Design revision refining the machine-altered-perception design (2026-06-05):
- Right axis is a LOCAL offline restyle (SD img2img on MPS), not a cloud API
(refines §4.1/§4.3, §9). Per-frame restyle boils/flickers — disqualifying for
a peaceful piece — so temporal coherence is now a hard constraint, met by
optical-flow keyframe propagation (the EbSynth principle, OpenCV impl).
- Content = a small NEUTRAL "scales of nature" library (~4-6 clips, one per
scale), not a single stitched cosmic-zoom film; keeps the neutral-base thesis
and interactivity while retaining the awe-of-scale richness (refines §6/§8).
- NEW: the scales form a navigable closed RING joined by short AI zoom/warp
transitions, driven by an infinitely-turnable endless rotary encoder; diving
past the microscopic wraps around to the cosmos (refines §2 selector / §11).
- i18n sharpened (§1.2, sharpens §10): Left labels are a Pi-rendered runtime
graphics overlay (annotation-track + per-language string tables, shaped via
Pango/HarfBuzz + Noto) — NOT a baked per-language overlay video, which would
break i18n economics. Added Pi-resolution headroom to open questions.
- Strict-PD sourcing map (NASA/NOAA/NPS/USGS); non-US terrestrial is the CC-BY
soft spot. Economics: local authoring is ~free, not $300-3k of cloud API.
Grounded in a local POC this session (M4 Pro, sd-turbo, OpenCV flow): all four
axes validated on real footage; deterministic axes ~2.4s, Right flow-propagated
~2.7min/8s clip and calm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Revise the Human Experience Filter design: the piece becomes about how
humans interact with machines and how that reshapes the nervous system.
Neutral public-domain nature footage in, machine-altered perception out —
soothing or disturbing, good and bad.
Supersedes the 2026-06-04 design's thesis (§1), selection model (§3 — now
"transform from neutral", not catalog lookup), tagging division (§5), and
sourcing (§8); expands the control panel and hardware (§2/§6). Coordinate
axes and the single-pano projector are preserved.
Captures: the per-axis alteration mapping (Left=analytical overlay,
Right=generative v2v dissolve, Dark/Light=color grade), the substrate-vs-
overlay composition rule, the Light=yellow/white → neutral grey →
Dark=blue/black mood ramp, the 6-way content dial + volume/brightness, the
tactile/braille/LED/read-aloud wooden panel, and the runtime-overlay
architecture that makes multilingual labels nearly free.
Per docs/ROADMAP.md (reshapes sub-projects 2/3/4 + adds an offline v2v
authoring pipeline). Discovery session 0005.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-04-experience-simulator.md Task 6.
Dockerfile also copies tools/ (a declared setuptools package) so the
editable install resolves inside the image; the plan's Dockerfile omitted it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Discovery session 0003. Web-based, Docker-on-localhost simulator to feel the
selection model: real hef.selection wired to a synthetic fixture catalog, with
a full-transparency X-ray (ranked pool + distances + brain/mood grid maps) and
live model knobs (weights, pool size, approved-only).
- docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-04-experience-simulator-design.md
- features/{selection_xray,model_knobs,fixture_catalog,simulator_service}.feature
- one additive hef.selection.ranked_candidates() change planned (single source of truth)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sub-project 2 (ingest & tagging / review tools) shipped via PR #1 this session.
Updates the status table and §2 detail, reconciles resolved decisions (first-ship
archives, media-root layout, ffmpeg-only opt-in dominant_color), and marks §3
(Pi player) as next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per sub-project-2 plan Task 13 / spec §10 test 8. Hermetic e2e: fake fetcher ->
ingest_candidate -> proposed record; approve flips it; reload + validate_catalog;
select(approved_only=True) finds it. Opt-in real-ffprobe/ffmpeg tests generate a
lavfi clip and assert mode/duration/resolution + dominant color, skipped when the
binaries are absent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <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>
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