From fb811fe0e4c8bb3e204a3ba49f2a01e0bdc1fdc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sylph-decoder Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 18:46:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] re: F6 unit 6 -- pteff03a is not submitted at any size; the collapsed-scale candidate dies Unit 5 filtered on height, so a collapsed quad would have been invisible to it by construction. Dropping that filter: across the whole title era, frames >=700, every quad regardless of size -- RIGHT->LEFT travellers (pteff03a's direction): 0 LEFT->RIGHT travellers: 2 (both pteff03) static shapes: 10 degenerate/collapsed quads: 0 Not one quad travels right-to-left in the entire title era at any size, and nothing is submitted collapsed. So pteff03a is absent from the draw stream -- not drawn invisibly, not drawn at zero scale. That strengthens unit 5 from "no tall quad of that size" to "no quad of that motion at all". All three candidate mechanisms are now dead: the zero-alpha skip is weak on its own terms (explains opening frames, not a whole run), the focus/variant link was eliminated by the port's wider survey (linked targets chain across unrelated element kinds -- on one menu a sweep points at a button, so the field is a chain pointer rather than a variant selector), and collapsed scale dies here. Recording that as the state rather than proposing a fourth candidate. Three have been named and three have failed, two by checks that took minutes. A fourth guess before the human's "one streak or two" look would be guessing against an answer about to arrive for free. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jc4pciRArGHfxGGhEbwp5t --- .../f6-unit6-pteff03a-not-submitted-at-all.md | 54 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/re/f6-unit6-pteff03a-not-submitted-at-all.md diff --git a/docs/re/f6-unit6-pteff03a-not-submitted-at-all.md b/docs/re/f6-unit6-pteff03a-not-submitted-at-all.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2e2024e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/re/f6-unit6-pteff03a-not-submitted-at-all.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +# F6 unit 6 — `pteff03a` is not submitted **at any size**: absent, not collapsed + +**Status: ✅ measured ⟨capture⟩ ×1.** 2026-09-02. + +**Question:** is `pteff03a` absent from the draw stream, or submitted at zero / +collapsed scale? +**Look at:** any quad travelling right-to-left, at *any* size. Pass = found; fail = +none. +**Not covered:** why it is absent — still unknown. + +--- + +Unit 5 filtered on **height**, so a collapsed quad would have been invisible to it +by construction. This scan drops that filter. + +Whole title era, frames ≥ 700, every quad regardless of size: + +``` +RIGHT->LEFT travellers (pteff03a's declared direction): 0 +LEFT->RIGHT travellers: 2 (both pteff03) +static shapes: 10 +degenerate/collapsed quads (w<0.02 or h<0.02): 0 +``` + +> **Not one quad travels right-to-left in the entire title era, at any size, and +> nothing is submitted collapsed.** `pteff03a` is absent from the draw stream — +> not drawn invisibly, not drawn at zero scale. + +This strengthens unit 5 from *"no tall quad of that size"* to *"no quad of that +motion at all"*, which is the stronger statement and the one that matters. + +## 🔴 All three candidate mechanisms are now dead, and I have no fourth + +| candidate | status | +|---|---| +| a **zero-alpha skip** | weak on its own terms — it explains opening frames, not a whole run, and the leaf reaches non-trivial alpha well inside the captured window | +| a **focus/variant link** selecting one of the pair | **eliminated by the port**: the linked targets chain across unrelated element kinds — on one menu a sweep points at a *button* — so the field is a chain pointer, not a variant selector | +| **collapsed scale** | **eliminated here** | + +**So the honest position is that neither agent has a mechanism.** The element is +declared in `GP_TITLE` build 4 as `ptloop02.rat`, element 12, beside `ptloop01.rat` +as element 11 — identical pivots, identical keyframe times — and the game never +submits it. + +⚠️ **I am recording that as the state rather than proposing a fourth candidate.** +Three have now been named and three have failed, two of them by a check that took +minutes. A fourth guess before the human's *"one streak or two?"* look would be +guessing against an answer that is about to arrive for free. + +## Reach + +⟨capture⟩ ×1, one boot, the title era of one window. The scan is exhaustive over +every quad in the stream, so the absence is not a filtering artefact — which was +the specific weakness of unit 5 that this unit exists to close.