socal.ts claimed a 0.8 second field build for its two focus regions. Three runs
just now give 1.34, 1.33, 1.32 — the published PACKS table on
lumbridgecorp.com/simulate/tera already says 1.3, having been measured rather
than copied, so the repository was the one out of step.
Small, and exactly the drift worth catching: a figure a marketing page cites
should not be a number the repository disagrees with.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three loose ends turned into four, because one of them was not a stale comment.
`cityDaylight()` closed its fog at 210/460 — numbers tuned when San Francisco's
230-unit board was the only one. Every caller who supplies an `Atmosphere`
overrides them, which is why this survived: the demo does, so nothing looked
wrong. A self-hoster who renders a city with no clock and no weather gets the
default path, and on the Bay Area's 1003 units that fog closes well inside the
city. It now scales to the board exactly as the camera limits do, with the old
constants preserved as the default for a caller holding a palette but no world.
The three that really were comments: socal.ts justified its `latScale` by
citing the 340-unit orbit cap and the 460-unit fog as things the engine
insisted on, and the engine stopped insisting when both became board-relative —
285 is now a choice the pack makes because its lot sizes and hill radii were
authored against it. CONTRACT.md and ARCHITECTURE.md still measured the
retention argument against a 336,864-point San Francisco that has been the
whole Bay Area for some time. And server/package.json listed five routes where
there are six.
None of these changed behaviour except the first. All of them would have gone
on quietly disagreeing with the pages that now cite them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Trimming Southern California from seven focus regions to two was a measured
call — seven came to 0.73M lattice points and a 6.6 second field build against
0.13M and 0.8 — but the comment above the array went on describing seven, with
arithmetic for a configuration that no longer existed.
That comment is the only place the per-axis limitation of `buildAxis` is
written down next to real numbers, so it now records what happened rather than
what was planned. Also corrected the coarse cell size (10x, not 6x) and the
Bay Area's instance count.
The marketing pages cite these figures. A repository comment that disagrees
with them is how the two start drifting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A server whose marker source is unconfigured answers 200 with an empty array,
and the client counted that as success. The deployed map came up with no pins
at all, wearing a green "live data" badge — which is the one outcome worse than
having no badge, because the badge exists precisely so a fabricated demo cannot
be mistaken for real data, and here it was doing the reverse.
Empty now falls back to the sample set and keeps saying "sample".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six agents in parallel, and the two city packs independently reported the same
blocker: `focusRegions` and `coarseFactor` existed on the `City` type and
nothing implemented them. Uniform lattices would have been 2.9M points for
Southern California and 3.7M for the expanded bay. Both packs were unloadable
as written.
`buildAxis` is the answer, and it is honest about its limits: refinement is per
axis, not per rectangle, so a focus region sharpens its whole row *and* its
whole column. Two regions at opposite corners refine nearly everything between
them. Measured, not guessed — the bay went 0.53M points with one region and
1.64M with three, for detail nobody is looking at from a board this wide. One
region each, coarse factor ten, and the builds land at 3.8 s and 2.3 s.
Then three things that were only ever right because San Francisco was the only
city. `maxDistance: 340` and a 170-unit shadow box were constants tuned for a
230-unit board; the bay is 1003 units across and the camera physically could
not retreat far enough to frame it. Fog distances were scene units pinned to
the same assumption. And `minVisibilityM` defaulted to 4.5 km of honest
weather, which over ninety-four kilometres of bay correctly hides three
quarters of it — the night view was a black rectangle for a completely
reasonable reason. All three now derive from the board.
The moon is a real ephemeris and its light is a deliberate lie: 1.15, against a
physical ratio of one to four hundred thousand. What is being reproduced is
what a moonlit night looks like on a screen in a lit room.
The CI gate caught itself, which is the part worth keeping. Port 8431 was
already held by a server from an earlier session, so the boot check polled a
healthy stranger while the process it started died on EADDRINUSE. It now
refuses to run rather than pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
tera.lumbridgecorp.com is live and the Phaser 2D world at world1 is retired —
301 to Tera, containers stopped rather than removed so the decision is
reversible for as long as the images exist.
Worth writing down what the deploy actually needs, because it is almost nothing:
a file server and a default-src 'self' policy. No API, no keys, no account. The
one non-obvious header is img-src needing data: and blob:, and that is a
consequence of a licensing choice rather than a technical one — every texture is
drawn on a canvas at runtime because a texture that is code has no provenance
question.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two names in this repo were quietly colliding with things that already ship.
`lumbridge-simulate` is a Rust crate in the private monorepo — the Governor's
memory-admission simulator, with a public product page — and in its vocabulary
a "Scene" is a set of models, not a three.js scene. Naming a 3D engine the same
thing would have put two different meanings on both words at once.
Meanwhile world1.lumbridgecorp.com has been serving <title>Tera — Lumbridge</title>
since before any of this: the world already had a name.
So the map view is Tera, the interiors product is Spaces, an Office is one
building's interior and a Space is a room inside it. ARCHITECTURE.md opens with
that table now, because the next few thousand lines all depend on it.
The Phaser 2D world comes down rather than being migrated. Its tileset is
precisely what stopped it being open-sourceable, and there are no real users to
strand.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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