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Sylpheed/tools/re-capture/focus_ring_probe.py
sylph-decoder 724e06b134 re: the main menu's focus ring spins continuously -- period 2.18 s, measured
Answers the port's ask: ptbtneff01 is ANIMATED while a button is focused, not
drawn once and held. The existing page said 'the ring SPINS' from one frame at a
large angle, which is equally consistent with a static draw at a fixed angle.

No angle is quoted anywhere. The 360-bin angular estimator written for this
FAILED its own control -- a synthetic 30 deg came back as 0 deg (peak 0.596)
while 90/180/270 came back exactly -- so it was not used. What settles it needs
no angle: total annulus brightness is conserved to 0.4 % while individual
angular bins swing by 24, i.e. brightness moving AROUND the ring, which excludes
a pulse. The temporal-std map is a clean annulus, falling to ~1 both inside and
outside the stroke, which excludes positional jitter.

Period from the profile's autocorrelation: eight evenly spaced peaks, mean
2.177 s over nine revolutions. Even spacing is the internal check a drifting
instrument cannot pass. That is 120 units = 60 frames = 2.00 s at a true 30 Hz.

Also measured, same run: the ring is the ONLY moving thing on the settled main
menu -- temporal std is exactly 0.000 on every unfocused button, the labels and
the footer. And the ring's centre, located from the std map at game
(520.7, 339.7), matches the declared leaf offset's prediction of (521, 340).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KNR5Y79D1T4bBr6gJQaWFP
2026-08-29 11:50:32 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Does the main menu's focus ring KEEP spinning, or is it drawn once and held?
The question is not "is the ring rotated" -- one oracle frame already showed it
at a large angle (docs/re/structures/ui-button-focus-record.md). It is whether
that rotation is ANIMATED while a button sits focused, which is what decides
whether a port draws a static ring or runs a loop.
Instrument: a live x11grab filmstrip and the per-pixel TEMPORAL standard
deviation of the frames while nothing is touched. A spinning ring makes its
own box vary; a held one does not. No angle is estimated anywhere -- the
centroid estimator that would do that fails its own control by up to 19.8 deg
(same page), so this probe measures presence-of-change instead, which is the
question actually asked.
NO FIXED PIXEL BOXES. xenia's window has a menu bar and the game surface is
1279x675 inside a 1280x720 root, so game coordinates do not address grab
coordinates. This probe saves whole-frame accumulators; `focus_ring_report.py`
aligns them against a committed capture first and only then reads boxes.
Phases: A = 20 s untouched, then d-pad DOWN, then C = 12 s untouched.
The d-pad press is the POSITIVE CONTROL: |mean(A) - mean(C)| must fire at the
two ring locations, or a null in phase A is a dead instrument, not a finding.
Usage: focus_ring_probe.py OUTDIR
"""
import os, subprocess, sys, time
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
W, H = 1280, 720
SD = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
OUT = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "/sylph-home/re/ringcap"
os.makedirs(OUT, exist_ok=True)
RESTART_S = 25 # a long-lived x11grab stream stalls and repeats frames
def open_stream():
return subprocess.Popen(
["ffmpeg", "-loglevel", "error", "-f", "x11grab", "-draw_mouse", "0",
"-video_size", f"{W}x{H}", "-i", ":98", "-r", "4",
"-f", "rawvideo", "-pix_fmt", "rgb24", "-"],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, bufsize=W * H * 3 * 2)
class Stream:
def __init__(self):
self.p = open_stream(); self.seg = time.time()
def read(self):
if time.time() - self.seg > RESTART_S:
self.p.kill(); self.p = open_stream(); self.seg = time.time()
buf = self.p.stdout.read(W * H * 3)
if len(buf) < W * H * 3:
self.p.kill(); self.p = open_stream(); self.seg = time.time()
return None
return np.frombuffer(buf, np.uint8).reshape(H, W, 3)
def close(self):
try: self.p.kill()
except Exception: pass
sys.path.insert(0, SD)
from screen_match import classify_array # controlled: 8/8, incl. the movie
# frames that broke the old oracle
def collect(st, secs, tag):
"""Whole-frame temporal mean and std over `secs`, plus a PNG filmstrip."""
t0 = time.time(); n = 0
acc = acc2 = None
next_shot = 0.0
while True:
el = time.time() - t0
if el >= secs:
break
a = st.read()
if a is None:
continue
f = a.astype(np.float64)
acc = f.copy() if acc is None else acc + f
acc2 = f * f if acc2 is None else acc2 + f * f
if el >= next_shot:
Image.fromarray(a).save(f"{OUT}/{tag}-t{el:05.1f}.png")
next_shot = el + 4.0
n += 1
mean = acc / n
std = np.sqrt(np.maximum(acc2 / n - mean * mean, 0))
np.save(f"{OUT}/{tag}-mean.npy", mean.astype(np.float32))
np.save(f"{OUT}/{tag}-std.npy", std.astype(np.float32))
Image.fromarray(mean.astype(np.uint8)).save(f"{OUT}/{tag}-mean.png")
# a visible std map, scaled x8 and clipped -- an artefact a human can look at
Image.fromarray(np.clip(std * 8, 0, 255).astype(np.uint8)).save(f"{OUT}/{tag}-std8.png")
print(f"[{tag}] {n} frames in {secs:.0f}s = {n/secs:.2f} fps; "
f"whole-frame std mean {std.mean():.4f} max {std.max():.2f}", flush=True)
return mean, std, n
def main():
st = Stream()
t0 = time.time(); seen = None; last = None; skipped = False
# ONE (A) ~45 s in skips the intro movie: measured, title at ~57 s against a
# ~193 s no-input baseline (HANDOFF, movie-binding.md). HAMMERING is what
# breaks the boot -- 88 presses left a permanent black screen -- so exactly
# one, and only once.
while time.time() - t0 < 620:
a = st.read()
if a is None:
continue
last = a
el = time.time() - t0
if not skipped and el > 45:
subprocess.run(["python3", f"{SD}/pad.py", "tap", "A", "0.3"], check=False)
skipped = True
print(f"t={el:6.1f}s one (A) to skip the intro movie", flush=True)
continue
c, sc = classify_array(a)
if c != seen:
print(f"t={el:6.1f}s screen={c} " +
" ".join(f"{k}={v:+.3f}" for k, v in sc.items()), flush=True)
seen = c
if c == "title":
break
if seen != "title":
print("NEVER REACHED THE TITLE"); st.close(); return 1
Image.fromarray(last).save(f"{OUT}/00-title.png")
subprocess.run(["python3", f"{SD}/pad.py", "tap", "A", "0.3"], check=False)
print("(A) on the title", flush=True)
t1 = time.time(); got = False
while time.time() - t1 < 150:
a = st.read()
if a is None:
continue
c, sc = classify_array(a)
if c == "menu":
got = True; break
if not got:
print("NO MENU AFTER A"); st.close(); return 2
time.sleep(4) # let the menu's ~1 s fade-in and element ramps settle
a = st.read()
if a is not None:
Image.fromarray(a).save(f"{OUT}/01-menu.png")
print("AT MAIN MENU", flush=True)
mA, sA, nA = collect(st, 20, "A")
subprocess.run(["python3", f"{SD}/pad.py", "dpad", "down"], check=False)
print(">>> d-pad DOWN pressed", flush=True)
time.sleep(2.0)
mC, sC, nC = collect(st, 12, "C")
d = np.abs(mA - mC)
np.save(f"{OUT}/AC-absdiff.npy", d.astype(np.float32))
Image.fromarray(np.clip(d * 4, 0, 255).astype(np.uint8)).save(f"{OUT}/AC-absdiff4.png")
print(f"[A-vs-C] absdiff mean {d.mean():.4f} max {d.max():.2f}", flush=True)
st.close()
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())