Ben Stull
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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>