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SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 4951fd8657 Test that a body page opens the next body on its Sun's side and turns an exoplanet for show
Two behaviours of the body page had no test. Showing a body resets the
remembered side of the equator (sunSide = 0), so the next body opens on its
own Sun's side wherever the reader left the camera; the only test that
switched bodies went from Saturn's June Sun (south) to Earth's (north),
which moves the camera with or without the reset. And the page turns an
exoplanet 0.08 radians a second for show, which no test opened.

- 'opens the next body shown on its own Sun's side, wherever the reader
  left the camera: Earth after Saturn in December': Saturn on 2032-12-01,
  the camera taken north, then Earth, whose December Sun is south too.
  Guarded mutant, the reset replaced by void 0: this test fails alone,
  "expected 0.5999999999999999 to be less than 0".
- 'turns an exoplanet slowly for show, clock or no clock': the fake loader
  now carries one exoplanet round the Sun's record; one second with the
  clock standing turns it 0.08 radians. Guarded mutant, the turn replaced
  by void deltaSeconds: this test fails alone.

The template comment said no one has measured an exoplanet's day. The app
ships two whose spin has been: 2M1207 b turns in 10.7 +1.2/-0.6 hours
(Zhou et al. 2016, ApJ 818, 176) and beta Pic b's lines are broadened by
25 +/- 3 km/s (Snellen et al. 2014, Nature 509, 63). It now says the
catalogue does not carry the day, which is what ExoplanetRecord holds.
Unit suite 869 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 19:34:15 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 d5a5a0fc3a Move a body page's camera across the equator only once the Sun is 3 degrees past it
a9e910c mirrored the camera whenever the Sun's height above the body's
equator changed sign. The side is chosen for Saturn's rings, whose Sun goes
26.7 degrees either side, but the rule held for every body: Mercury's Sun,
never more than 0.034 degrees off its equator, crosses it 8.3 times a year,
so at a month a second the camera went from one side to the other every
1.45 seconds, mirroring wherever the reader had orbited it, with both sides
lit alike. Venus's Sun reaches 2.6 degrees and the Moon's 1.6.

The side is still chosen whenever a body is shown, but afterwards it changes
only when the Sun is more than 3 degrees across (SUN_SIDE_MIN_SINE, on the
sine of its latitude). Measured in the app on :4301, camera side changes
while the clock ran at a month a second:
- Mercury, 12 s from 2026-10-20: 0 (the Sun at most 0.0339 degrees off).
- Venus, 12 s: 0 (2.64). The Moon, 15 s: 0 (1.58).
- Earth, 12 s from 2025: 2, on 2025-03-28 and 2025-09-30, a week after
  each equinox.
- Saturn, 20 s from 2038-06: 1, on 2039-08-03, half a year after its
  equinox (it followed at 2039-01-19 before).
Reviewers had measured 7 or 8 changes in 10 to 12 s on Mercury's page, 3 on
Venus's and 1 or 2 on the Moon's.

Test: 'leaves the camera on its side while the Sun only grazes the equator:
Mercury through two crossings' steps Mercury's page a day at a time from
2026-10-20 over 60 days, through the Sun's crossings about 1 November and
6 December, and expects the camera south throughout. Guarded mutants, each
failing that test alone: the dead band removed (the sign alone chooses),
and the dead band applied to a body just shown too (Mercury then opens with
the camera on the side away from its Sun). The Saturn tests (2032 and past
the 2039 equinox, set to 2045) pass unchanged. Unit suite 867 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 19:33:04 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 7080a5a817 Turn Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Nereid on their pages at their measured days on the map's clock
The body page's comment said the body is drawn at the clock's date and turns at its rate, but a
body with no IAU model turned 0.08 radians a second of wall time whatever the clock said: on
Nereid's, Eris's, Haumea's and Makemake's pages the Clock tab's rates and Backwards changed
nothing (Nereid 4.58 degrees a second at every rate), while the system view turns them at their
measured days on the clock. Hyperion spun the same way on its page and is still in the system
view, where it tumbles and has no day.

A body whose day is measured but whose pole is not now turns pole up at that day, counted from its
orbit's epoch as spinFor counts it; Hyperion is left still; only an exoplanet, whose day no one has
measured, still turns for show. The template comment now says so, and the tick doc names all
five bodies. Live on :4301, degrees a wall second at clock rates 1, 3600 and -3600: Nereid 0.009,
31.05, 31.08 (360/11.594 = 31.05); Eris 0, 0.951, 0.955 (360/378.504 = 0.951); Hyperion 0, 0, 0;
Mars, by its IAU elements, 0.004, 14.67, 14.56.

That makes the sphere reset when a body is shown matter for Hyperion and an exoplanet. The test the
earlier fix added for that reset checked only the light, and deleting the reset passed the suite;
a test now opens Hyperion after Earth and expects the sphere at rest (Earth left it 0.89 radians
turned). Eris's page test checks it stands while the clock stands and turns a sixth of a turn in
a sixth of its 378.504-hour day, pole up.

Guarded mutants (full suite), each failing only its named test: the day ignored and Eris turned
for show ('turns a body whose day is measured'); Hyperion turned for show, and the reset deleted
(both 'puts the sphere back at rest ... Hyperion after Earth').

Unit suite 862/862, tsc -p tsconfig.app.json and etl:typecheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 17:33:01 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 a9e910c2ea Keep a body page's camera on its Sun's side when the clock takes the Sun across the equator, aimed at the body in that frame
The page put its camera on the side of the equator its Sun lights once, when a body was shown.
The Clock tab the same page gained in 74535ac changes the date without showing the body again, so
on Saturn's page, opened today with the Sun and the camera south of the rings, Go to 2045 moved
the Sun 25.7 degrees north (sunLight y +3.063) and left the camera south (-0.6): the unlit face
of the rings, the view the camera side was there to avoid. A clock left running through the May
2025 equinox did the same.

tick now remembers which side the Sun stood on at the last frame, and moves the camera across
only when that side changes: when a body is shown (the side is reset to 0 then) and when the Sun
crosses the equator, as the clock runs or is set. Between crossings the camera is the reader's to
orbit, below the rings if they like. The move came after the controls had aimed the camera for
the frame, which was drawn straight after with the body 22.6 degrees (2 atan(0.6/3)) off the
middle of the view; the camera now looks at the controls' target again before that frame.

Live on :4301 (this worktree's ng serve), Saturn's page opened today: camera -0.6, Sun -0.935.
Clock tab, 2045-06-01T00:00, Go: camera +0.6, Sun +3.063, the rings' lit face; 265 frames drawn
across the move, every one aimed within 0.00 degrees of Saturn. The camera then put south by
hand stayed there (-0.6 a second later). On Earth's page the Sun crosses twice a year, so at a
month a second the camera changes side about every six seconds.

Tests: the page followed into 2045 with the camera north and aimed at Saturn in that frame; and a
camera the reader takes over the rings while the Sun stays south is left there, which the old
single-flip rule only held through the flag it cleared and no test covered. Guarded mutants (full
suite), each failing only its named test: the side chosen only when a body is shown ('follows the
Sun across Saturn's equator'); the side never remembered, so the camera is mirrored back every
frame ('leaves the camera where the reader orbits it'); no lookAt after the move ('follows the
Sun across', on the aim).

Unit suite 860/860, tsc -p tsconfig.app.json and etl:typecheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 17:27:27 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 74535accc5 Show the date and the clock on a body's page, and open it on the side of the equator its Sun lights
Since the page turns a body as it stands at the map's date, it has been drawn for a date it never
showed, at a rate it gave no way to change: set to 2032 at a day a second in the system view,
Saturn's page ran on at that rate with only Search and Bookmarks on its dock, and at a month a
second Earth turned about 183 degrees a frame at 60 Hz. The dock now takes `clock`, which offers
the clock without the layers, as a tab named Clock, and the page binds it with the date strip the
system view already has. Measured on :4301 at 2032-06-01: the strip reads "Date 2032-06-01", the
tabs are Search, Bookmarks and Clock, and the Clock panel has the four rates and the date field;
Back to now clears the strip.

The camera opened 11.3 degrees north of the equator whatever the season, which since 2025 put
Saturn's page on the unlit face of its rings, and will until 2039. When a body is shown, the next
frame puts the camera on the side of the equator the Sun is on: measured on Saturn's page, the
Sun at -26.71 degrees on 2032-06-01 and the camera at -11.31; Earth's in June stays north.

Tests, each proved by a guarded mutant that fails it:
- the page follows the clock after its first frame (frozen at the first frame: 90 degrees out);
- a body with no IAU model shown after Earth gets the page's own light back (left at Earth's Sun);
- the page's dock shows the date and a Clock tab, and no date at the present (date never set, or
  the dock bound without the clock);
- the dock offers the clock alone as a Clock tab (no tab, or a tab still named Display);
- Saturn's page in 2032 opens with the camera and the Sun both south (camera held north).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 15:42:58 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 d449214309 Stop calling WASP-108 b imaged, and stop saying no map exists of an imaged exoplanet
48fd6fd took the archive's ima_flag as it stood, so WASP-108 b's card said it had been imaged as a
point of light beside its star. It is a transiting hot Jupiter (period 2.676 d, 0.04 AU out, 0.15 mas
at 258.8 pc). Its flag comes from Bohn et al. 2020 (A&A 635, A73), a VLT/SPHERE survey of transiting
planets' host stars, which imaged a 0.35 solar-mass companion 0.124" from WASP-108, not the planet.
The imaged query now also asks for tran_flag=0. The archive flags exactly one transiting planet as
imaged (queried today: WASP-108 b); with it left out the list has 101 names, the old 102 less that
one, and still above the validator's floor of 95. The new URL is cached under its own name, and
exoplanets.json, regenerated by the full ETL, changes by that one record's field and nothing else
(checked record by record against HEAD).

build.ts now fails if WASP-108 b is marked imaged. The count cannot see a false positive, and its
record carries neither a period nor an axis, so no separation check could. Control: the full ETL on
the old query (its cache still present) fails with "WASP-108 b is marked as imaged; it transits, and
only a companion star beside it was imaged (Bohn et al. 2020)."

The imaged sentence ended "and no map of it exists". Luhman 16 b, one of the 101 and a brown dwarf,
was mapped by Doppler imaging (Crossfield et al. 2014, Nature 505, 654). It now reads "and no map of
it is used here", which holds for all of them; the doc comment names Luhman 16 b. Control: the old
sentence fails "says a directly imaged exoplanet was seen as a point of light" only (1 failed, 843
passed of 844). Live on :4301: WASP-108 b and Kepler-22 b read "no image of this world exists";
Luhman 16 b and HR 8799 b read the new sentence.

48fd6fd missed a third copy of the claim it corrected: the body page's comment still said every
exoplanet gets a derived surface "since none has ever been imaged". It now says none has had its
surface imaged, as planet-appearance.ts and the README do.

A correction to 48fd6fd's message: HR 8799 b, c and d are Marois et al. 2008 (Science 322, 1348),
and e is Marois et al. 2010 (Nature 468, 1080), not "b to e (Marois et al. 2008)".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 23:23:11 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 dc20accfdf Draw Saturn's rings in the system view, lit, at the radii their texture draws
Audit #47. The body page's rings already lie in Saturn's equator (76fb386),
but the system view drew Saturn as a bare sphere, and the page sized the rings
to 1.4-2.6 planet radii regardless of what saturn_ring.png draws where.

The strip runs straight out from its left edge to its right. Read off its
alpha, the C ring's inner edge (74 490 km) is at px 91 of 1 280, the B ring's
inner and outer edges (92 000 and 117 580 km) at 404.5 and 860, the A ring's
outer edge (136 775 km) at 1 204 and the F ring (140 180 km) at 1 267.5: one
scale of 55.9 km a pixel fits all five within 1.8 px, so the strip spans
69 400 to 141 000 km. Only the Cassini Division's outer edge misses, drawn
30 px (1 700 km) too far in. Sized to the brief's 74 500 and 140 220 km (the C
ring's inner edge and the F ring) instead, the B ring's inner edge would sit
3 300 km out.

saturnRing (texture-catalog.ts) now builds the rings for both views: flat in
the XZ plane of a sphere built round +Y, sized against the planet as drawn,
MeshStandardMaterial lit from both faces, the strip's own alpha as opacity
(the page used the texture as its own alphaMap too, multiplying its alpha by
its green channel, at 0.85 opacity). In the system view the ring is a child of
Saturn's marker, so the IAU pole turns it into the equator and the pixel floor
scales it with the planet; a ray through it picks Saturn (memberForObject
accepts a marker's child). On the page it now reaches 2.42 radii, not 2.6.
Jupiter's, Uranus's and Neptune's rings are left out: dark, narrow or dusty,
too faint to see at any scale drawn here.

Measured in the running app, the ring's opening to Earth against Horizons'
sub-Earth latitude on Saturn (planetodetic, taken back to planetocentric with
f = 0.09796): 26.963 against 26.966 degrees on 2017-10-16, 0.075 against
0.042 on 2025-03-23, the plane crossing, and -7.764 against -7.813 on
2026-09-24. The Sun stood 26.64, 0.70 and -7.50 degrees above the ring plane
on those dates. At the closest the system view allows, 0.05 AU, Saturn is
about 5 px in radius and its rings reach about 12 px; on the plane-crossing
date they vanish edge-on.

Tests: the three openings against frozen Horizons values and a pick through
the B ring (system-orbits-renderer.spec.ts); the rings' extent, their lying
in the sphere's equator, and the strip sampled outwards so its B ring starts
at 92 000 km and its A ring ends at 136 775 (texture-catalog.spec.ts). Unit
suite 792 -> 799 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 23:42:48 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 76fb38665f Show each body on its page turned as it is at the map's date, under its real Sun
The body page used to spin every body about its pole at 0.08 radians a second, under a light at
(4, 3, 5) whatever the date. A body with IAU elements is now drawn as it is at the map's clock,
using the same pole, prime meridian and map convention as the system view. It is shown pole up
under a Sun held at the light's old azimuth, so the camera still opens on the day side. The Sun's
height above the equator is the real one, and so is the face it lights. The clock's rate now
turns the page too: at 1 h/s Earth's sub-solar point moved 15.17 degrees in the 1.012 h of sky
one wall second carried. What the page gives up is the stars, which do not turn with the body.

bodyPageView in src/app/shared/rendering/body-orientation.ts takes the Sun's direction from where
the body is: a planet's own mean elements, a moon's planet's place plus its own offset. It sets
the sphere's rotation and the light's direction. Exoplanets, Eris, Haumea and Makemake keep the
old slow turn and light.

Saturn's rings now lie flat in its equator, the page's horizontal. They used to lean 17 degrees,
which put them out of the plane they orbit in.

Measured:
- Live app, clock pinned to 2025-06-01 12:00 UTC: the Sun stands over 0.433 W, 22.125 N on
  Earth's page, the same point as on its sphere in the system view.
- Unit test, raycast on the page's own sphere: Earth one light-time earlier is 0.09 degrees from
  Horizons' sub-solar longitude. Its latitude, put on the flattened Earth, is within 0.03.
- The Moon's sub-solar point is within 0.004 of Horizons'.
Three mutants each fail their named test: a moon lit as if it had no planet; the Sun not held at
the page's azimuth; the body left in the ICRF instead of the page's frame.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:50:26 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Fable 5 307fd41be8 Keep a place, and come back to it
Restores the commit reverted off the routing branch, which is where it was
committed by mistake. The change is unmodified; only its branch is.

The map had no memory. Every visit started at the same overview, and a system
worth returning to had to be found again by name each time. A mark on the
readout and on a body's panel now keeps it, a Bookmarks tab lists what has been
kept, and choosing one goes there — a star by flying into its system, a body by
opening its page.

Local storage, not an account. This map asks nobody to sign in, and a list of
stars somebody liked is not worth a server. Every read of that store is
defensive, because it is a string a person can edit, another tab can write, and
a browser can refuse to hand over at all: a bad entry is skipped rather than
losing the rest, duplicates are collapsed since two entries for one place would
each toggle the other's control, the list is bounded so a hand-edited store
cannot decide how much this renders, and where storage is denied outright the
bookmarks still work for the visit — they just do not outlive it.

The name is stored alongside the id rather than looked up, so the list reads
before the catalogues have loaded, and a bookmark to something a later
catalogue no longer holds still says what it was instead of decaying into a
bare number.

The tab is offered even when it is empty, and says what the mark does: a tab
that appears only once you have already found the feature is a tab that never
taught anyone anything.

Choosing a kept place hands the panel back to the readout, the same move as
choosing a search result and for the same reason. That behaviour is what the
end-to-end spec caught missing — the readout it asserted on did not exist,
because the panel just used was still covering it.

Verified: build clean, 587/587 unit, 11/11 end-to-end, design detector clean,
screenshots at 1440x900 and 390x844.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jxMkwA2rbicdGxHosecYi
2026-08-20 19:12:58 +02:00
Senrokai 9cdd8f9388 Revert "Keep a place, and come back to it"
This reverts commit bd3a5a4. The bookmarks work was committed onto this branch
by mistake — it belongs to its own pull request, and it has one, branched from
this branch's own tip. Reverting rather than rewinding because the branch is
published and a pull request is open against it: the diff this pull request
shows is what matters, and after this it shows the routing change alone.
2026-08-20 19:10:24 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Fable 5 bd3a5a48c9 Keep a place, and come back to it
The map had no memory. Every visit started at the same overview, and a system
worth returning to had to be found again by name each time. A mark on the
readout and on a body's panel now keeps it, a Bookmarks tab lists what has
been kept, and choosing one goes there — a star by flying into its system, a
body by opening its page.

Local storage, not an account. This map asks nobody to sign in, and a list of
stars somebody liked is not worth a server. Every read of that store is
defensive, because it is a string a person can edit, another tab can write,
and a browser can refuse to hand over at all: a bad entry is skipped rather
than losing the rest, duplicates are collapsed since two entries for one place
would each toggle the other's control, the list is bounded so a hand-edited
store cannot decide how much this renders, and where storage is denied
outright the bookmarks still work for the visit — they just do not outlive it.

The name is stored alongside the id rather than looked up. That way the list
reads before the catalogues have loaded, and a bookmark to something a later
catalogue no longer holds still says what it was instead of decaying into a
bare number.

The tab is offered even when it is empty, and says what the mark does. A tab
that appears only once you have already found the feature is a tab that never
taught anyone anything.

Choosing a kept place hands the panel back to the readout, which is the same
move as choosing a search result and for the same reason: the panel has done
its job and the thing to look at is now the scene. That behaviour is what the
end-to-end spec caught missing — the readout it asserted on did not exist,
because the panel that had just been used was still covering it.

Verified: build clean, 587/587 unit, 11/11 end-to-end including a spec that
keeps Earth, leaves the page, comes back to it from the list and forgets it,
and one that keeps Proxima Centauri, flies out to the field and flies back in
by what was kept. Design detector clean, screenshots at 1440x900 and 390x844.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jxMkwA2rbicdGxHosecYi
2026-08-20 19:07:46 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Fable 5 4a1cc5240a Dock the HUD: every tool and readout on one rail along the bottom
The overlay had grown by accretion: a search box floating top-centre, a
readout panel bottom-left, a range readout bottom-right, and nothing that
said these were parts of one instrument. This puts them on one rail across
the bottom of the viewport — the dock — with a tab strip pinned to the bottom
edge and whichever panel is open growing upward from it. The top of the
screen keeps only the scale ladder and the nameplate, so the map itself is
what fills the frame.

Three tabs. SEARCH is the old search, with its field pinned to the bottom of
the panel and the results growing upward above it, so the thing being typed
into never moves while the list grows. READOUT is the old bottom-left panel.
DISPLAY is new: five layer toggles — labels, orbits, grid, deep sky, sky —
each a real scene object switched by visibility, except the ones the galaxy
crossfade already rewrites every frame, whose toggles fold into that
crossfade instead of fighting it. The range readout sits on the strip itself,
so it is readable whatever is open.

Behaviour worth stating: choosing a search result hands the panel straight
back to the readout, since the thing to look at is now the scene. `/` opens
the search from anywhere. Below `sm` the dock is the strip alone; a tap opens
a panel as a sheet, a tap on the scene folds it away. The body-detail page
gets the same dock with only the search — the info panel is its reading.

Two things found on the way. CSS2DRenderer gives every label its own
z-index for depth order, and the label host created no stacking context, so
labels painted over every HUD panel; `isolate` on the host keeps them under.
And starmap-hud's readout tests were really tests of the panel that moved,
so they moved with it.

Verified: build clean, 535/535 unit, 6/6 end-to-end, design detector clean,
screenshots at 1440×900 and 390×844 across galaxy, galactic, system,
body-detail, all three tabs and the layers-off state.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jxMkwA2rbicdGxHosecYi
2026-08-18 20:57:10 +02:00
Claude 650b3b37a0 Fix what the review confirmed: anchoring, overlap, honesty, one voice
Fourteen findings from an adversarial review pass, applied together because
most share two roots — geometry written against assumptions the renderer does
not hold, and a design language spelled out longhand until it drifted.

Correctness. The leader line pointed at empty space: CSS2DObject centres a
label on its anchor by default, and margin only nudges the centred box — the
overlay now anchors the left edge (center 0, 0.5) so the hairline meets the
star. The info panel and not-found panel returned to top-4 at sm, under a
search field that is 26rem wide and centred, covering the back button on
every viewport from 640 to 1088px; they now wait for xl. The search empty
state asserted "nothing matches" while the catalogues were still loading —
and forever if they failed — so it now waits for the index. "Matches 8" was
the page size wearing the costume of a count; the header now reports the
real total, with the cap stated when it bites. The nameplate un-hides at lg
instead of sm, clear of the rail and the object card. theme-color matches
the void again.

Accessibility. Tabbing to search changed one hairline's hue; the wrapper now
carries the old ring as a visible focus indicator.

Structure. hud-surface names the panel recipe that had been inlined at seven
sites and had already forked into /85 and /92; the backdrop blur it carried
is gone from every near-opaque panel — the canvas beneath redraws every
frame, so each blur was re-sampled continuously for an effect the fill hid —
and survives only as blur-sm on the genuinely translucent search shell.
type-label and type-eyebrow name the two label voices, retiring 0.14em and
the stray hover:bg-accent/10. The Measured/Derived rows both cards pasted
twice each live once in ReadoutSectionsComponent; the reticle and chevron
each draw from a single geometry, the reticle's stroke held in screen pixels
so one mark serves every size. The acquire wipe plays once per search, not
once per keystroke, because both outcomes now share one panel. hud-banner,
which styled nothing since the rule was deleted, is a data-testid — the
convention its own file already used.

527 unit tests, 6/6 end-to-end, production build, and a driven screenshot:
every label now hangs off its star with the hairline touching the point.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaySiNst4HhDXBHnMy8p5G
2026-08-17 15:19:53 +00:00
SenrokaiandClaude Fable 5 0dcd49c777 Merge main again: readouts built once, said in the instrument's voice
Main moved while the previous merge was being verified. It brought the
shared bodyReadouts builder — one source for a body's measured and derived
rows, used by the detail page and the system view's new object card — plus
the derived-value asterisk in the HUD readout panel.

All of that data flow is kept. The templates it arrived in are restyled to
this branch's idiom: the info panel and the object card share the same
organism (header, full-bleed readout rows, provenance line, route rail),
the object card's route rail sits at the bottom because there the route is
the next step rather than the way back, and the derived asterisk and its
footnote keep their meaning in sentence case. The card also needed the
restyle to render at all — it arrived wearing hud-panel, a class the
observatory system no longer defines.

Verified: build clean, 527/527 unit, 6/6 e2e, design detector clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jxMkwA2rbicdGxHosecYi
2026-08-17 16:16:50 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Fable 5 a965aed1db Merge main, carrying the observatory instrument onto its rebuilt chrome
Two HUD redesigns happened in parallel: this branch restyled the old chrome
as a precision observatory instrument, while main rebuilt the chrome against
screenshots of the Star Citizen starmap — a scale ladder, a nameplate, a
readout panel, and two-line labels that say what a thing is, not just what
it is called.

This merge keeps everything main's rebuild learned and says it in this
branch's voice. Kept: the ladder's reachability semantics and test hooks,
the two-line name/kind labels and their shared declutter logic, system-view
body labels, every readout. Restyled: chamfered clip-path panels become
hairline frames with corner-tick brackets; Orbitron is gone and one readout
face carries the hierarchy; the hexagon reticle becomes the same
circle-and-ticks mark the search field wears; focus states move to real
focus-visible outlines; the long uppercase caveat notes drop to sentence
case so they read as sentences.

Two merge-borne fixes along the way: the labels' translate offset moved into
.map-label as a margin (CSS2DRenderer rewrites the inline transform every
frame, the margin is the offset it cannot touch), and the info panel's new
Derived section picked up the horizontal padding it lost when the panel
moved to per-block padding.

Verified: build clean, 496/496 unit, 6/6 e2e (on a free port — 4300 is
occupied on this machine), design detector clean, screenshots reviewed at
1440x900 and 390x844 across all four views plus search states.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jxMkwA2rbicdGxHosecYi
2026-08-17 16:09:33 +02:00
SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5 836816ffbd Restyle the HUD as an observatory instrument
Replaces the generic rounded dark cards floating over the scene with a
single instrument language: hairline frames cut by accent corner ticks, a
viewport frame that reads the whole screen as one panel, and readouts whose
figures are what the eye lands on.

- styles.css: retune the tokens (deeper void/panel, brighter text/muted so
  every label clears 4.5:1 even over the brightest part of the skybox) and
  add two utilities — `hud-brackets` draws the four corner ticks from eight
  background gradients so no panel pays for them in DOM, `hud-acquire` wipes
  a panel down on mount as its one authored moment (reduced-motion aware).
- Drop Orbitron: every string in this UI is a measurement, an identifier, or
  a catalog label, so one readout face carries the hierarchy through weight,
  size, and tracking — and the HUD paints one font request sooner.
- Search: reticle mark instead of a magnifier, transparent field inside a
  framed shell, results as a dense two-column list with a match count, and
  the previously missing empty state.
- Info panel: return rail, name/class header, and a readout table with
  tabular figures and the unit tinted back off the number.
- Star labels: a hairline leader back to the star they name. The offset moved
  from `translate-*` to a margin because CSS2DRenderer overwrites the inline
  transform every frame, which silently beat the old classes.
- Both top-anchored overlays drop below the search field under `sm` so they
  no longer stack on top of it on a phone, and focus moved from a removed
  outline plus ring to real `focus-visible` outlines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jxMkwA2rbicdGxHosecYi
2026-08-07 17:42:14 +02:00
Claude 7b0f32f71a Assemble a body's readouts once, not once per panel
Follow-up to review on #3. The card and the detail page each built their own Measured/Derived
split, kind label and provenance sentence — the drift buildBodyViewModel exists to prevent,
re-forked one layer up, and the drift would have been in which side of the measured/derived line
a quantity falls on, which is the distinction those panels exist to draw. One bodyReadouts(body)
now returns both blocks and the sentence, and both templates iterate it. The two surfaces render
identical rows as a result, and the card gains the inclination the detail page already showed.

Also from that review:

- KIND_LABELS was duplicated between the two panels; it now lives beside bodyReadouts. The third
  copy the review pointed at is a different union (search results are star/body/exoplanet, and
  label a body "Body"), so it stays where it is.
- CardRow was HudReadout renamed. Both are now Readout, which HudReadout extends with its
  derived flag.
- The enterable-systems count was a 21-line lazy memo over arrays that are already in hand; it is
  one expression where those arrays are assigned.
- buildBodyViewModel now carries hostStarId, so the detail scene stops rescanning both catalogues
  for something the builder had already resolved.
- heliocentricPeriodDays was called twice for the same body.
- The superscript helper was a split/map/join; it is a replace.
- info-panel had five computed() each wrapping one pure call with a non-null assertion, beside a
  template that inlined the same kind of call directly. They are gone with the shared readouts.
- Dropped a tautological test that compared a pure function to itself. Replaced with one that
  asserts the host star id the builder now carries.
- Removed the orphaned doc comment left behind when formatParsecs/formatAu moved out.

And one the review raised as out of scope but is worth taking: formatRadiusKm grouped thousands
above its decimal threshold and not below it, so 69,911 km sat beside a bare 6371 km. Both are
grouped now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaySiNst4HhDXBHnMy8p5G
2026-08-06 03:52:11 +00:00
Claude 1019727a39 Say what is known about a world, and how it is known
Four changes to the readout panel and the body cards, which between them were showing less than
the catalogues hold and not always distinguishing a measurement from an inference.

Picking a planet used to navigate straight to /body/:id. That tore down the system scene and the
camera with it, so comparing two planets meant flying back into the system between each. Hovering
a body now raises a card over the live view and clicking pins it; Full view still opens the route
for the full 3D inspection. Clicking empty space unpins, and leaving the system clears it.

The card and the detail page were assembling "what do we know about this world" independently,
which is the shape of bug where a planet reads 255 K in one panel and 254 K in the other. Both now
build from one shared view model.

Orbital period was absent everywhere. For a heliocentric orbit it follows exactly from the
semi-major axis, because in these units the Sun's mass is the unit of mass — Mars comes back
687.0 d against a published 686.98. It is deliberately not computed for moons, whose elements are
relative to a parent planet the catalogue has no mass for, nor for exoplanets: periodDays is
populated for none of the 6319 shipped records and hostStarMassSolar for none either, so any
figure would assume a solar-mass host and mis-state every planet around an M dwarf. Where a period
does exist it is filed under Measured or Derived according to which it is, not by its field name.

The system readout showed a flat 0.00 pc for the Sun's distance, which is arithmetically right and
reads as a bug — the distance from here to here is not a measurement, so it is suppressed. It
gains the host star's luminosity, marked as derived, and counts moons separately from planets. The
neighbourhood readout gains the one thing the star field cannot show: how many of those points can
actually be entered. Derived readouts carry a marker and a footnote saying so.

Every quantity now formats through one module whose precision follows magnitude, rather than a
fixed decimal count per call site that read as false precision at one end and lost real
information at the other: 0.0026 AU stays legible instead of rounding to 0.00, and Pluto's period
reads 248 yr rather than 90560 d.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaySiNst4HhDXBHnMy8p5G
2026-08-05 16:45:17 +00:00
Claude be19d9cbcc Keep the star visible at the distance that frames its system
Framing the whole system pushed the camera far enough back that the star
at the centre became a speck — about a pixel across for the Sun.

The cause is a constraint that cannot be tuned away. A star is sized
against its system's innermost orbit, because it must never swallow its
closest planet, while the camera is placed to frame the outermost ring.
In the solar system those differ by a factor of a hundred: at the distance
that fits Pluto in view, a disc that stays clear of Mercury is a pixel
across. No radius satisfies both, because the information genuinely does
not fit on one screen at that zoom.

So the disc stays honest to the orbits and the halo carries the
visibility. Light is not a surface: a glow that reaches past the innermost
orbit says the star is bright, not that it is large. Its extent is still a
multiple of the star — so a compact system keeps exactly the corona it had
— but floored against the framed radius, which is what the wide systems
needed.

The disc grows a little too: it may now reach 45% of the innermost orbit
rather than 35%, which still leaves clear space between the star's limb
and the closest orbit.

Also makes createGlowSprite take the extent it will draw rather than a
radius and a multiplier. The two were only ever multiplied together, and
how large a star's halo should be is not a property of the star — it
depends on how its system is framed, which is a decision that belongs with
the framing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaySiNst4HhDXBHnMy8p5G
2026-08-05 07:40:10 +00:00
Claude ac296f5133 Derive a surface for every body that was never photographed
Fifteen bodies here have a real photograph. Every exoplanet does not, and
never will on current instruments — none has ever been imaged — and nor do
several of the solar system's own moons. Those all shared one crude
stand-in: a few noisy bands tinted by category, cached per colour, so
every exoplanet in the app was literally the same picture.

They now get a surface reasoned from what has actually been measured.

The chain is standard at every link. A host star's luminosity comes from
its catalogued apparent magnitude and its parallax distance — that pair is
exactly an absolute magnitude — plus a bolometric correction for its
spectral class. The correction is not optional: an M dwarf radiates most
of its light in the infrared, so its visual magnitude understates it more
than tenfold, and M dwarfs are what most nearby planet hosts are.
Luminosity and the semi-major axis then give an equilibrium temperature,
mass and radius give a bulk density, and size, temperature and density
together give a class of world.

Checked against the solar system the temperatures land on Earth 255 K,
Jupiter 112 K, Neptune 46 K, all within a kelvin or two of published
values, and 51 Pegasi b comes out at 1227 K against a published 1200.

Each class carries a palette reasoned from its chemistry — methane absorbs
red light, which is why the ice giants are blue — and a structure: zonal
bands for a body with a fluid envelope, because a rapidly rotating
atmosphere organises into them, and fractal terrain for one with a solid
surface. Polar caps grow and shrink with the derived temperature, which is
the clearest visible consequence of the whole chain.

The generator samples three-dimensional noise along the sphere rather than
a flat field, so there is no seam to stitch at the antimeridian and no
pinching at the poles, and it writes into a byte array rather than a
canvas — a pure function, testable, with no 2D context to be unavailable.

Two things the derivation cannot do, both stated on screen next to the
measurements it rests on. Equilibrium temperature ignores greenhouse
warming and internal heat, so Venus comes out at 300 K against a real
surface of 737 K and Io, kept molten by tides, classifies as ice. And
these are illustrations: reasoned, but not observations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaySiNst4HhDXBHnMy8p5G
2026-08-05 06:52:22 +00:00
Senrokai d7e8ea1d4d @
Add star-map Angular app, ETL pipeline, and caveman plugin

Angular 3D star map (galaxy/system/body views, Three.js rendering,
navigation store) plus the NASA ETL tooling that builds the star,
exoplanet and solar-system datasets, Playwright e2e suite, and the
cs:caveman Claude Code plugin (command, agent, skill).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-03 16:50:10 +02:00