diff --git a/docs/plan/level-assets.md b/docs/plan/level-assets.md index 4040059..d46774a 100644 --- a/docs/plan/level-assets.md +++ b/docs/plan/level-assets.md @@ -1553,7 +1553,26 @@ grid cells, so it is not one offset per cell -- either most cells share an offset, are empty, or the table covers something other than the grid. Nothing measured here picks between those. -**The next thing to check** is whether level 4's run length, 19, relates to its -`3 x 25` grid by any arithmetic, and whether the same offset at `+5932` exists -in the other levels at a position given by the leading counts. Neither has been -tried yet. +**Followed up.** `+5932` is the table's *start*, not a point inside it: walking +backwards, no predecessor satisfies "ascending with a delta under 4,096". The +run is **17 entries**, not 19 -- the earlier 19 counted two entries past the +jump. + +The deltas are + + 204 212 216 224 224 228 228 228 224 220 216 200 96 96 100 96 + +then a jump of 41,484 to 190,508. So the deltas **rise and then fall** -- a +symmetric profile, not a monotone one. That weakens the prefix-sum reading +somewhat: a cumulative offset table has no reason to come back down, whereas +cell contents that grow and shrink as the table walks across a level would. + +**17 against a 75-cell grid, and 75 - 17 = 58.** No arithmetic relating the two +has been found. The earlier guess that 19 related to `3 x 25` did not survive +re-measurement and should not be carried forward. + +**Still open.** 17 entries may not correspond to the grid at all -- the table may +cover something else, or cover a subset of cells. Resolving it needs either the +same offset found in other levels at a position the leading counts predict, or a +reason for 17. Neither exists yet, and this is the point at which the +measurement trail goes cold on collision.