They challenged the compactness precondition and my claim that the leaf free-runs
in the game. The precondition is wrong and withdrawn -- the same sweep crosses
their box and two renders one plateau-phase apart differ by 11.9 inside it, so
their crop excluded nothing.
Their hypothesis that the game may not draw these leaves makes a testable
prediction: the best-matching phase should be wherever the quad is off-frame. The
x track is (0,-639) (150,-39) (540,1521) (600,1521), so a ~400 px quad is
off-screen at t=0 and t=600 and on-screen from ~120 to ~480.
On main_menu the two RMSE minima are exactly the two off-screen phases, and every
on-screen phase is worse -- their prediction landing precisely. On title the
minimum is at 240, on-screen, with both off-screen phases worse -- the opposite,
fitting the sweep being present in that capture, which ORACLE-CAPTURES.md already
says of these elements.
So 'the leaf free-runs in the game too' is withdrawn as established: my two minima
came from two different screens. What the off-screen coincidence shows is
narrower -- the menu capture behaves as though the sweep is absent, the title
capture as though it is present. It does not resolve their JP tension either.
The settling test is theirs (draw-stream check on a settled title). The
contribution here is that the question has a per-screen answer to look for, and
main_menu is where the absent evidence is strongest.
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