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Dejvino 1ca9fa2f1f Let scenes layer on each other, and give the camera somewhere to look
Two devices that were built, wired up, and doing nothing.

OVERLAYS. buildStack gated layering on `surfaceOf(m) === 'composable'`, and
no scene in the library declared `surface` — so the only thing that could ever
sit on top was the one scene declaring `role: 'accent'`, and the overlay roster
excluded accents by construction. Empty intersection, every time: 0/144 stacks
carried an overlay. Every layered frame in every song was the same particle
field.

Labelled the library from the phase 12 coverage gate rather than by eye: the
37 scenes painting under 30% of the frame are composable. Particle Field loses
its privileged slot and becomes one of them, keeping only `background: false`,
which is the honest part — points in empty space cannot carry a section alone.
The reserved accent slot is gone; one roster, two passes at it. 1 distinct
overlay scene becomes 27, and the rate lands at 34% of stacks after trimming a
base chance that had been tuned while the branch was dead.

THE CAMERA. framing.shift moved the frame by a median of 0.029 of a half-frame
at a fresh random angle every shot, so successive offsets cancelled and the
median jump at a cut was 0.014. Present in every frame, visible in none.

look/Camera.js is the director's camera department: the story says tension,
order and which act a section is in, and this turns that into where the frame
looks and how it travels there. Each director names a camera. Jump distance
follows tension and act, speed follows energy, and the curve is one of four.
Cuts choose between reframing and matching, so two scenes can still read as one
place. Median offset 0.190, median reframe 0.135, and 94% of shots now move
during the shot rather than only at the cut.

Four new gates, each with a FLOOR — the device this replaces passed every
existing check while doing nothing, because the only bound was a ceiling.

Also lands the in-progress Epic 4 story layer it builds on: Story.js, phase 13,
and the direction statistic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 06:48:13 +02:00

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<h1>flow-state · debug</h1>
<p class="lede">
Everything here answers a question the app itself cannot. The app shows you
one video; these show you whether the generator is doing its job across
many.
</p>
<h2>Looking at output</h2>
<div class="grid">
<div class="card fast">
<h3><a href="/gallery.html">gallery</a></h3>
<p>Every visualizer, six times, on six different songs' content — cast,
ink, lattice, palette and parameters all varying. Sorted least-varied
first, so the scenes that always look the same come to the top.</p>
<div class="meta">~3 min · the one to open when a scene feels familiar ·
<code>HOWTO-variety.md</code> for how to fix what it finds</div>
</div>
<div class="card">
<h3><a href="/filmstrip.html">filmstrip</a></h3>
<p>Every song in the bank, one frame every 30 seconds, left to right.
The gallery asks whether a scene looks the same in every song; this
asks whether a song looks the same as itself four minutes later.
Scored on <code>direction</code> — whether the distance between two
frames grows with the time between them — so the videos that are busy
and going nowhere sort to the top.</p>
<div class="meta">~6 min, then cached · <a href="/filmstrip.html?every=15">?every=15</a> tighter ·
<a href="/filmstrip.html?song=centre,ember">?song=</a> just these ·
<code>EPIC-4.md</code> for the arc it is checking</div>
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<div class="card fast">
<h3><a href="/">the app</a></h3>
<p>Drop a track and watch it. <code>test/songs/*.wav</code> holds the
synthetic bank if you want something with known properties.</p>
<div class="meta">build the bank with <code>npm run build:songs</code></div>
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<h2>Is it correct?</h2>
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<div class="card fast">
<h3><a href="/checks.html">phase gates</a></h3>
<p>Every acceptance gate in <code>PLAN.md</code>, run for real. This is
the one to check before committing.</p>
<div class="meta">
<a href="/checks.html?slow=1">?slow=1</a> full suite ·
<a href="/checks.html?phase=12">?phase=12</a> one phase
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<div class="card fast">
<h3>single scene</h3>
<p>The whole per-scene battery for one visualizer: renders, animates,
deterministic, distinct, param sweep, flash rate, and every declared
trait and artifact.</p>
<div class="meta"><code>checks.html?scene=Metaballs</code> — the loop you
are in while writing or migrating one</div>
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</div>
<h2>Is it varied?</h2>
<p class="note">
These measure whether two videos differ, which no other gate can see — a
generator that ignores its input passes determinism and liveness perfectly.
<span class="warn">Read the caution below before trusting a single run.</span>
</p>
<div class="grid">
<div class="card slow">
<h3><a href="/checks.html?decompose=1">decompose</a></h3>
<p>Identity against container, measured apart: hold the scene fixed and
vary the song's content, then the reverse. <strong>The most
trustworthy number here</strong> — it compares renders directly, and
its noise floor is exactly zero.</p>
<div class="meta">~1 min</div>
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<div class="card slow">
<h3><a href="/checks.html?songs=1&amp;count=12">song variety</a></h3>
<p>Twelve songs from the bank, each with its own audio-derived seed. Also
reports coupling — whether songs that <em>sound</em> different come
out <em>looking</em> different, which is still unsolved.</p>
<div class="meta">~2 min · <a href="/checks.html?variety=1">?variety=1</a>
for the seed version, one song and many seeds</div>
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<div class="card slow">
<h3><a href="/checks.html?experiment=1&amp;count=12&amp;repeats=3">arms, with error bars</a></h3>
<p>Three pools compared over repeated runs. The template for any A/B
here: it prints the difference against its own noise band and says
outright when the two are indistinguishable.</p>
<div class="meta">~5 min</div>
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<div class="card slow">
<h3><a href="/checks.html?sweep=1&amp;count=12&amp;sizes=4,8,16,32&amp;repeats=3">pool sweep</a></h3>
<p>How many scenes a track should draw on. Swept rather than guessed —
and the answer turned out to be that it does not matter between 4 and
32.</p>
<div class="meta">~5 min</div>
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<h2>Command line</h2>
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<h3>migration status</h3>
<p>Which scenes draw the song's content, which still draw their own, and
what each remaining one needs. Recipe in <code>MIGRATION.md</code>.</p>
<pre>node tools/migration-status.js</pre>
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<div class="card cli">
<h3>cast census</h3>
<p>Which visualizers actually get cast, across songs and seeds — and for
the ones that do not, which of the four gates killed them.</p>
<pre>node tools/cast-census.js 12 40</pre>
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<div class="card cli">
<h3>identity census</h3>
<p>How far apart the songs' identities are before anything is rendered.
No GPU. Run this before blaming the visualizers.</p>
<pre>node tools/identity-census.js 12</pre>
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<div class="card cli">
<h3>song bank</h3>
<p>Rebuild the test songs and verify they still span every feature the
generator reads. Fails loudly if an axis has collapsed.</p>
<pre>npm run build:songs
npm run check:songs</pre>
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<div class="card cli">
<h3>static gates</h3>
<p>Determinism grep, schema/shader agreement both ways, and the backtick
check that guards the shader template literals.</p>
<pre>npm run lint:scenes
npm test</pre>
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<h2>Reading the variety numbers</h2>
<p class="note">
This harness has two classes of measurement and only one of them is safe to
steer by. <strong>Direct render comparisons</strong> — the gallery score,
<code>decompose</code>, the per-scene gate — have a noise floor of zero and
mean what they say. <strong>Aggregate ratios</strong> — chiefly
<code>separation</code>, which divides one small difference by another —
swing wildly between runs: three runs of the same measurement gave 0.31,
0.56 and 0.07. Four conclusions were drawn and withdrawn during this epic
for exactly that reason. Anything under about 0.01 of spread needs
<code>&amp;repeats=3</code> before it is believed, and a difference that
changes sign with the sample is not a difference.
</p>
<h2>If a page is dead</h2>
<p class="note">
A module that fails to load takes the whole graph with it: the page renders,
every control is present, and nothing is wired to anything. The app carries a
boot guard that says so. The usual causes are a content blocker — a file
named like tracking will be treated as tracking, which cost this project a
session over a file called <code>clicktrack.js</code> — or a dev server
caught mid-restart.
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