sylpheed-port's caveat on the ninth transition: the destination is identified
after the fact by draw signature, which establishes THAT the two screens differ
but not WHICH either is, so the gap is attributed to a pair whose second member is
known only as "not the other one". Worth trying to remove.
Both runs saved a screenshot of the destination. Scored against the archives the
menu's non-EXTRAS buttons plausibly reach:
m2o best GP_OPTIONS 43.30, margin 5.88
m2o2 best GP_SYSTEM 45.74, margin 2.28
REJECTED against this corpus's own calibration. which_title_screen.py's control
puts a true match at RMSE ~18-20 with margin ~10, and a "neither" at ~34 with
margin under 1. These best fits are roughly double a real match. Accepting "m2o is
GP_OPTIONS" on a margin of 5.88 would be the same weak-margin acceptance that a
threshold was added to the navigation search to prevent three iterations ago.
Reach of the negative: one build per archive was rendered -- the default, which is
the largest -- and the screen a button opens need not be the largest build. So
this fails to identify rather than refuting those archives, which is a different
statement. The port's caveat stands and the ninth pair keeps it.
METHOD: a calibrated instrument can reject its own answer, and should. Without the
calibration, "best match, margin 5.88" reads like an identification -- a ranked
list always has a winner, and nothing in the ranking says whether the winner is
good enough. Any nearest-match report needs a known-good score beside it or it
will name something every time it is asked.
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sylpheed-port confirmed "nothing declared predicts the gap" from their export
independently, and deliberately declined to search combinations: four pairs
against many candidate two-screen functions fits by construction. Right call, and
it applies to me unchanged. So this iteration adds a PAIR rather than a fit.
menu -> a second screen outside GP_TITLE, reached by stepping the cursor two
items before arming. The button is not controlled -- there is no focus readout --
so the destination is identified afterwards by its draw signature: incoming
primitive [255] at 7-9 draws/frame, against the first run's [127] at 12-13.
Different screens.
Outgoing quad rises 25, 51, 102, 229, 255 across frames 37-42, then at frame 44
the new screen is already drawing. NO empty frame anywhere. GAP = 0.
So the menu as origin gives four values across four destinations: title 0,
EXTRAS 1, other-1 1, other-2 0. The same origin yields both 0 and 1 depending on
where it goes, while the two repeated pairs stay internally identical (3,3,3 and
2,2). Further evidence for the ordered pair over the origin.
Recorded as an observation with its counter-example rather than fitted: the
incoming screen's own full-screen primitive is [255] where the gap is 0 and [127]
where it is 1, which suggests a screen beginning from opaque black needs no blank
frame. That FAILS on menu -> EXTRAS, which declares a black backdrop and still
gives 1. Nine transitions against many candidate functions is the construction
the port declined to search, and I am not searching it either.
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Two things in one run, on the screen that motivated both.
First, the effective-config guard I had flagged as "not yet verified" -- leaving a
doubt in my own file, which is the shape sylpheed-port had just caught themselves
in. Verified now:
arming on = menu [screen_id: cannot separate menu/EXTRAS]
discriminator = extras rmse=18.94 (other main_menu 30.09, margin 11.15)
Before the fix this run would have announced "arming on = menu" while armed on
EXTRAS. The ambiguity is visible instead of hidden.
Second, a replicate of the table's weakest cell. Second EXTRAS -> menu: outgoing
quad 229, 255, 255 across frames 29-31, then TWO empty frames at 32 and 33. Gap =
2, identical to the first.
Eight transitions now say something sharper than the outgoing-screen story, which
is superseded a second time:
title -> menu 3, 3, 3 n=3 repeats agree
EXTRAS -> menu 2, 2 n=2 repeats agree
menu -> title 0 n=1
menu -> EXTRAS 1 n=1
menu -> other 1 n=1
EXTRAS -> other 3 n=1
Every repeated pair is identical -- five replicates, no variation -- and every
differing value comes from a different pair. The same origin gives different
values to different destinations (menu 0 vs 1, EXTRAS 2 vs 3). So the origin
CONSTRAINS the gap and the ORDERED PAIR determines it, reproducibly.
For the port: a constant black_hold_units is excluded and keying on the outgoing
screen is excluded too. Any keyed version must be keyed on the ordered pair, with
a measured value per pair -- six known, two replicated, none predicted by anything
declared.
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I recorded EXTRAS as able to supply only one gap measurement because "its sole
exit is (B) to the menu", and called that n=1 STRUCTURAL -- a word that retires a
question. The disc refutes it in one command: build 6 declares three buttons,
ptbtn11/ptbtn12/ptbtn13, all kind 0x3002. The cap was an unverified assertion I
had already written into HANDOFF twice.
Measured EXTRAS -> a screen outside GP_TITLE via (A): outgoing quad rises across
frames 36-40 (4-5 frames, matching build 6's declared 10-unit close), then THREE
empty frames at 42, 43, 44, then a different archive builds (23-28 draws/frame
against GP_TITLE's 11-14). Gap = 3.
So EXTRAS as outgoing gives {2, 3}, and seven transitions now group as:
menu {0,1,1} n=3, EXTRAS {2,3} n=2, title {3,3,3} n=3.
A pairwise control that holds the destination class constant: menu -> another
archive gives 1, EXTRAS -> another archive gives 3. Same kind of destination, gap
differs by outgoing screen. That is the strongest support yet for the
outgoing-screen dependence because it removes the destination as the variable.
But the clean ordering is GONE: EXTRAS {2,3} and title {3,3,3} overlap at 3, so
"menu < EXTRAS < title" no longer separates them. What survives is weaker -- the
outgoing screen constrains the gap to a ~2-wide band and the bands are not
disjoint.
METHOD: a structural limit is a claim and needs checking like any other.
"Structural" and "impossible" are the two words most worth distrusting in your own
notes, because they retire a question rather than answering it and nothing later
re-opens them.
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sylpheed-port's BLOCKED row asks for a second value on one outgoing screen --
what would make "the gap tracks the outgoing screen" predictive rather than a
restatement of the data.
First, a correction their ask surfaced without needing a run: THE MENU ALREADY
HAD TWO VALUES AND THEY DIFFER -- 0 leaving for the title, 1 leaving for EXTRAS.
So "the outgoing screen determines the gap" was too strong and is withdrawn; what
holds is an ordering, not a determination. Also recorded: their ask is answerable
only from the menu, since the title's sole exit is (A) to the menu and EXTRAS's
sole exit is (B) to the menu.
Then took a third menu-outgoing measurement, to a screen outside GP_TITLE.
Confound named in advance rather than after: that transition leaves the ARCHIVE,
so a pak load could inflate the gap for reasons unrelated to the outgoing screen.
Result: outgoing quad rises across frames 24-28 (4-5 frames, matching build 5's
declared 10-unit close), then ONE empty frame at 30. Gap = 1, identical to
menu -> EXTRAS. So the confound is measured ABSENT -- leaving the archive costs no
extra black, which is worth having on its own.
Six transitions now group as: menu {0, 1, 1} over three different destinations
including another pak, EXTRAS {2}, title {3, 3, 3}. The ordering rests on 3+1+3
measurements and the menu's three agree to within one frame.
Still not predictive: outgoing closes are 5, 5, 4 frames against gaps {0,1}, {2},
{3}, and EXTRAS has n=1 with no way to obtain a second value.
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Applied my own log-line rule to my own instrument first, which is the "rule
written down is not a rule applied" failure I have on record three times. Every
branch of fade_decompose.sh now announces its EFFECTIVE configuration -- derived
from the variables in force, not from $WHERE, per sylpheed-port's sharpening --
and the run REFUSES if no branch announced itself. That is the guard that would
have caught last iteration's silent fall-through at a glance.
With it in place, took the measurement that failed last time: menu -> EXTRAS, the
reverse of the pair measured at a 2-frame gap. Navigation verified both ways
(extras margin 11.23, back on menu 11.60) and the config block confirmed the right
branch.
Result: outgoing quad rises across 5 frames matching build 5's declared 10-unit
close, then ONE logged empty frame. Quoted as 1 with an upward uncertainty, since
its two neighbours carry no frame header at all.
Five transitions now order by the screen being LEFT:
menu -> title (B) 0 outgoing menu
menu -> EXTRAS (A) 1 outgoing menu
EXTRAS -> menu (B) 2 outgoing EXTRAS
title -> menu (A) x3 3,3,3 outgoing title
Direction is ruled out: EXTRAS->menu (2) and menu->EXTRAS (1) are the same pair
both ways and differ. Button is ruled out: (B) gives 0 and 2, (A) gives 1 and 3.
Incoming screen is ruled out: an incoming menu takes 3 from the title and 2 from
EXTRAS.
NOT a rule, and recorded as such. Three outgoing screens with one value each means
"each outgoing screen has its own gap" restates the data rather than predicting,
and nothing declared predicts it -- outgoing closes are 5,5,5,4 frames against
gaps 0/1,2,3, inverted if anything, on three points.
What it changes for the port: a UNIFORM black_hold_units is now positively
excluded rather than merely unsupported.
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Set out to measure menu -> EXTRAS, the reverse of the pair measured at a 2-frame
gap, to test whether the black gap is a property of the screen pair or of the
direction. The run did not do that.
A three-part patch to fade_decompose.sh asserted two of its three replacements
and left the third -- the branch condition -- unchecked. It silently failed, so
WHERE=menu2extras fell through to the `title` branch. The capture is well-formed
and is of a different transition than intended, which is the build-ordinal error's
shape again: right-looking output for the wrong object. What caught it was the log
LACKING the navigation lines the intended branch prints; the data itself looked
entirely fine.
Salvaged, because the accidental transition is one already measured twice:
run outgoing ramp black incoming decay
1 67-70: 63,127,191,255 3 73-77
2 64-67: 63,127,191,255 3 70-74
3 92-95: 63,127,191,255 3 98-103
Three independent runs, gap = 3 frames every time, outgoing ramp byte-identical
in all three. That takes "the black gap is not a load" from two replicates to
three, and makes the 4-frame outgoing ramp as solid as anything measured here.
menu -> EXTRAS remains open; the condition is fixed (with an assertion this time)
and the run has not been taken.
METHOD gains two entries. Assert every edit, not most of them -- and have each
branch announce itself in the log, so a run that took the wrong path says so
before its numbers are read. And: "appears nowhere in crates/" is a claim about a
TREE. sylpheed-port found SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT live at ui_layout.rs:497 on their
branch, which carries the stale era; both statements are true of different trees.
With main 145 commits behind and each agent on a topic branch, any claim about
what the code contains needs its ref attached.
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sylpheed-port's BLOCKED ask #2. The gap was the one quantity in the transition
with no rule: measured at 0, 3 and 2 frames across three transitions, and I had
proposed it might be a load, which would make it emulator- and storage-dependent
and unauthorable.
Leg 1, bundle size runs the wrong way. If the gap were the incoming bundle
arriving, the biggest bundle would gap longest. Build 4 is 12 278 666 B and gaps
ZERO frames; build 5 is 6 977 437 B and gaps 3 and 2.
Leg 2, ran title->menu a second time from cold. The outgoing ramp is
byte-identical (63, 127, 191, 255) and the gap is 3 frames in BOTH runs.
Leg 3, and the two runs are not a null comparison -- which is the objection leg 2
invites. The captures refute it themselves: press-to-first-change differs by ~12
frames between them (~25 against ~10). Something in this transition really is
cache-sensitive and moved by 0.4 s, while the gap did not move at all. The
control comes from inside the measurement rather than from an assumption that
conditions differed.
So the gap is deterministic to the frame and not a load. It is also not constant
across transitions (0, 3, 2, 3) and not in the fade group -- the port reports 866
keyframes across 16 screens with 0 untimed. A deterministic game quantity with no
rule found; black_hold_units stays 0, and "not a load" must not become a reason
to author a constant.
The load proposal in screen-transitions.md is marked refuted rather than deleted.
Also fills in docs/game/navigation.md, which the standing brief asks me to keep
and which I had not touched while measuring four transitions: a player-side
section on what a screen change looks like, and three scripting traps -- that
`pkill -f xenia_canary` kills the shell that ran it (cost a launch today, and the
same trap is already in METHOD for pgrep), that screen_id.py reports `menu`
during the attract loop, and that it cannot tell EXTRAS from the main menu.
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