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SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 7213f987c4 Draw every star at its own radius, measured where the archive has one and derived otherwise
The system view drew the Sun at its own radius and every other star at 0.45 of its innermost
orbit, capped at 0.2 AU: a size chosen so the star would not swallow its planets, not the star's.
Proxima Centauri was drawn at 2.8 solar radii, eighteen times its own, and every star without
planets at 43.

starSurfaceOf (body-view-model.ts) now gives each star a radius and a temperature. A planet host
takes the archive's st_rad and st_teff from its planets' rows: 4 439 hosts are drawn at a
measured radius, 22 at a derived one. Every other star's is derived: its temperature off Pecaut & Mamajek's dwarf
sequence at its colour (the same table the spectral estimate reads, or at the colour its type
implies where it has none), its luminosity from its absolute magnitude and the bolometric
correction luminositySolar already applies, and R = sqrt(L) / (T / 5772 K)^2. Against the
archive's own st_rad for the 1 447 catalogue hosts that have one, the derived radius is within
0.018 dex at the median, 0.071 dex at the 90th percentile, and within a factor of 1.5 for
97.1 %. Sirius comes out 1.79 solar radii (1.711 published, Liebert et al. 2005), Wolf 359 0.117,
Betelgeuse 584, the Sun exactly 1.

A star with no band has only the ETL's stand-in magnitude, and gets no derived radius: PSR
J1719-1438 came out 2.3 solar radii from it, wider than its planet's orbit. With the stars that
have neither a colour nor a type, that leaves 3 077 of 455 608 stars (274 of 4 735 hosts) with
no radius; they are drawn at the Sun's, and their card gives none.

The card says which it is: "Radius 0.141 solar radii" for a published one, "~0.10 solar radii,
from colour and brightness" for a derived one, two figures because colour does not give three.

A giant drawn at its size can be wider than its system, so systemFramingDistanceAu also makes
room for the star, and the controls' closest approach is now three of the star's radii where
that is more than the old 0.05 AU. 23 211 stars are drawn wider than 3.6 solar radii, which put
0.05 AU inside three of their radii, and a zoom would have carried the camera through the
surface of the largest. The Sun keeps 0.05 AU. starMarkerRadiusAu and the renderer's innermost
axis, which only it read, are gone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 14:27:39 +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