position:fixed;inset:0;display:grid;place-items:center;}
+  .scene{perspective:2200px;perspective-origin:50% 45%;}
+  .stack{position:relative;transform-style:preserve-3d;transition:transform .06s linear;
+    width:500.5px;height:810px;}
+  .panel{position:absolute;inset:-14%;transform:translateZ(-120px);
+    background:radial-gradient(120% 90% at 50% 42%,#fff6ec, #ffe7c8 42%, #f0c48c 78%, #caa06a 100%);
+    filter:blur(2px);}
+  .plane{position:absolute;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;background-size:cover;
+    background-repeat:no-repeat;will-change:transform,filter;}
+  #hud{position:fixed;left:14px;top:12px;z-index:9;background:#141416cc;padding:12px 14px;
+    border-left:3px solid #d9b48a;max-width:300px;}
+  #hud h1{font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.18em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#d9b48a;font-weight:400;margin:0 0 8px;}
+  #hud label{display:block;margin:7px 0 2px;color:#aab;}
+  #hud input[type=range]{width:100%;}
+  #legend{position:fixed;right:14px;top:12px;z-index:9;background:#141416cc;padding:10px 12px;color:#889;}
+  #legend b{color:#d9b48a;font-weight:400;}
+  .pill{display:inline-block;margin:2px 4px 2px 0;padding:1px 6px;border:1px solid #333;border-radius:9px;cursor:pointer;color:#aab;}
+  .pill.off{opacity:.35;text-decoration:line-through;}
+</style></head><body>
+<div id="hud">
+  <h1>Proof1 · lit chamber</h1>
+  <div>move mouse = parallax · drag sliders</div>
+  <label>air gap ×<span id="gv"></span></label>
+  <input id="gap" type="range" min="1" max="18" step="0.5" value="6">
+  <label>backlight<span id="bv"></span></label>
+  <input id="bright" type="range" min="0.3" max="1.8" step="0.05" value="1">
+  <div id="pills"></div>
+</div>
+<div id="legend"></div>
+<div id="wrap"><div class="scene"><div class="stack" id="stack">
+  <div class="panel" id="panel"></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<script>
+const PLANES=[{"id":"sun","file":"plane-1-sun.svg","z":0,"blur":1.4,"dim":0.95,"white":"none","glow":1},{"id":"sea-far","file":"plane-2-sea-far.svg","z":9,"blur":0.9,"dim":1,"white":"none","glow":0.7},{"id":"sea-mid","file":"plane-3-sea-mid.svg","z":15,"blur":0.5,"dim":1,"white":"trace","glow":0.7},{"id":"sea-near","file":"plane-4-sea-near.svg","z":18,"blur":0.2,"dim":1,"white":"trace","glow":0.7},{"id":"event-halo","file":"plane-5-event-halo.svg","z":27,"blur":2.4,"dim":0.85,"white":"none","glow":0.9},{"id":"event-core","file":"plane-6-event-core.svg","z":30,"blur":0,"dim":1,"white":"under","glow":0.5},{"id":"front-glass","file":"plane-7-front-glass.svg","z":30,"blur":0,"dim":1,"white":"none","glow":0,"blend":"multiply"}];
+const stack=document.getElementById('stack');
+const legend=document.getElementById('legend');
+const pills=document.getElementById('pills');
+const maxZ=Math.max(...PLANES.map(p=>p.z));
+const els={};
+legend.innerHTML='<b>planes</b> (front → back)<br>'+[...PLANES].reverse().map(p=>p.id+' · '+p.z+'mm').join('<br>');
+PLANES.forEach(p=>{
+  const d=document.createElement('div');
+  d.className='plane'; d.style.backgroundImage='url('+p.file+')';
+  d.dataset.id=p.id; stack.appendChild(d); els[p.id]=d;
+  const pill=document.createElement('span'); pill.className='pill'; pill.textContent=p.id;
+  pill.onclick=()=>{d.dataset.off=d.dataset.off?'':'1'; pill.classList.toggle('off'); layout();};
+  pills.appendChild(pill);
+});
+let gap=6, bright=1, mx=0, my=0;
+function layout(){
+  for(const p of PLANES){
+    const e=els[p.id];
+    const z=(p.z-maxZ)*gap;                      // front plane at 0, others recede
+    const blur=(p.blur||0)*(gap/6);
+    const off=e.dataset.off?' opacity:0;':'';
+    e.style.transform='translateZ('+z+'px)';
+    e.style.filter='blur('+blur.toFixed(2)+'px)';
+    e.style.opacity=e.dataset.off?0:(p.dim??1);
+    e.style.mixBlendMode=p.blend||'normal';
+  }
+  document.getElementById('panel').style.filter='blur(2px) brightness('+bright+')';
+}
+function parallax(){
+  stack.style.transform='rotateX('+(my*7)+'deg) rotateY('+(mx*9)+'deg)';
+}
+addEventListener('mousemove',e=>{
+  mx=(e.clientX/innerWidth-0.5)*2; my=-(e.clientY/innerHeight-0.5)*2; parallax();
+});
+const gapI=document.getElementById('gap'), brI=document.getElementById('bright');
+gapI.oninput=()=>{gap=+gapI.value; document.getElementById('gv').textContent=' '+gap; layout();};
+brI.oninput=()=>{bright=+brI.value; document.getElementById('bv').textContent=' '+bright.toFixed(2); layout();};
+document.getElementById('gv').textContent=' '+gap;
+document.getElementById('bv').textContent=' '+bright.toFixed(2);
+layout(); parallax();
+</script></body></html>

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.

fable/REFINED_Backlit/index.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>REFINED_Backlit · one sun setting</title>
+<style>body{margin:0;background:#0b0b0b;color:#bbb;font:12px/1.5 ui-monospace,monospace;padding:26px}
+h1{font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.22em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:13px;color:#d9b48a}
+.row{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(5,1fr);gap:10px;margin-top:16px}
+figure{margin:0;background:#fff;overflow:hidden}img{width:100%;display:block}
+figcaption{padding:6px 8px;color:#e8e4d8;background:#111;font-size:11px}
+.grid{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr);gap:14px;margin-top:22px}
+.notes{color:#999;background:#161210;padding:12px 16px;border-left:3px solid #d9b48a;margin:14px 0;max-width:960px}</style></head><body>
+<h1>One sun setting — plate Nº 217, five exposures</h1>
+<div class="notes">The trigger event is identical in every frame — a single millisecond, embalmed — while everything around it ages: the sun walks its setting diagonal and sinks, the chamber keeps running (history accumulates), the grain grows as the light dies, and the water remembers: the wave rows slowly bend around the submerged evidence. The sea never reacts in the instant; influence arrives only through time. The hand tracks the descent — ghost-rings where the sun was, altitude readings, and when the sun is gone, a guess.</div>
+<div class="row"><figure><img src="01_sun-above.svg"><figcaption>sun above · 19:04</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="02_sun-touching.svg"><figcaption>sun touching · 19:26</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="03_sun-half.svg"><figcaption>sun half · 19:47</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="04_sun-drowned.svg"><figcaption>sun drowned · 20:08</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="05_sun-gone.svg"><figcaption>sun gone · 20:31</figcaption></figure></div>
+<div class="grid"><figure><img src="01_sun-above.svg"><figcaption>sun above · 19:04</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="02_sun-touching.svg"><figcaption>sun touching · 19:26</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="03_sun-half.svg"><figcaption>sun half · 19:47</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="04_sun-drowned.svg"><figcaption>sun drowned · 20:08</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="05_sun-gone.svg"><figcaption>sun gone · 20:31</figcaption></figure></div>
+</body></html>

fable/REFINED_Backlit2/index.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>REFINED_Backlit2 · sun-above scale studies</title>
+<style>body{margin:0;background:#0b0b0b;color:#bbb;font:12px/1.5 ui-monospace,monospace;padding:26px}
+h1{font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.22em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:13px;color:#d9b48a}
+.row{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:12px;margin-top:16px}
+figure{margin:0;background:#fff;overflow:hidden}img{width:100%;display:block}
+figcaption{padding:6px 8px;color:#e8e4d8;background:#111;font-size:11px}</style></head><body>
+<h1>Sun-above — scale studies (colours &amp; composition held)</h1>
+<div class="row"><figure><img src="00_reference.svg"><figcaption>reference — baseline (traces 1.0 · rows 46 · overlap 1.9 · line ×1)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="01_traces-bold.svg"><figcaption>traces-bold — evidence enlarged (bubble size 1.6, density 0.9)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="02_traces-fine.svg"><figcaption>traces-fine — evidence miniaturised (size 0.62, density 1.3)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="03_sea-broad.svg"><figcaption>sea-broad — few broad swells (rows 26)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="04_sea-fine.svg"><figcaption>sea-fine — fine ripple (rows 78, line ×0.75)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="05_sea-deep.svg"><figcaption>sea-deep — deep undulation (overlap 3.1)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="06_sea-etched.svg"><figcaption>sea-etched — heavy wave line (line ×2.3)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="07_giant-evidence.svg"><figcaption>giant-evidence — large ink over fine calm water (size 1.7 · rows 78 · line ×0.7 · overlap 1.6)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="08_woodcut.svg"><figcaption>woodcut — small ink in a heavy carved sea (size 0.7 · rows 24 · line ×2.4 · overlap 2.6)</figcaption></figure></div>
+</body></html>

fable/REFINED_Backlit3/index.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>REFINED_Backlit3 · bold large-trace studies</title>
+<style>body{margin:0;background:#0b0b0b;color:#bbb;font:12px/1.5 ui-monospace,monospace;padding:26px}
+h1{font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.22em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:13px;color:#d9b48a}
+.row{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:12px;margin-top:16px}
+figure{margin:0;background:#fff;overflow:hidden}img{width:100%;display:block}
+figcaption{padding:6px 8px;color:#e8e4d8;background:#111;font-size:11px}</style></head><body>
+<h1>Sun-above — bold, large traces on top · waves varied · sun faded back</h1>
+<div class="row"><figure><img src="00_bold-base.svg"><figcaption>bold-base — large ink · sea baseline (rows 40 · overlap 2.2 · line ×1.35)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="01_broad-swell.svg"><figcaption>broad-swell — few broad swells (rows 24 · overlap 2.6)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="02_fine-ripple.svg"><figcaption>fine-ripple — dense fine ripple (rows 82 · line ×0.9)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="03_deep-heave.svg"><figcaption>deep-heave — deep undulation (overlap 3.4)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="04_etched-sea.svg"><figcaption>etched-sea — heavy carved wave line (line ×2.6)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="05_glassy-calm.svg"><figcaption>glassy-calm — shallow glassy water (overlap 1.3 · rows 52)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="06_turbulent.svg"><figcaption>turbulent — turbulent, blip-rich sea (chaos 1.0 · blips 2.2 · overlap 2.8)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="07_woodcut.svg"><figcaption>woodcut — heavy carved swell (rows 26 · line ×2.8 · overlap 3.0)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="08_giant-ink-calm.svg"><figcaption>giant-ink-calm — giant evidence over quiet fine water (size 1.9 · rows 78 · line ×0.8 · overlap 1.5)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="09_max-bold.svg"><figcaption>max-bold — everything loud (size 1.8 · rows 32 · line ×2.4 · overlap 3.0 · chaos 0.95)</figcaption></figure></div>
+</body></html>

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+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>REFINED_Backlit4 · golden</title>
+<style>body{margin:0;background:#0b0b0b;color:#bbb;font:12px/1.5 ui-monospace,monospace;padding:26px}
+h1{font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.22em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:13px;color:#d9b48a}
+.row{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr);gap:14px;margin-top:16px}
+figure{margin:0;background:#fff;overflow:hidden}img{width:100%;display:block}
+figcaption{padding:6px 8px;color:#e8e4d8;background:#111;font-size:11px}</style></head><body>
+<h1>One sun setting — golden (1001×1620, φ)</h1>
+<div class="row"><figure><img src="00_golden.svg"><figcaption>00_golden</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="01_golden.svg"><figcaption>01_golden</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="02_golden.svg"><figcaption>02_golden</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="03_golden-mirror.svg"><figcaption>03_golden-mirror</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="04_golden-mirror.svg"><figcaption>04_golden-mirror</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="05_golden-mirror.svg"><figcaption>05_golden-mirror</figcaption></figure></div>
+</body></html>

fable/REFINED_Backlit5/index.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>REFINED_Backlit5 · golden · delicate bubbles</title>
+<style>body{margin:0;background:#0b0b0b;color:#bbb;font:12px/1.5 ui-monospace,monospace;padding:26px}
+h1{font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.22em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:13px;color:#d9b48a}
+.row{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr);gap:14px;margin-top:16px}
+figure{margin:0;background:#fff;overflow:hidden}img{width:100%;display:block}
+figcaption{padding:6px 8px;color:#e8e4d8;background:#111;font-size:11px}</style></head><body>
+<h1>One sun setting — golden (1001×1620, φ)</h1>
+<div class="row"><figure><img src="00_golden.svg"><figcaption>00_golden</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="01_golden.svg"><figcaption>01_golden</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="02_golden.svg"><figcaption>02_golden</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="03_golden-mirror.svg"><figcaption>03_golden-mirror</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="04_golden-mirror.svg"><figcaption>04_golden-mirror</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="05_golden-mirror.svg"><figcaption>05_golden-mirror</figcaption></figure></div>
+</body></html>

fable/REFINED_Backlit6/index.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>REFINED_Backlit6 · bubble-opacity sweep</title>
+<style>body{margin:0;background:#0b0b0b;color:#bbb;font:12px/1.5 ui-monospace,monospace;padding:26px}
+h1{font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.22em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:13px;color:#d9b48a}
+.row{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:14px;margin-top:16px}
+figure{margin:0;background:#fff;overflow:hidden}img{width:100%;display:block}
+figcaption{padding:6px 8px;color:#e8e4d8;background:#111;font-size:11px}</style></head><body>
+<h1>One sun setting — bubble-opacity sweep 20→80% (1001×1620, φ)</h1>
+<div class="row"><figure><img src="op-20.svg"><figcaption>op-20</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="op-32.svg"><figcaption>op-32</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="op-44.svg"><figcaption>op-44</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="op-56.svg"><figcaption>op-56</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="op-68.svg"><figcaption>op-68</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="op-80.svg"><figcaption>op-80</figcaption></figure></div>
+</body></html>

fable/REFINED_Backlit7/index.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>REFINED_Backlit6 · bubble-opacity sweep</title>
+<style>body{margin:0;background:#0b0b0b;color:#bbb;font:12px/1.5 ui-monospace,monospace;padding:26px}
+h1{font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.22em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:13px;color:#d9b48a}
+.row{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:14px;margin-top:16px}
+figure{margin:0;background:#fff;overflow:hidden}img{width:100%;display:block}
+figcaption{padding:6px 8px;color:#e8e4d8;background:#111;font-size:11px}</style></head><body>
+<h1>One sun setting — merge · uniform-lace target sweep (1854×3000, φ)</h1>
+<div class="row"><figure><img src="merge-35.svg"><figcaption>merge-35</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="merge-45.svg"><figcaption>merge-45</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="merge-55.svg"><figcaption>merge-55</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="merge-65.svg"><figcaption>merge-65</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="merge-75.svg"><figcaption>merge-75</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="merge-85.svg"><figcaption>merge-85</figcaption></figure></div>
+</body></html>

fable/stack/SPEC.md

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+# The Chamber as a Volume — acrylic stack spec & depth design
+
+A backlit, six-plane physical piece for the eufyMake E1: three acrylic sheets,
+printed front **and** back, spaced with air gaps over an LED panel. This is
+roadmap Phase 3 made literal — the scene model's per-track `z` and `age` stop
+being opacity tricks and become actual millimetres.
+
+## Physical stack (proposed — buy list at bottom)
+
+```
+viewer
+  ─ C-front   the hand: grease pencil, réseau, fiducials, header, scratches
+  ═ sheet C   3 mm clear cast acrylic
+  ─ C-back    near scatter: δ-ray curls, close cosmics
+      ~6 mm air gap
+  ─ B-front   THE EVENT: sharp beaded track cores
+  ═ sheet B   3 mm
+  ─ B-back    halation: the same tracks, blurred — real glow-behind-the-line
+      ~6 mm air gap
+  ─ A-front   history: older background events, sinking
+  ═ sheet A   3 mm
+  ─ A-back    the cause: pressure disk (CMYK-only → pure glow) + chamber optics
+      ~12 mm gap
+  ▤ diffuser  frosted acrylic 2–3 mm (kills LED hotspots)
+  ▦ LED panel A3 slim light pad
+```
+
+Plane depths (A-back = 0): 0 / 3 / 9 / 12 / 18 / 21 mm — two depth scales:
+3 mm *within* a sheet (fine parallax: halation, moiré) and 9 mm *between*
+sheets (coarse parallax: cause → event → hand).
+
+**The depth story is causal, not just spatial**: deepest plane is the cause
+(the pressure wave, pure transmitted light), then history, then the halation,
+then the event itself, then the debris flying toward you, and finally — on the
+front glass, where scanners actually wrote — the human hand measuring it all.
+Parallax reads as *interpretation floating above evidence*.
+
+## Sheet & print geometry
+
+- Sheet: 330 × 420 mm (E1 full bed, A3+), portrait. 3 mm clear cast acrylic,
+  gloss both faces.
+- Art square: 300 × 300 mm, centred horizontally (15 mm margins), top edge at
+  y = 20 mm. Zone below (y = 320–420) carries film furniture / data box /
+  caption on C-front only; other sheets stay clear there (light spills through
+  — the plate floats in a lit void).
+- Corner mounting holes 5 mm ∅ at 8 mm insets, all sheets + diffuser, for M4
+  nylon standoffs (3 mm + 6 mm + 6 mm spacer stacking, or threaded rod with
+  nuts as spacers).
+- Registration: every plane file carries corner crosses at the same four
+  coordinates just outside the art square; back-face files are **mirrored** at
+  export so they read correctly through the sheet.
+
+## White-ink logic (backlit grammar)
+
+| zone | channels | lit result |
+|---|---|---|
+| clear acrylic | none | pure light |
+| glow elements (disk, halation, deep tracks) | CMYK only | stained-glass — light pours through colour |
+| focal ink (event cores, grease pencil, furniture) | CMYK + white underlay | holds density against the panel — reads as ink |
+| blocking (none in v1) | white + black | opaque |
+
+Rule of thumb: **depth = transparency**. The deeper the plane, the less white
+ink; the front glass is the most "solid" ink. The disk gets *zero* white — lit,
+it becomes a light source (the laser-interference reference lives here, later).
+
+## Pipeline
+
+```
+plan (fable/stack/plans/*.mjs)
+  → node tools/stack-render.mjs <plan>          per-plane SVGs + manifest.json
+  → fable/stack/simulator.html?c=<id>           parallax + backlight art-direction
+  → [next] tools/stack-export.mjs               print masters: mirrored backs,
+                                                white-ink masks, A3 layout @ true scale
+```
+
+`src/render/stack.js` splits one generated scene into per-plane sub-scenes
+(selectors: track kind / z band / age band; disk, optics, damage, media,
+fiducials, header as flags) and renders each through the untouched `renderSVG`
+with `transparentPaper`. Bloom/core pairs use the *same* track selector so
+bubble positions are identical on both faces (same filtered list → same salted
+draws) — keep `density`/`size` equal within a pair.
+
+Per-plane renders set `depth`/`aging` low: the physical stack now *is* the
+depth model; double-encoding it as opacity would fight the medium.
+
+## Calibration coupon (print before the hero)
+
+One A5 sheet, double-sided: white-ink step wedge (0/25/50/75/100%, single +
+double pass) · the same δ-ray at three white levels · CMYK-only vs CMYK+white
+swatch pair · front/back registration cross · 6 pt / 8 pt mono type both faces.
+Judge **lit on the panel**, not in hand.
+
+## Buy list (if starting from zero)
+
+- 3× cast clear acrylic 330 × 420 × 3 mm (+1 spare), protective film both sides
+- 1× frosted/opal acrylic 330 × 420 × 2–3 mm (diffuser)
+- A3 slim LED light panel (dimmable if possible)
+- M4 nylon standoff kit (assorted 3/6/12 mm) or 4× M4 threaded rod + nuts
+- IPA + lint-free cloths; adhesion promoter if the E1 profile recommends it

fable/stack/candidates/01-event-volume/manifest.json

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+{
+  "id": "01-event-volume",
+  "title": "The Event, Suspended",
+  "seed": "LAMBDA-2648",
+  "geometry": {
+    "thickness": 3,
+    "gap": 6
+  },
+  "planes": [
+    {
+      "file": "plane-00-A-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "A",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 0,
+      "label": "the cause — disk body + chamber optics"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-01-A-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "A",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 0,
+      "label": "the cause — disk granular texture"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-02-A-front.svg",
+      "sheet": "A",
+      "face": "front",
+      "zmm": 3,
+      "label": "history — older events sink"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-03-B-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "B",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 9,
+      "label": "halation — the trigger blooms behind itself"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-04-B-front.svg",
+      "sheet": "B",
+      "face": "front",
+      "zmm": 12,
+      "label": "the event — sharp beaded cores"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-05-C-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "C",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 18,
+      "label": "near scatter — δ-curls lift toward the eye"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-06-C-front.svg",
+      "sheet": "C",
+      "face": "front",
+      "zmm": 21,
+      "label": "the hand — grease pencil on the glass"
+    }
+  ]
+}

fable/stack/candidates/02-palimpsest/manifest.json

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+{
+  "id": "02-palimpsest",
+  "title": "Palimpsest",
+  "seed": "KAON-0088",
+  "geometry": {
+    "thickness": 3,
+    "gap": 6
+  },
+  "planes": [
+    {
+      "file": "plane-00-A-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "A",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 0,
+      "label": "deep time — oldest exposures + the chamber"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-01-A-front.svg",
+      "sheet": "A",
+      "face": "front",
+      "zmm": 3,
+      "label": "earlier cycle"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-02-B-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "B",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 9,
+      "label": "moments ago"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-03-B-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "B",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 9,
+      "label": "the pressure wave — body + texture"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-04-B-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "B",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 9,
+      "label": "pressure-wave grain"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-05-B-front.svg",
+      "sheet": "B",
+      "face": "front",
+      "zmm": 12,
+      "label": "NOW — the trigger, all kinds, sharp"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-06-C-back.svg",
+      "sheet": "C",
+      "face": "back",
+      "zmm": 18,
+      "label": "still in flight — δ-debris of now"
+    },
+    {
+      "file": "plane-07-C-front.svg",
+      "sheet": "C",
+      "face": "front",
+      "zmm": 21,
+      "label": "after — the hand, the furniture, the wear"
+    }
+  ]
+}

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