{"attempt": 1, "what": "maquette v1", "evidence": "dog of round cones/ellipsoids, 9 test poses", "saw": "looked: reads as a weasel/deer: long body, short splayed legs, tall rabbit ears, thin muzzle; lying+look-in reads as a seal pointing up", "changed": "shortened torso, taller legs, forearm vertical under a forward shoulder, heavier skull and muzzle, smaller ears, curved tail"}
{"attempt": 2, "what": "maquette v2-v4", "evidence": "proportion passes at 3x scale", "saw": "looked: dog-like (lean hound) in profile, 3/4 and frontal views; lying reads as lying", "changed": "kept; dog scaled x1.2 later so it holds its own in the plate"}
{"attempt": 3, "what": "plate v1", "evidence": "engraved porch, facade, door, interior", "saw": "looked: wobbling lines read as water, spiky hills, thin porch, flat yellow light, hall reads as a shower", "changed": "pitch 13->18 deg, porch depth 2 m, straight clapboard lines, backdrop treated as a painted flat (fence, hedge, moon), vignette toward the door, hall with papered wall and receding floor"}
{"attempt": 4, "what": "look-in staging", "evidence": "dog lying parallel to the facade, head turned into depth", "saw": "looked: in a downward-looking camera, into-depth reads as up", "changed": "dog angles 27 deg into the doorway for its last 0.6 m: forequarters in the door opening (reveal), tail out; look-in turns ~60 deg into the lit hall"}
{"attempt": 5, "what": "fragments v1", "evidence": "lion head, frontal lion, hand, lantern engraved with parallel lines", "saw": "looked: the 3/4 lion reads as a sculpted human face", "changed": "radial line system for the lion fragments (a mane radiating from the face), detail emphasis"}
{"attempt": 6, "what": "first frames", "evidence": "4 stills", "saw": "looked: lantern placed on the back wall appeared above the door (ortho camera puts far walls high)", "changed": "lantern hung in the hall at z=-1.4, clipped by the opening and the door panel"}
{"attempt": 7, "what": "gait v1", "evidence": "threshold stepping, diagonal pairs", "saw": "measured: step events show trot-like pairs then 15-frame holds (lurching)", "changed": "gait clock from distance (0.54 m/stride) and rotation, lateral-sequence windows LH LF RH RF, look-ahead landing"}
{"attempt": 8, "what": "turn 1 (refusal)", "evidence": "sheet 3.4-5.2 s", "saw": "looked: back shown by 3.8 s; legs left stretched behind after the turn", "changed": "turn mode: fast 4-frame steps, one per side at a time; settle threshold lowered"}
{"attempt": 9, "what": "turn 2 (turn back)", "evidence": "sheet 7.5-10 s", "saw": "looked: head came round only with the body (~8.1 s): chin-on-paws (rest) held the head", "changed": "rest released over 0.12 s at 7.46; head leads (points at the door ~7.7 s), body turn 7.49-7.96 s"}
{"attempt": 10, "what": "sound v1", "evidence": "spectrogram check (cannot listen)", "saw": "measured: broadband noise under the second call: the growl's AM rate was multiplied by t (phase bug)", "changed": "phase integrated; levels measured: calls -18.9/-16.1 dB RMS, soft -29.9 dB, room -45.1 dB"}
{"attempt": 11, "what": "render speed", "evidence": "cProfile", "saw": "measured: 3.2 of 3.7 s per frame in the ray-march", "changed": "conservative 2D cull of rays per primitive; output verified identical (max pixel diff 0)"}
{"attempt": 12, "what": "first cut", "evidence": "38 s film, 1 fps sheet, checker", "saw": "measured: checker ALL OK (I1 dt 0 for all six, I3 r=1.0, I4 0.94). looked: offered hand on a stretched stick arm; nose reached 0.25 m into the reveal, past where the door hung", "changed": "arm reach clamped, hand offered forward-low with a lean; door now hangs at the inner face (the reveal is the door frame), dog's final depth 0.13 m; ear flicks during the wait"}
{"attempt": 13, "what": "look-in v2 and final cut", "evidence": "sheet 22.5-28.6 s, checker, stills", "saw": "looked: the head now turns into the lit opening at a lower angle (still points up-left on screen); checker ALL OK", "changed": "gaze target low and deep in the hall, head lowered while looking; re-rendered 632-692; final encode 38.0 s, 3.96 MB"}
{"attempt": 14, "what": "round 2: head", "evidence": "crops at 1.9, 6.0, 29.5, 16, 19, 22 s", "saw": "critic: rodent/pig/otter head, skull not below back on approach", "changed": "longer narrower muzzle with stop, flatter skull, larger never-flat ears; approach head offset 0.27; measured skull ~0.2 m below back"}
{"attempt": 15, "what": "round 2: mane", "evidence": "proof/r2_mane_job.png, stills", "saw": "the lion's mane on the dog reads as a white-edged ruff while refusing; absorbed (no margin, 82% opacity) on the sill", "changed": "new fragment mane/mane_r from lion f022, face cut away; scale/margin/opacity per frame in trace"}
{"attempt": 16, "what": "round 2: captions + door", "evidence": "proof/r2_critic_times.png", "saw": "no caption 12.1-25.8 s; door begins to swing at the keystone's knock", "changed": "caption rule tied to voice spans; keystone drop + impact strokes 6.05-6.32 s; door swing from 6.07 s, ease-out"}
{"attempt": 17, "what": "round 2: final", "evidence": "checker, measured onsets, 38.0 s encode", "saw": "ALL OK; measured onsets dt +0.04..+0.25 s", "changed": "trace.json rewritten from render with measured_onsets"}