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The designs, the doctrine and the ideas of the root canon, in depth and in public: ten strata with their evidence, the living pieces, the research briefs, the notes, and where it goes next.

updated 2026-10-15 · branch proposal/optical-canon

the documents

the strata · ten, each with its evidence

A stratum is a layer added to the canon under its own laws: briefed, built with its falsifier stated first, measured in headless Chromium, reviewed by someone who reruns the harness. Each page below is that stratum's evidence file and, where a squad built it, the adversarial reviews it survived.

measured
The cloth hero
The seven laws hung as a Verlet cloth over the live field. The pointer perturbs and the cloth settles on its own: recovery to 0.12 mean Δ at 8 s, byte-identical on reload.
measured
The third axis
Thirteen spheres in close pack through the Bayer-8 gate, one fragment per dither cell. A 1-bit solid that does not shimmer: 0.47% of cells change per frame against 4.94% for the control.
measured
The ephemeris seed
The seed derived from the moon, the day, the planetary hour and the lunar mansion at the Royal Observatory, every step printed so it can be checked. Deterministic, and it changes with the date.
measured
The tide is the moon
The field's warm/cold balance bound to the lunation. Four phases at one instant differ only in the sky; a page with no ephemeris is hash-identical to neutral. Found on the way: the disagreement palette had never fired.
falsified → measured
The mark is made of today's weather
The phantom mark was described as resolved from dots and was a DOM glyph at 52% opacity. Now 309 lattice cells, each a witness mark whose radius is the field at today's seed. Reads on every date: 30 offsets, spread 1.85×.
measured
The phase disc
Any 0..1 quantity drawn as the moon through the dither gate, with a real terminator. A primitive used exactly three times: three discs, zero grey pixels.
measured
The seed as an address
?date=<ISO> opens the page at that climate; the cite control copies the citation Part III demands. Two contexts at one address render one field hash: same seed, same output, demonstrated rather than asserted.
measured · half right
The King Wen dither
The received hexagram sequence as a threshold matrix, checked structurally (28 inversion pairs, 4 complement pairs, the eight self-inverse figures where the sequence puts them). The clumping prediction was half right, which is the reason Bayer stays.
measured
The almanac
365 days derived at noon, drawn as phase discs of the warm/cold balance. Lunations appear as bands: lag-29 autocorrelation 0.907 against 0.915 for the moon itself. Two colours in the bitmap at every raster.
measured
The figure, played
The day's figure as 1-bit sound, on gesture only. No audio node exists before the press, one after, none after the second; an eight-click hammer leaves zero errors.
measured
Matra · the manifesto as a constellation
Slovo je vibrácia. Every glyph resolved from dots moved off the lattice by the seed; a wave with one wavelength per mātrā runs through each line; pressed, a line sounds at one bit in the key of the day and commits to its constellation. Metre derived from the orthography: 8 · 10 · 10 · 8.

the pieces · living component docs

There is no Storybook. A technique gets a preview piece first, and the piece stays live: every one of these re-renders per frame.

the briefs · what the builders read

Research briefs written before the strata, banked so the reasoning survives the session that produced it. They state what is hard and what will go wrong, and mostly it did.

the notes · the doctrine explained

the ideas