Expanded-pools sky-scale work plus two experience tweaks:
- New `sky` altitude (airplane-window / low-flight layer) between orbit and
coast; RING_ORDER cosmos·orbit·sky·coast·reef·abyss. New clip pools across
all scales, re-baked the full adjacent-pair morph set (all-intra, LFS), and
removed the now-stale cosmos↔abyss transitions the old ring order produced.
- Auto-start: once the preload finishes the experience turns Video on and
raises the audio dial to 3/10 with no user gesture (app.js autoStart()).
- Dropped reef_hawaiian (text overlay — violates the text-free pool rule);
reef pool 7→6, manifest transitions 586→558.
Tests: rewrote tests/test_e2e_audio.py for the dial UI + auto-start; updated
the manifest morph-count assertions and the altitude-scrub target for the new
ring order. 302 pytest + 11 Playwright e2e + 9 node unit all green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator wanted more Cosmic Cliffs footage and a different-color rendering.
Keeps the NIRCam flythrough as the cosmos primary and adds ESA/Webb weic2205c
("Pan of the Carina Nebula, combined NIRCam + MIRI") as a new cosmos pool
member — the same Carina towers in the muted gray/teal/gold MIRI mid-infrared
palette, distinct from the iconic orange/blue flythrough.
- POOLS["cosmos"] grows 4 -> 5 (cosmos, cosmos_miri, galaxies, hudf, xdf);
primary unchanged.
- META + LABELS authored (nebula/star/distance, salience-gated); affect inherits
the cosmos scale vocabulary.
- manifest.json regenerated (19 -> 20 clips).
- Source: 4K master, text-free/human-free, trim 4-26s (clears the fade-from-
black), 1 s crossfade-loop (~21 s) -> 1080p base + 4K master (gitignored).
- docs/content-candidate-pool.md updated (cosmos pool of 5 + sourcing note).
271 passed, 2 skipped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator found the Orion SVS 30957 flythrough merely good and asked for a more
dramatic nebula. Replaces the cosmos-scale primary with STScI's "Exploring the
Cosmic Cliffs in 3D" (Carina Nebula, Webb NIRCam — NASA SVS 31348), sourced from
its 4K master (Clifs-3d-STScI.mp4, 3840x2160) via the content pipeline:
trim 10-34s (clears the title card ~8s and end-credit card ~102s) + crossfade-loop
-> 4K master + supersampled 1080p base (5.5 Mbps, crisper than the old 2.9 Mbps
1080p-native Orion encode).
- build_pool_manifest META: cosmos -> SVS 31348 Cosmic Cliffs, new CCBY_WEBB
credit (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI). Labels retuned for the Carina framing
(emission nebula / protostar; redshift -> distance ~7,500 ly).
- Regenerated manifest.json (also corrects stale JPL-Orion provenance left when
129bb23 updated META but not the manifest) + all ring-edge transitions from the
new base (cosmos-orbit / abyss-cosmos now zoom from the Cosmic Cliffs).
- docs/content-candidate-pool.md: record the swap + history.
269 passed, 2 skipped. New base verified text-free + full-frame by-eye across the
loop; final look to be confirmed by the operator (no Chrome on the box).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the JPL "Orion: Dust and Death" primary (captioned throughout — we'd
cropped it, losing framing) with STScI's "Flight Through the Orion Nebula"
(visible light, NASA SVS 30957) — a full-frame, text-free flythrough of the same
nebula. Sourced via the content pipeline (trim 10–34s + crossfade-loop → 1080p
master + base); cosmos-orbit / abyss-cosmos transitions regenerated from it.
- build_pool_manifest META: cosmos -> SVS 30957, license CC-BY-class (NASA/ESA/
STScI), new trim window.
- Remove the now-obsolete decaption_cosmos() crop helper (the new source needs
no caption removal).
- docs/content-candidate-pool.md: record the source swap; drop the crop note.
269 passed, 2 skipped. New clip verified text-free + full-frame by-eye;
final look to be confirmed by the operator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cosmos primary is NASA/JPL's "Orion: Dust and Death" — an annotated
visualization with lower-third captions ("DUST FILAMENT", "BLUE BUBBLE", …)
burned in throughout, so trimming can't avoid them (only ~4s of our window is
caption-free). The candidate-pool doc wrongly called it text-free.
- build_pool_manifest.decaption_cosmos(): crops the cosmos base/master to the
top 66% of frame height (16:9 preserved, center-x, ~1.5x tighter framing),
re-fit to 1920x1080 — the recorded, reproducible form of the fix (media is
gitignored). Applied in place; re-ran generate_media() so the cosmos-orbit /
abyss-cosmos transitions use the cropped base.
- docs/content-candidate-pool.md: correct the "text-free" note; document the crop.
269 passed, 2 skipped. De-caption verified by-eye on both caption moments;
final look to be confirmed by the operator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Content-pipeline Increment 2, part 1 (the experience). Implements design §11
(docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-24-content-pipeline-design.md):
- Rotating pool (§11.1): each ring scale references a POOL of vetted clips
(docs/content-candidate-pool.md); the player picks a random member on landing.
player.ring.Scale gains `pool` + pure `pick_clip_id(scale, r)` (injected
randomness); the pick happens at the API boundary (random.random()), a delta=0
advance is the initial/re-roll pick. clips.py parses/exposes the pool; the
client lands on move.target_clip_id. Back-compat: a scale with only clip_id is
a pool of one.
- Rename ring scale forest -> coast (new land<->sea scale, orbit..reef); ring
order cosmos -> orbit -> coast -> reef -> abyss -> wrap. Cleanup: dropped the
leftover local media (cosmos_traverse, orbit_westcoast, old forest/reef, the
Increment-1 orbit/abyss single bases); new coast-edge transition placeholders.
- Time-windowed tracked labels (§11.2): annotations gain appear/disappear
(loop-normalized, wraps across the seam); a label shows only while on screen
and its box tracks the subject. abyss + reef pools authored as test material.
- Progressive LEFT detail tiers (§11.3): per-object `salience` (first shows at
Left 5-salience) + tiered strings (general -> specific -> scientific -> +fact)
escalating with the Left knob; replaces flat min_level gating. Strings may be a
tier list or a static string (back-compat). No engine change (client reads
overlay.level).
- Progressive RIGHT emotion tiers (§11.4): affect vocabulary escalates basic ->
compound with the Right knob (dream.strength); appearance still gated by
min(left,right). No engine change.
New simulator/build_pool_manifest.py holds the hand-authored content and emits
the 19-clip pool manifest (the reproducible baseline). setup_scales_media.py
marked superseded. 251 passed / 4 skipped (+ ring pool + API pool/window tests).
By-eye visual review deferred to the operator (no Chrome on this box).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records the 5-scale rotating clip pools the operator selected + vetted from the
candidate gallery (19 clips: cosmos 4, orbit 3, coast 4, reef 5, abyss 3), each
strict-PD/CC-BY-class, word-free, human-free, with source URL + trim window so
they are re-sourceable (media stays gitignored). Captures: the rotating-pool model
(random clip per scale on ring landing), the forest→coast rename, the cosmos
#3-Orion vs #6-Traverse processing mix-up to fix, and the rejected/leftover clips
to clean up. Feeds the next session (Increment 2 expanded: pool wiring + tracked
progressive labels + progressive emotions).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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