Plan for the approved design at
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-27-scrub-driven-altitude-transitions-design.md.
Two phases: (1) scrub interaction against current morphs, (2) all-intra re-bake.
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The curated clip bases, per-scale audio, and 154 baked altitude morphs are the
actual experience content, so they're committed via git-LFS (self-hosted Gitea
LFS store). coast_birdrock/base.mp4 was re-encoded 68MB->22MB (25Mbps->8Mbps,
1080p30 unchanged) to fit the git.benstull.org front-end nginx upload limit; its
16 morphs were re-baked. Stale right_variants stay gitignored. Adds .gitattributes
(LFS) and negates the used media back into git in .gitignore. Also records the
LFS media-graduation decision in the plan doc.
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Choose the destination clip before transitioning, play the matching
member->member morph (154 clips, all adjacent video pairs, both
directions), chain through each crossed altitude, and lock the clip
until the altitude is changed (no secondary swap, no re-roll).
Session 0024 (writing-plans). Stops at the review gate.
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Session 0020. Anchored on the audio-video-separated-controls Solution Design.
Scope: build into the current single-page simulator (simulator-first directive);
reframe the unbuilt control-surface spec on paper. 10 tasks, all testing tiers.
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Bite-sized TDD plan for Increment 1 (real footage, no ML): the deterministic
tools/pipeline/ package (frame → crossfade-loop → master+proxy transcode →
manifest assembly, pure ffmpeg arg builders unit-tested + an opt-in integration
test on the real forest POC base), the backward-compatible keyframed annotation
track schema with client-side interpolation, and the 5-scale ring (orbit + reef).
9 tasks. Implements spec §3 (stages 1–4,6), §4, §5, §6, §7, and §8 Increment 1.
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Add scale-ring navigation to the simulator per the scales-library design §3:
an endless rotary-encoder control (relative, vs the absolute 0-4 experience
knobs) walks a closed ring of neutral "scales of nature" clips, with placeholder
AI zoom/warp transitions between adjacent scales and a small->large wrap (the
infinite-zoom payoff).
- player/ring.py (new, canonical pure logic): ScaleRing + advance_ring; one
transition clip per edge, played forward zooming inward / reversed outward;
modulo wrap both ways; chained steps for a multi-detent spin. Mirrors
player/content.py conventions (frozen dataclasses, pure functions).
- simulator: load_ring + ring_to_dict/ring_move_to_dict; GET /api/ring and
POST /api/ring/advance (Python owns step/wrap/transition math; the browser
only plays the returned transition(s) then settles on the target scale).
- frontend: endless-encoder control (zoom in/out buttons + stage scroll),
current-scale readout, multi-clip active-scale selection, transition playback.
- media: two cheap true-PD scales so the ring is demonstrable -- cosmos
(NASA/Hubble) + abyss (NOAA Ocean Exploration), provenance recorded in the
manifest, bytes generated as labelled placeholders by setup_scales_media.py.
The expensive multi-strength flow-stabilized Right re-bake is DEFERRED (new
scales carry a raw base only) until the ring is liked; Pi renderer +
serial/firmware remain deferred (simulator-first).
- docs: ROADMAP slice-3 done; USER_GUIDE scale-ring gesture; plan doc.
Verified: pytest 215 passed / 2 skipped (+22 new); sim boots, /api/ring +
/api/ring/advance correct incl. wrap, media served, and a headless-Chrome CDP
drive walked cosmos -> forest -> abyss -> (wrap) -> cosmos with the active clip
reloading correctly.
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-07-scales-library-and-right-axis-pipeline-design.md (§3)
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-07-scale-ring-navigation.md
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