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LAB.04RunningStarted

The chapter globe, built — round one on the real surfaces

Continues LAB.03 The chapter globe — ten forms before the final one

What was tried

Built the form chosen in LAB.03 and wired it into two real surfaces: the home hero became a cutaway globe (one dot = one of 228 chapters across 18 books, colour = rung, size = chapter length, full ink = read, click a book and the figures panel becomes that book's core sample), and /handbooks became every book's core sample laid side by side above the existing list. The data is counted at build time, not typed in. The real thing is playable in this entry, both forms behind one switch, reading progress from the reader's own device.

Form

Running totals · recounted on every site update

Handbooks
18books
Chapters finished
228ch.
Diagrams drawn by hand
145figs
Projects on the registry
15items
Read (this device)
—ch.
LAB.04 — The real component from the main surfaces, fed the same dataset: 18 books, 228 chapters · dot = a real chapter (bigger = longer) · colour = rung L0→L4 · full colour = read on this device · globe: click a book = drill · strata: click a dot = open the chapter
  1. A globe on graph paper inside a dashed rim, its cutaway showing five gold-to-red shells with ladder-coloured dots throughout
    ROUND 01Kept

    The home hero — every dot a real chapter, all pale because none are read yet

  2. The figures panel replaced by the Git handbook's core sample: nine full cells then six pale ones, with a line reading reached L2, chapter 9 of 15
    ROUND 02Kept

    Click a book and the totals become that book's core sample — how deep you got, shown where the numbers were

  3. Every book's dots stacked as layers, rung L0 on top and L4 at the bottom, with rung filter chips above the field
    ROUND 03Kept

    /handbooks — every core sample side by side, L0 on top and L4 at the bottom, as the caption promises

  4. The same globe in dark mode, ladder-coloured dots still separable from the ink ground, the graph paper faded back
    ROUND 04Kept

    Dark mode — dots still do not sink into the ink, the thing most feared when moving off the light ground

LAB.04 — Each frame is labelled kept or dropped · the reason sits underneath it

What was learned

None of the four costliest bugs were caught by a test — every one surfaced only when the screenshots were opened and read: the rung axis on /handbooks ran upside down against the caption printed beside it (the original mock had it wrong and the port copied the mistake faithfully); the field radius disagreed with the rule written in its own comment, so the top row of dots was clipped; the English tag overflowed its slot into a two-line block (Thai fit on one line, so nobody saw it); and the tag collided with the hint at 390px. The lesson: automated gates confirm 'not broken', never 'correct' — and when a document and the code disagree, the document wins if it is the promise already shown to the reader.

What fell short

Still an audience of one; no way to verify by machine whether a swipe across the globe scrolls the page at the right moment (scripts can only check touch-action and taps); and above all, in daily use the owner still prefers LAB.02's plain dot field to a globe with structure inside it — the form is not settled, and this entry is the record of round one before the rebuild.

Line of experiments

  1. LAB.02 Separating the play zone from the read zone
  2. LAB.03 The chapter globe — ten forms before the final one
  3. LAB.04 The chapter globe, built — round one on the real surfaces (this entry)
  4. LAB.05 The chapter viewport — a Blender-style 3D window around a cloud of real chapters