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ReaperOfVeriod 86ff2e6052 Measure tie spans: a constant first word and three quantized floats
Range measured: all 1864 tie spans across 27 levels, read at each class entry's
geometry offset.

Method: read +0x00, +0x0c and the three f32 at +0x10, +0x14, +0x18, and count
distinct values per position.

Result:

  u32@+0x00 takes exactly one value across all 1864 spans: 0x00000100, 256
  +0x0c takes 83 distinct values, so it is not constant
  the three floats take 103 distinct triples built from 42 distinct values,
    and those values are round -- 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 30
    with only 10 of the 42 exact powers of two

Two level 0 spans open:

  +000  00000100 00005070 000065c0 07050612
  +010  41400000 41c80000 42200000 00009460

  +000  00000100 00007ca0 0000a040 0605091e
  +010  41400000 41c80000 42200000 0000ddf0

This rules out the bounding-box reading. A box would take continuous values;
these come from a 42-value set of round numbers, so they are authored or
quantised quantities -- a grid, a size class, or LOD thresholds -- and nothing
measured separates those.

Correction: these floats were previously read as a bounding-box minimum, from
level 0's first two spans happening to share (12.0, 25.0, 40.0). That triple
holds on 266 of 1864 spans, not all of them, and the value set is quantised.

Not decoded: what the three floats are, what 0x100 at +0x00 counts, and what
the 83 values at +0x0c are.
2026-10-12 02:52:45 +02:00
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