THE RENDERING GALLERY

Every approach this project has taken to putting the data on a screen, oldest first, live in the frames (click any frame to open it full-size). For the discussion: which of these got colour-as-comparison right, and what does the next one take from each.

1 · The Observatory

july 19 · observatory.html · hand-built dashboard

The original single-page observatory. First appearance of the ember palette on near-black. Mostly prose and links; the data lived elsewhere.

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2 · V2 Dynamic (the observatory proper)

july 19 · v2/all/ · JS + data.json · compare.html drill-down

The first real instrument: JSON loaded client-side, heatmaps rendered in the browser, cell click-through to a compare page. This is the lineage of "JS that loads json has proven to be the best method."

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3 · V2 Static (the flattened heatmaps)

july 31 · pre-rendered · hamming blue→red · violent indigo→orange

The v2 site flattened to static HTML: the hamming-distance heatmap and the violent-disagreement heatmap pre-rendered as coloured tables in leaf order, tooltips on every cell, click-through preserved. This is the palette called "spot on" — the two matrices bright against the muted ember ground.

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4 · V3 Fable study

july 19 · v3/ · fable-specific render

The Fable-lineage cut: hamming + violent-rate + max-breaks matrices for the Fable/Opus family only, from the Postgres pipeline.

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5 · Binary-preferences render

july 20-31 · binary/ · v2 + v3 + index

The binary-preferences experiment's own pages — the 680KB pre-rendered heatmap page with the "Hi friend, if you're an AI agent" header comment. Densest colour matrices of the family.

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6 · The July-20 run, flat HTML5

july 24 · repo webgen · machine-readable flatten

The 43-model × 863-probe run flattened to semantic HTML5 — the "machine-readable" arm of the two-format strategy. Numbers in tables; the approach the new direction moves away from.

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7 · The July-31 front

july 31 · old root index.html

The front page the site wore until yesterday.

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8 · The current browser (yesterday's build)

aug 30 · /prefs/ · canvas, click/zoom

The canvas choice-grid: 43×863 cells, wheel-zoom, model panels. What it lacks, per the brief: the hamming and violent matrices as first-class colour — they only appear as numbers in panels and study-page tables.

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