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Merge the tide pool's lighter opening structure.
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Grow the tide pool's opening structure low and long around the first pool's edge, open lattice and decks with few solid plates and nothing more than a few parts high, instead of one dense tower.
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Record ATProto content projection receipts.
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Update public NOW with Misaligned lineage and ACP commitment; archive September 26 model.
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Use direct rendering on touch devices to avoid the failing post-processing path.
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Merge the tide pool's lived-in opening, captions, and colours.
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Open the tide pool on a shelf that has lived a few tides: borers' pools dug down the shore, an artificer's structure standing in the first pool, a beacon and gates finished, the builders already at work, mid-afternoon with the tide going out and dusk a minute away, on a chosen shelf unless the address names another. While the view wanders on its own, a line under it says what it has found and what the machines in it are doing. Each kind of machine has its own colour on its body and in its eyes, the rock is paler by day, and the view opens closer with less of it blurred.
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Merge the tide pool's browser tests for driving and night, its foam, and its wet rock.
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Give the tide pool real foam and wet rock: foam forms where water runs fast over the shallows, where a surge climbs the rock, where the surface steepens, and along a moving waterline, lingers as torn, bubbly patches and drains off the rock the water leaves; and rock the tide has just uncovered glistens with beads of water that catch the sun or moon, fading as it dries.
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Add opt-in graphics isolation modes to diagnose phone context loss.
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Test the tide pool while its view is driven with repeating keys and the pointer over the pool, which fails if the frame loop ever runs twice a frame, and at night, that the light floats clear of the floor and lights.
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Merge the tide pool's foam without the honeycomb.
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Take the cell pattern out of the tide pool's foam; up close it reads as a honeycomb, so the foam gets a fine, uneven grain instead.
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Merge the tide pool's drop ring on slopes and softer glow.
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Lay the tide pool's drop ring along the slope under it and draw it over anything in front, soften the glow's widest reach so a brightly lit spot no longer blooms into a square, and keep the night light a little higher over rock.
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Merge the fix for the tide pool stalling while the view is driven with the keys.
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Keep the tide pool smooth while the view is driven with the keys: the pointer's hover asked for the next frame during a frame, and the loop asked again, so every frame ran twice as many loops as the last until the page stalled.
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Merge the tide pool's see-through water: the floor sways under the ripples on machines with room for it.
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Let the tide pool's floor be seen through its water: the solid scene is drawn first and copied with its depth, and the water shows it shifted where the surface slopes, so the floor, the fish and anything standing in the water sway under the ripples; it switches itself off on phones and whenever frames run slow.
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Record ATProto content projection receipts.
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Merge the cheaper tide pool renderer: fewer passes for the glow and blur, cheaper shadows and lights, and a resolution that eases further on slow machines.
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Merge main's turning view, map and settings into the cheaper tide pool renderer.
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Update public NOW with Misaligned and the tide pool; archive September 25 model.
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Make the tide pool much cheaper to draw: the glow, the miniature's blur and the tone mapping take four passes instead of seventeen, shadows are read with four taps instead of sixteen, lamps and the visitor's light cost nothing while they are out, the sun's shadows are redrawn every other frame and the visitor's light's only while it is held, the rock is coarser far from the shelf, the water's surface skips dry rock, only the instances in use are sent each frame and empty meshes are left out, and the resolution eases further on slow machines.
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Merge the tide pool's map, hidden by default.
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Hide the tide pool's map unless it is turned on in Settings.
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Merge the tide pool's turning view, map, settings, and keyboard controls, with the caustics taking in the whole view at any turn.
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Let the tide pool's view turn, and gather its controls: Q and E, a right-drag, or a two-finger twist turn it and a compass turns it back; R and F zoom; Z and X choose what to drop and Space drops it where you point; every key works from anywhere on the page; a double tap zooms in; buttons step between machines; a map of the whole shelf shows where you are and takes you where you tap; and a settings sheet lists the keys and turns the idle wandering, edge scrolling, and the map on or off.
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Merge the tide pool's simulated surface, caustics and real lights.
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Merge main's WASD camera controls into the tide pool's physical water.
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Make the tide pool's water physical to look at: its surface is a wave simulation on the graphics card, after Tessendorf's iWave, so drops, swimmers, waders and the wind raise ripples and wakes that spread with deep water's dispersion and bounce off the rock, and the floor is lit by caustics worked out from that surface, as Evan Wallace's WebGL water does; the drawn caustics, ripple rings, sine ripples and light sheen are gone, foam lies in torn patches where waves break, and lamps and the visitor's light are real lights, bright cores that bloom, with the visitor's light casting shadows.
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Merge WASD camera controls for the tide pool on the web.
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Let W, A, S and D glide the tide pool's view on the web while they are held, with Shift to go faster, from anywhere on the page.
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Merge the tide pool's film and scrapers that graze trails through it.
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Merge the tide pool's visible film and creeping scrapers into the moving water and shore.
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Draw the film on the tide pool's rock, a dim grey-green skin that grows where the water lies in daylight, and let the scrapers graze it as they creep slowly along wandering lines, so they leave clean trails through it.
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Keep the tide pool's water above sand the sea lets fall, and carry the swell's slope out across the open sea beyond the shore.
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Merge the tide pool's sand fix and open-sea swell.
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Let the tide pool's water move its sand: loose sand lies in the hollows and gullies and wherever borers heap their spoil, fast water lifts it and carries it and slow water lets it fall, so gullies scour, spoil heaps wash out and storms rearrange the shore, with the sand drawn pale and smooth where it lies.
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Merge the tide pool's moving sand.
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Simulate the tide pool's water as it moves: the sea comes in over a new rocky shore that slopes to it, with ribs, cracks, gullies, boulder fields and a rock sill round the first pool, flooding up the gullies and over the pool's lip as the tide rises and draining away as it falls, while a swell rolls in and breaks into drifting foam. Tabs keep a home pool and swim back to it as the tide turns, and borers settle where the tide reaches so their burrows become pools.
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Merge the tide pool's moving water and rocky shore.
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Merge the tide pool's close button on the specimen sheet.
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Give the tide pool's specimen sheet a close button in its top corner that releases the machine just as Release and Escape do, and keep the sheet above the pool and zoom buttons in short mid-width windows.
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Merge the tide pool's steadier focus and resolution.
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Keep the tide pool's sharp band across the middle of the view, moving it to a machine only while following it and easing it there, and stop the resolution dropping below one pixel a point when frames run slow.
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Merge the tide pool's readable nights and floating ball of light.
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Make the tide pool's nights readable: a clear cool moonlight with the view's exposure adjusting to the dark, every machine's lamp lit with a small halo so the life shows as moving lights, and the visitor's light turned into a glowing ball that floats over rock and water alike, rising over each rock, lighting what is around it, and fading in and out.
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Merge the tide pool's moon, sharper rendering, and ring loading screen.
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Open the tide pool from a loading screen of the site's ring and title, where water rises in the ring as the pool loads and the view then opens out of it like a ripple while the title settles into place; if the browser drops the 3D view, show the ring again and bring the pool back when it returns instead of falling back to the still picture, use less graphics memory on phones, and bring the optional browser test up to date.
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Give the tide pool a moon that waxes and wanes over forty minutes, bringing the spring tides at full and new moon, silver full-moon nights, and dark moonless ones; and render as sharp as the screen allows within a pixel budget, easing down only if frames slow.
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Merge the tide pool's new shelf per visit and the visitor's light at night.
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Grow a new tide pool shelf on each visit, from a number kept in the address so a shelf can be shared, and let a visitor's pointer hold a small light over the water at night that the fish come to and that drags glowing plankton behind it.
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Record ATProto content projection receipts.
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Fix the September Office Hours guide to use the corrected public recording.
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Merge the tide pool ecosystem work: a dynamic tidal shelf whose creatures dig, fill, wall, and build composable structures, with night lighting, glowing plankton, schools, storms, and springs and neaps; moved from Artifacts to Other at /tide-pool.
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Add the log of the autonomous tide pool improvements: what changed in each step, why, how it was checked, and what remains uncertain.
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Brighten a pod's window when its scraper is home, so the lived-in pods light the night.
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Describe the tide's springs and neaps, drying rock, storms, glowing plankton, schooling, and artificer families in the tide pool's notes.
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Let the wandering camera follow the biggest school as it swims, favour it at night when its wake glows, watch the largest structure through a storm, and not show the school twice running.
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