Ten agents wrote this in parallel against CONTRACT.md, which exists because the
five design agents before them collided on fifteen blocking points — four files
specified twice with incompatible contents, three separate backends for one box,
and `Environment` exported twice meaning different things.
What landed: a Stage owning only the renderer and the loop, with the city and an
office as two scenes over it. They cannot share one — San Francisco is ~94 m per
scene unit with 3.6x vertical exaggeration and an office is 1 unit = 1 m — and
the city is paused rather than disposed on the way in, because rebuilding its
336,864-point heightfield costs about a second on the way back out.
Offices are data. `src/offices/lumbridge-hq.ts` is fifteen rooms and seventy-six
seats, and it is the file a self-hoster copies. Walls are a segment list with
1-D openings, so doors and windows are holes punched in a wall rather than
placed objects, and the pass that splits a wall around its openings hands the
walk-mode collider its segments for free.
The sun is real. `solar.ts` is a NOAA/Meeus implementation with no imports at
all — not even three.js — so time of day keeps working on a laptop in a field.
Verified against known values: 75.45 degrees at the June solstice in SF, 28.79
at December, sunset at 03:15Z. The first screenshot after wiring it was a black
rectangle, which turned out to be correct: it was midnight in San Francisco.
Presence binds to a seat id and never to a coordinate. The pack knows where
`eng-04` is; who is sitting in it is private data behind an API. Same shape as
the marker rule, one level in.
Two corrections to ARCHITECTURE.md are in here. Containment does not discharge
ODbL — publishing OSM-derived coordinates is Public Use of a Derivative Database
wherever the rows live, so the rule is about the geocoder (US Census, public
domain) and not the storage. And a person at a desk is not a Marker; markers are
geographic.
One contract gap surfaced only in a screenshot: two agents read `height` on a
viewpoint differently, so the establishing shot aimed at empty air fourteen
metres above the roof. It now means what the same field means for a city.
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LSE is the third of the three, beside lumbridge-compute and lumbridge-bench: a
3D engine for walkable places. This first commit is the outside of the world —
San Francisco — plus the seams the inside will attach to.
The engine renders a City and a list of Markers and knows nothing else. It does
not know markers are usually companies and it will never learn that "rejected"
is red; that mapping lives in an adapter. Which is what lets one renderer serve
a private map, a public one, and a self-hoster with no Lumbridge account, none
of them a fork of the others.
Three things were designed around the licence rather than discovered after it,
because each one is a promise Apache 2.0 makes that is easy to break by
accident. No trademarks in the repo — logos are fetched at runtime, and
public/logos/ is gitignored. No OpenStreetMap-derived coordinates, which is why
every coastline in cities/sf.ts was traced by hand: Nominatim output is ODbL,
share-alike, and would attach to the whole pack. And no FlightRadar24 client —
their terms forbid scraping and redistribution, so flights are an interface
with a simulator and open community ADS-B behind it.
The privacy constraint and the licence constraint turned out to want the same
thing. Geocoded company positions and pipeline status both stay behind Workie's
API; the open repo holds the city and the renderer. The tempting shortcut —
commit an sf-companies.json — breaks both at once.
Ported out of Workie, where a 3D city engine had no business living. Workie's
/live is deleted rather than deprecated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Karti Tripathi