* fix(ui): a screen's steps read as clusters, and a link too far to follow is said in words
The mobile app's /capture came back as a web: 100 boxes in a 1,227x5,588
ribbon, 113 lines drawn at rest crossing each other 652 times, each one
running over about five other boxes' names. Measured, not guessed — three
separate causes, very unequal.
The region grouping had nothing to divide there (98 of 100 boxes take their
region from one memoized component), so the picture fell back to a single
719px column. But the region dimension was not the lever. The lever was that
`packRegions` packed every step of one distance onto shared rows and wrapped
those rows at a fixed 720px, so a box and the thing it fires landed seven
lines apart: 70 of the 113 lines joined boxes ONE step apart. That is what
the crossings were made of.
So a region is now packed as CLUSTERS — a step, then the steps it sets in
motion on the line under it, stepped in — while the starting points that fire
nothing still share a line, because a screen's handlers are siblings and
giving each its own line turned a flat region into a column. A region's line
width is earned rather than fixed (sqrt(total * pitch), clamped 720..2600),
so a big screen comes out about as wide as it is tall.
Clustering makes most links local but not all: a step reached from two places
is drawn under whichever reached it first, so the other way in still crosses
the picture. Those are now said in WORDS at both ends — `-> resumeInference`
under the box that leads there, `<- CaptureView` under the box it arrives at,
capped at three with `+N more` — rather than drawn. This is not a hiding: the
link is stated, which says more than a line vanishing off the edge of the
screen does, and selecting the box draws every one of its real lines exactly
as before. It is the one at-rest cut that does not produce the "box that leads
somewhere and draws nothing" every earlier cut produced.
Also fixed while here, and predicted by the earlier region work: the in-region
row relaxation had no cycle guard, so a region holding one loop pushed 65 of
its boxes to rows 294-301 while the rest sat at 0-2. `forwardLinks` sets
cycle-closing links aside first, as the order reading's `withoutBackEdges`
already did.
/capture: 1,227x5,588 -> 2,279x4,356, at-rest crossings 652 -> 1,
lines-over-boxes 553 -> 26, with half the links still drawn as real lines and
every quiet box still one the screen itself fires directly. The order reading
is untouched (it keeps every line).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NTUFNN5bH3aPw2gi2LqbYD
* fix(ui): a stub names its box without the mark the box wears for its kind
`← ⇠ onCaptureProgress +2` reads as two arrows arguing: the stub already
leads with a direction, and the box's own kind mark was competing with it.
Verified in the live canvas. The box keeps its mark, where nothing competes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NTUFNN5bH3aPw2gi2LqbYD
* fix(ui): the screen's line into each of its parts stops sweeping the picture
Audited all 51 screens of the mobile app on this branch. 96 lines — the
screen's own stand-in line into each region — were 17% of everything drawn
and caused 79% of every crossing left. A screen with ten regions tiles them
into bands, so the line into a region two bands down travelled the height of
the whole picture.
Two causes, both fixed. The entry the line lands on was the walk's first
member of the region; clustering moves a step that fires something BELOW the
ones that fire nothing, so that box could sit lines down inside the region
and the line had to reach past everything above it. It now lands on the box
nearest the region's top-left that the screen actually leads to. And the
stand-in line is no longer exempt from the stub rule — when the region is
still too far to follow, the link is said in words like any other. The rest
of the anchor's fan stays quiet as before: it is already stood in for.
Across the 51 screens: crossings 47 -> 10, no screen above 10 (worst was 19,
now 2); lines-over-boxes 236 -> 182; boxes with neither a line nor a word
150 -> 135.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NTUFNN5bH3aPw2gi2LqbYD
* fix(ui): a screen's parts fill the canvas instead of squaring off into rows
Audited the app's 28 regioned screens: the median canvas was 55% region and
45% nothing, and /home was 44% — 4,860px tall to hold about 2,160px of
picture. The cause is that regions were tiled a row at a time with each row
as tall as its tallest member, so one short region beside a tall one left the
rest of that row blank, and a reader scrolls through the blank.
Each region now goes as high as it can and then as far left as it can, over a
skyline of what is already placed. Reading order is untouched: regions are
still walked in the screen's own source order, so an earlier one is never
pushed below a later one — a short one just tucks under another short one
rather than waiting for the tall one beside it. Layering now comes from the
finished geometry rather than a band counter, since once regions drop
independently what a reader sees as one row IS one row.
/home 4,860px -> 3,584px, aspect 0.59 -> 0.94. Tallest screen in the app
4,860 -> 4,356. Crossings 10 -> 13 across all 51 screens, still none above 10.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NTUFNN5bH3aPw2gi2LqbYD
* fix(ui): the width a picture wraps at is tried, not estimated
A region's line width came from sqrt(total * pitch) — the width at which
total/width lines come out square. That estimate is wrong for how these
pictures are drawn: a cluster spends lines on its own structure (a hub gets a
line to itself, and what it fires starts another), so it undercounts a
region's lines badly and wrapped /capture's 98 boxes into a 4,356px column.
Laying a picture out is cheap and exact, so the widths are tried instead:
layoutAt runs the whole pack at each of eight widths and the best finished
canvas wins (~2ms for the model, all eight included). It has to be scored on
the CANVAS, not per region — squaring each region off individually leaves
fewer of them side by side, which took /home from 3,584px to 5,624px while
every region looked better on its own.
Also measured and rejected while here: dropping a region's CLUSTERS side by
side the way the regions drop onto the canvas. Total height 42,084 -> 39,756px
(-6%), but lines-over-boxes 120 -> 134 and crossings 5 -> 8, because two
clusters side by side put each one's lines through the other. Height is cheap
to scroll; a crossed line is what made this picture unreadable. The reasoning
is recorded in the code so it is not re-tried blindly. Regions differ — they
sit far enough apart that few lines run between them.
Across the app's 51 screens: tallest picture 4,356 -> 3,796px, total height
45,744 -> 42,084px, lines-over-boxes 184 -> 120, crossings 13 -> 5, and no
screen is a tall ribbon any more.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NTUFNN5bH3aPw2gi2LqbYD
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