diff --git a/docs/formats/core-data-regions.md b/docs/formats/core-data-regions.md index d137049..10085d1 100644 --- a/docs/formats/core-data-regions.md +++ b/docs/formats/core-data-regions.md @@ -185,3 +185,36 @@ less than a structure needs. Recorded because the lead was committed as a lead and this is where it goes. Nothing else about the region has been identified: it is real, non-zero data of unknown type, bounded, and unopened beyond these ~150 bytes. + +## The region after shrub has a repeating structure at stride 368 + +**Range measured:** level 0, `16047040 .. 16737344`, sampled as the first +65,536 bytes. Cross-checked on every level that has the region, each sampled +the same way from its own region start. + +**Method:** autocorrelation. For each candidate stride, count how often a +4-byte sequence at offset *i* repeats at *i + stride*, as a fraction of +comparable positions. A random control of the same size is measured +identically and reads flat at 0.0000 for every stride, so the statistic +discriminates. + +**Result:** + +| stride | region match rate | +|---|---| +| 368 | 0.1110 | +| 340 | 0.0935 | +| 337–339 | 0.026–0.029 (background) | +| random control | 0.0000 | + +Stride **368** is the strongest peak. On level 0, 340 is a secondary peak +well clear of the background; the two differ by 28, which is unexplained. + +**Cross-check:** the peak stride was recomputed independently for every level +that has the region, and **all 24 peak at exactly 368**. That is the part +that makes this worth recording -- a single level's peak could be a property +of that level's data, but 24 of 24 agreeing is a format invariant. + +What a 368-byte record *is* remains unestablished. This is the same position +the shrub body was in before differential analysis identified its records, +and the same method is the obvious next step.