Boot becomes ready on the first clip and streams the rest in the background
(was: blocked on the full ~2.3 GB before 'Run simulation' appeared). During nav,
the visible morph and landing base only swap to cached blobs — otherwise the
current frame holds (settleGen guards a stale settle) — so rapid altitude-clicking
never blanks the stage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reduced-motion freeze-to-stills, photosensitivity warning gate + flash
audit, keyboard/SR-operable Altitude dial, low-vision contrast, and a new
about.html (English-first). Targets WCAG 2.1 AA plus a motion/seizure layer
for the unattended public URL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CC BY / CC BY-SA footage needs its author + license shown to the viewer, and the
installation alters every frame (a derivative). Per-clip license/source already
shipped in clips.json but only surfaced in the dev panel and internal review
pages — the public experience showed nothing, so the static benstull.art site
was not attribution-compliant.
Option A — add a manifest-driven credits/colophon (credits.html + credits.js):
the page fetches the same clips the experience uses (baked clips.json in static,
the live API otherwise) and renders one attribution block per clip (title,
license, source), HTML-escaped, sorted, never silently dropping a clip. An
"ⓘ Credits & licenses" link in the header (localised en/es/fr/ja) makes it
reachable from the work — what CC's "reasonable to the medium" calls for. Audio
is all PD/CC0, credited as a courtesy block.
Option D1 — the colophon declares the altered work itself is offered under
CC BY-SA 4.0 and states the footage is modified, satisfying the ShareAlike +
"indicate changes" obligations for the BY-SA sources. Non-commercial.
Ships in the static build (added to PUBLIC_ASSETS). Verified: 41/41 clips
credited incl. all 7 CC-BY/BY-SA clips, 0 missing a license. Tests: node units
for creditEntries/creditsListHtml + escaping + page structure/declaration;
pytest build-output assertion; Playwright e2e (page lists attributions, header
links through).
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>
The experience boots silent and waits for a gesture (browser autoplay blocks
an un-gestured audio play()). Until now that gesture was an unlabelled Video
toggle — not obvious to a first-time viewer. Add a "Run simulation" button,
revealed over the black stage once media has preloaded; clicking it turns
Video on, snaps the audio dial to a gentle 2/10, dismisses the prompt, and
starts the soundtrack in that one gesture. Turning Video on directly still
begins the experience too (couples audio in, dismisses the button) via a
shared beginExperience(). Localised en/es/fr/ja.
E2E coverage updated (Playwright + pytest-playwright): button shown after
load, button starts video+audio+dismisses, and direct-Video-on path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Real bucket name, wrangler 'cors set --file' (+ wrangler-format CORS file),
per-file r2 object put upload (no bulk sync exists), CLI custom-domain bind via
zone-id, Pages domain is dashboard-only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Run via 'python -m tools.build_static' (avoids tools/http.py shadowing stdlib http).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Relative asset paths (work at dev-root and under the /human-experience-simulator
deploy prefix), config.js gate, devLiveReload no-ops in static mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Solution design for a no-origin public target at
benstull.art/human-experience-simulator (apex redirects): static frontend on
Pages, ~2GB served media on R2 behind static.benstull.art, dynamic logic baked
to JSON / moved client-side. Records the deliberate flotilla/PPE process
exception for a static art target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ascending the altitude dial and landing on the higher-altitude clip jumped ~3
seconds. A baked morph `transitions/{h}__{l}.mp4` spans src@0 (frac 0) ->
dst@~LOOP_TAIL_S (frac 1) and is scrubbed bidirectionally, but the steady loop
element always seeked LOOP_TAIL_S (3.0s) on landing. Descending lands on dst at
its tail (matches the seek — the s0026 loop-from-tail fix); ascending lands on
src at the morph's HEAD (src@0), so seeking the tail was a 3s jump.
Make the loop landing frame direction-aware: pure `HEFScrub.loopLandFrame(dir,
loopTailS)` returns 0 when ascending, loopTailS otherwise. `loadLoop` takes a
`landFrame`, stores it as `dataset.loopStart`, and the timeupdate/ended wrap
handlers honor it (the base clips are already seamless crossfade-loops, so a
reverse landing wraps [0,dur] cleanly). The settle path lands explicitly on the
direction's frame so a fast ascent never jumps even if the heading clip wasn't
preloaded in time. App-side only — no 154-morph LFS re-bake.
Verify: node unit (loopLandFrame) + a new reverse-landing e2e asserting the loop
anchors at the head (loopStart "0"), and the existing forward "loops from tail"
e2e still green (12/12 altitude-lock).
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>
The post-load autoStart() flipped Video on and lifted audio to 3/10 with no
user gesture. Browser autoplay policy blocks an audio play() made outside a
gesture (muted video survives, sound does not), so auto-start showed video but
stayed silent. Boot SILENT instead and wait for the operator to turn Video on —
that click IS the gesture, and its handler couples audio to 3/10 and starts the
soundtrack in-gesture, so sound reliably comes up with video.
Updates the pytest e2e + Playwright e2e specs to assert boot-silent + the
video-on-couples-audio wiring instead of the old auto-start wiring.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: the steady-state loop (#vid-loop) restarts only via a narrow
timeupdate window (last 0.08s -> seek to LOOP_TAIL_S), with native loop off.
Headless Chromium reliably lands a final timeupdate in that window, but under
real-browser decode/GPU load a timeupdate can skip past it; the clip then fires
'ended' and freezes on its last frame ('videos aren't looping'). There was no
recovery path. Add an 'ended' listener that seeks back to the tail and resumes,
guaranteeing the loop regardless of the timeupdate race. No change to normal
playback. Proven by a Playwright regression test that forces the ended state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Localizes simulator UI controls + Left/Right annotations with a live
language dropdown. English default, session-only. 41 clips × 4 langs.
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>
Design for a language dropdown localizing the simulator UI controls and
the Left/Right brain annotations. This pass: en/es/fr/ja (Hebrew + Chinese
deferred — no RTL work in scope). English default, session-only (no
persistence), English fallback on missing keys. Annotations extend the
existing per-clip strings dict (no schema change); ~2,260 strings authored
via a one-shot idempotent translate_manifest tool.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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: slow click/auto transitions 2x and make them the same speed between any two
altitudes (2 away should take twice as long as 1). autoScrub duration is now
PROPORTIONAL to distance (PER_ALTITUDE_MS=1200, ~2x the old fixed 600ms total): a
label-click or wheel jump of N altitudes takes N*1200ms, so per-step speed is constant.
Manual drag is unaffected (operator drives its speed). E2E asserts a 2-step jump is
~2x a 1-step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator: audio turned off sometimes after landing on a new altitude. Root cause:
fadeVolume started a setInterval ramp that was never cancelled. When restAudio faded
the idle element to 0 and — within FADE_MS — that same element became the newly-landed
ACTIVE scale (assignElements reuses an element per soundtrack url), the stale fade-to-0
kept running and dragged the now-active element back to silence. Fix: cancelFade()
supersedes any in-flight fade when a new fade starts (fadeVolume) or a direct volume
is set (ensurePlaying). E2E proves a new fade supersedes a stale one (fails without
the fix).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Operator request. Replaces the Audio checkbox with a 0-10 range slider that sets the
master soundtrack gain (audioVol = level/10), scaling both the per-scale rest volume
and the two-track scrub crossfade. Level 0 = silent. Turning Video on for the first
time now raises audio to 3/10 (was: full on) so the experience opens gently; raising
the slider from 0 unlocks playback in-gesture (Safari). E2E: dial is range 0-10
default 0, and first video-on lifts it to 3/10.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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