Affect was authored per SCALE — every clip in an altitude shared the same 4
emotion words. Now every clip carries its OWN feelings, read from that specific
footage (mood, motion, light), so e.g. the violent Tarantula nebula evokes "a
violent ferment" while the dying-star Southern Ring evokes "a star's slow dying /
a luminous farewell," and a drowsing seal haul-out evokes "a sun-warmed drowse."
Adds AFFECT_CLIP (per-clip override; falls back to the scale register) covering
all 41 clips — 41 distinct feeling-sets, one per clip. Keeps each scale's
emotional family as a base and swaps in 1-2 footage-specific feelings, reusing the
existing feel.* palette where it fits and adding 19 new nuance keys (sublime,
tenderness, turbulence, radiance, mortality, poignancy, eeriness, purity,
solitude, verdancy, freshness, repose, hush, poise, flow, intricacy, spectral,
alienness, strangeness) with full es/fr/ja. 42 distinct feeling keys now in use.
Drafted by viewing each clip's footage (per-scale passes); first-pass reads that
want operator by-eye review. Data-only (build_pool_manifest.py + manifest + i18n
catalogs). Verified: 34/34 catalog+i18n+build pytest, 16/16 node unit, 4-language
parity for every clip, live render shows distinct feelings per clip (incl. new
keys) with Think/Feel overlap still 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every clip now carries at least 3 factual LEFT annotations to match the 4 RIGHT
(Feel) affect words — fixes the "many clips missing Think labels" asymmetry
(right read "everywhere", left felt sparse). Adds one researched factual label to
each of the 23 thin clips (orbit_bluemarble had only 1; 22 had 2), with full
es/fr/ja parity via the catalogs, and converts the 4 still-static abyss creature
subjects (octopus, bigfin squid, dandelion siphonophore, sea pig) from fixed
boxes to 3-keyframe motion-tracked labels (tracked clips 7 -> 11).
Boxes/tracks are a first pass sampled by eye from base footage (t=0.05/0.5/0.95);
they want operator by-eye review in author mode to fine-tune positions. Remaining
static clips are landscapes (correctly static) plus 2 diffuse fish schools and 2
surface-animal scenes, available for author-mode tracking if wanted.
Data-only change (build_pool_manifest.py LABELS + manifest + i18n catalogs); no
app/engine code touched. Verified: 43/43 manifest+catalog+i18n pytest, 16/16 node
unit, live render shows 3 chips/clip in all 4 languages with no JS errors. (The 3
failing pytest are pre-existing cv2/ffmpeg-absent env limits, unrelated.)
Note: the reported "audio not playing" was a false alarm — exhaustive repro
(Chromium+WebKit, strict autoplay, both servers, RMS-verified non-silent files)
found the audio engine correct; the operator's Safari output was muted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every rotating-pool clip shipped with right-brain `affect` (auto-generated per
scale by _affect_for_clip) but only 13 carried LEFT-brain factual `LABELS`. The
other 28 rendered with no detected.*/measure.* labels at any Left knob level.
Authors static tiered labels (general → specific → scientific → +fact) for all
28 — 5 cosmos, 4 orbit, 8 sky, 5 coast, 2 reef, 4 abyss — in build_pool_manifest.py
following the existing static_label pattern, plus their es/fr/ja translations in
tools/i18n/catalogs (binomials/measurements kept verbatim; units localized per
each catalog's convention). Rebuilds the manifest and merges all four languages.
Result: 41/41 clips now have left+right annotations with full en/es/fr/ja parity.
Labels are static (footage not eyeballed); the abyss/reef creature clips could
later be upgraded to tracked labels via author mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
41 clips, 753 string-variants per language, structure-validated (key-sets
and tier-counts identical to en). Escalation semantics preserved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pure arg builders (audio_ops) + thin runner (audio_run) + build_audio_media.py.
Produces the 5 normalized soundtrack loops + a synthesized pink-noise bed under
the gitignored sample_media/audio tree. 6 tests pass (white-noise integration
runs against bundled imageio_ffmpeg).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Content-pipeline Increment 2, part 2 (the tooling). Implements design §11.5
(docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-24-content-pipeline-design.md):
- tools/pipeline/track.py — the stage-5 geometry pass. Classical path: a
hand-seeded normalized box propagated by OpenCV Lucas-Kanade optical flow
(CSRT used instead when a contrib build provides it), sampled to a SPARSE
loop-normalized keyframed track + an appear/disappear window. Optional ML
detect+track path lazy-imports ultralytics (clear ImportError if absent;
base install needs only cv2). Pure helpers (normalize/denormalize, loop_t,
infer_window, sample_track, track_to_annotation) are unit-tested; the cv2
propagation is an opt-in integration test on real abyss_wow footage.
Semantics are never produced here — geometry only.
- Author mode — /author.html + author.js/.css reuse the preview stage: pick a
pool clip, scrub, drag a seed box, Run tracker (or Add as static box), author
the LEFT detail tiers (general -> scientific+fact) + salience, shift-click to
place affect anchors with RIGHT emotion tiers, and Save to manifest. Backend:
POST /api/author/track (runs track_seed on the clip's base) + POST
/api/author/clip (idempotent upsert via tools.pipeline.manifest — keeps media
+ provenance, replaces only authored content, reloads in place). The tracker
propagates box geometry; all strings/scientific names/facts are hand-typed.
- Repointed the pipeline integration test off the retired forest base to the
cosmos pool primary. USER_GUIDE simulator section brought current (pools,
coast, 3-knob Mood, real-time dream, progressive tiers, author mode).
267 passed / 2 skipped (+ track pure + opt-in real-footage + author endpoint
tests). Author UI by-eye review deferred to the operator (no Chrome on this box).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- run.py: add resolve_ffmpeg() mirroring setup_scales_media.py; change
process_clip ff param to None and resolve at call time
- test_pipeline_integration.py: gate on resolve_ffmpeg() not PATH ffmpeg;
verify proxy dims with cv2 instead of ffprobe
- ffmpeg_ops.py: add fps= to trim segments in crossfade_loop_args so xfade
receives CFR input (xfade rejects 1/0 rate from raw trim output)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 12 / spec §8.2. Walks proposed records (fields +
coords + rationale + best-effort ffmpeg preview), prompts accept/edit/skip/quit,
and persists each approval via save_catalog rewrite. I/O seams (input_fn/now_fn/
out) and --no-preview make the walk testable hermetically; decision logic lives
in the tested review core.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 11 / spec §8.1. proposed_records filter and approve()
return an approved copy via dataclasses.replace (no in-place mutation), with
optional coordinate/rationale override and an injected reviewed_at timestamp.
Pure, no I/O, no clock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 9 / spec §6.4. Three keyless first-ship fetchers
parse documented JSON APIs via an injected HttpClient; license/attribution go
through tools.licensing; NASA third-party + IA no-license cases are flagged in
notes for review. musopen/fma/freesound are explicit deferred stubs raising
NotImplementedError; freesound documents FREESOUND_API_TOKEN (secret, env-only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 8 / spec §6. ingest_candidate dedupes, downloads,
mechanically tags, drafts coordinates, builds a proposed Record and appends it;
ingest_search loops over fetcher hits. All boundaries (download/prober/color_fn)
injectable, so the pipeline is fully hermetic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 7 / spec §7. HeuristicProposer seeds the brain plane
from archive priors and the mood plane from title/description keyword nudges,
clamps to 0..4, and emits a one-line rationale. Deterministic, no I/O, no ML
(honors design §11) — only a DRAFT a human reviews.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 6 / spec §5.3. normalize_license maps CC URLs /
identifiers and public-domain markers to the LICENSES vocab, builds non-empty
attribution for cc_by/cc_by_nc, and rejects unmappable licenses at ingest.
librivox_license() helper returns public_domain.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 5 / spec §5.2. ffmpeg-only dominant color (no image
library), opt-in by design; extract_frame for review previews. Runners injectable
so the unit suite never shells out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 4 / spec §5.1. derive_tags(Probe) -> Tags with the
attached_pic cover-art guard so an art-bearing audio file stays mode=audio.
Duration falls back to the longest stream when format.duration is absent, and
rounds half-up so 12.5s -> 13s (Python's round() would give 12 via banker's
rounding) to match the spec's stated behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 3 / spec §5.1. Parses ffprobe JSON into a Probe
(streams + format); subprocess runner injectable so tests never shell out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 1. Adds tools/ to setuptools packages,
gitignores media/, and a minimal injectable urllib HTTP client.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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