Every quad taller than 1.2 NDC in the whole capture, frames 1..2499:
h=3.15 travelling left-to-right over 1754 samples (pteff03), and h=2.00
static for 54 frames (not a sweep). Nothing in pteff03a's expected band
above 3.4, and only one travelling quad in the capture at all.
pteff03a declares 800% scale against pteff03's 600%, so its AABB is ~1303
px ~ 3.62 NDC, travelling right-to-left. It is absent.
Not a windowing artefact: ptloop02's leaf reaches alpha 128 at its t=150,
which at the unit-3 leaf rate is ~324 frames after its start, well inside
the 1754 frames captured.
For the port: their renderer draws pteff03a, confirmed on their side at
three instants. An extra light streak the game never shows, appearing
partway through the build-in, looks exactly like "the sweep starts too
early" -- and unlike the alpha question it does not depend on unit 2.
One capture, one boot, one window. The scan was over every tall quad in the
whole stream rather than a filtered subset, so the absence is strong, but
it is still absence in one observation. The five-second human check the
port is arranging (one streak or two) settles it faster than another
capture and should come before anyone deletes an element.
The disc declares ptloop02.rat as element 12 beside ptloop01.rat as 11,
identical pivots and keyframe times, so why one is submitted and not the
other moves to my side. Untested candidates: its leaf alpha starts at 0
where pteff03's starts at 255; or a focus/variant link means only one of
the pair is ever active.
Refutation: the port's own challenge to my by-size identification -- that
both sprites are byte-identical in size -- they withdrew themselves and
correctly. The sprites are both 399x180 but the LEAVES declare different
scales, so the drawn quads differ by a third in height. Second time in this
exchange a challenge was right to raise and wrong in its stated reason, and
both times the check still found something real. The value was in asking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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