{"n": 1, "attempt": "cut v1", "change": "dog from f006 in 7 pieces, person collage, door substitution set", "saw": "standing dog reads; lying with big head card reads as a seal; chest triangle below floor; person legs boxy"}
{"n": 2, "attempt": "cut v2", "change": "head cut at neck line; chest re-cut; trousers narrowed; drawn crate/shoes", "saw": "lying reads as a sphinx-lying dog; back-of-head first version too small and floating, ears pointy like a cat"}
{"n": 3, "attempt": "cut v3", "change": "back-of-head enlarged, hanging ears, lowered onto chest", "saw": "reads as the back of a dog's head looking in"}
{"n": 4, "attempt": "set v1", "change": "facade face-on, doorway hole, airbrushed sky, porch boards, stone pillar, lamplight", "saw": "pillar a grey slab, lawn a hard block; wall empty"}
{"n": 5, "attempt": "set v2", "change": "pillar narrowed and darkened, lawn airbrushed, window from the door's curtained glass", "saw": "composition balanced enough; dog still small"}
{"n": 6, "attempt": "person v2", "change": "face print found to look LEFT: head+jaw flopped, jaw hinge at the ear, black paper mouth", "saw": "jaw opening with black mouth reads at 1280x720 (looked at frame 40 zoom)"}
{"n": 7, "attempt": "render v1", "change": "full 768 frames, trace measured", "saw": "checker ALL OK; measured look-back 0.625 s late (facing measured by position); feet slip 10 px at approach start"}
{"n": 8, "attempt": "render v2", "change": "planted-start gait; facing = head card direction from neck pin; crisper first exposures at retreat/approach/lie", "saw": "all measured onsets within 0.02 s; max foot slip 1.89 px"}
{"n": 9, "attempt": "render v3", "change": "looked-back head card angle corrected (+ lowers on flopped body)", "saw": "head comes round level-ish over the shoulder on frame 179"}
{"n": 10, "attempt": "sound v1", "change": "flite voice, room tone, claws, taps, creak, chords", "saw": "room tone too loud (soft only 5 dB above)"}
{"n": 11, "attempt": "sound v2", "change": "room tone and crickets lowered; soft voice -21", "saw": "soft 13.2 dB below calls, 15.5 dB above room tone (measured on stems)"}
{"n": 12, "attempt": "encode v1", "change": "crf 25 -tune grain", "saw": "21 MB: over the 12 MB limit"}
{"n": 13, "attempt": "encode v2", "change": "two-pass 2.1 Mb/s; disk had filled mid-attempt, re-run", "saw": "10.7 MB, 912 frames, 38.0 s; checked compressed frames: grain and cut edges survive"}
{"n": 14, "attempt": "render v4", "change": "lying tilt levelled (rear not raised), low hand extended to 58 deg with lean", "saw": "stills look right: refusal back, watching, approach head low, lying half in the frame looking in"}
{"n": 15, "attempt": "sound v3", "change": "leading silence trimmed; lines start 0.15-0.2 s before the choice; reach starts with second call", "saw": "mouth opens frame 21 (<24 retreat), 78 (<82 refuse), 174 (<179 look), 631 (<634 look in)"}
{"n": 16, "attempt": "repair 1", "change": "head-low: lower pin (30 px) and -60 deg; measured by the head card's topmost pixel vs the withers column", "saw": "219/219 frames below, min 11 px; muzzle 60+ px below (frame 571 first measured 2 px: lie start fixed)"}
{"n": 17, "attempt": "repair 2", "change": "look-back: f030 face card laid looking left on the lying flopped body, 7.458 until the turning card", "saw": "face reads at 7.5-8.0 in film frames; 100% facing the door"}
{"n": 18, "attempt": "repair 3", "change": "regrade dog prints (blur 1.7, contrast .62, calmer palette, no unsharp); matte smoothed 2.2 px", "saw": "spots gone, back edge smooth at full res; photographic detail mostly gone too"}
{"n": 19, "attempt": "repair 4", "change": "giant forearm print lowers the moon into the cloud 11.9-13.7 s; swishes + slide whistle", "saw": "visible in film frames 15.4-16.2; dog untouched; invariants unchanged"}
{"n": 20, "attempt": "repair 5", "change": "back of head rebuilt: broad skull, thick neck, folded-tip ears, f046 muzzle tip at the side", "saw": "reads as a dog's head turned away (first rebuild read as a cat: ears broadened and folded)"}
{"n": 21, "attempt": "encode", "change": "end card re-laid (text overlapped the footer); two-pass 2.1 Mb/s", "saw": "10.7 MB, 912 frames, 38.0 s"}
{"n": 22, "attempt": "round 2 repair 1", "change": "back of head: hanging ears, muzzle tip over the skull up-right into the room; tilts +6/-3/+1 during the hold", "saw": "reads as a dog's head turned away (looked at 26.5-28.0 crops); moves twice"}
{"n": 23, "attempt": "round 2 repair 2", "change": "torso back cut lower, matte smoothed 4 px, body levelled 4 deg, head pin 46 px down, swivel 32", "saw": "four approach crops read as a dog walking head low; head top 25+ px below the withers"}
{"n": 24, "attempt": "round 2 repair 3", "change": "face card re-cut at print scale 0.74 (first try 0.89 gave ratio 0.69)", "saw": "39/68 = 0.57 of the torso card"}
{"n": 25, "attempt": "round 2 optional", "change": "tail tucked 70/58 deg in the refusal; footfalls +9 dB; paw + thud at 23.84-23.9", "saw": "13 footfall transients >12 dB over the bed; thud 20 dB over"}
{"n": 26, "attempt": "encode", "change": "two-pass 2.1 Mb/s", "saw": "10.7 MB, 912 frames, 38.0 s; check ALL OK"}
{"n": 27, "attempt": "round 3 repair (new builder) - takeover", "change": "found the previous builder's unfinished round-3 edits (legs cut in two at wrist/hock, eyes/nose inked on head and front card, look-back card at 0.82); ran them", "saw": "front card now reads as a dog's face; look-back has an eye but is small and points up at the sky; legs lying still flat boots; back-of-head card reads as a face"}
{"n": 28, "attempt": "round 3 repair 1 (look back)", "change": "look-back print enlarged 0.82 -> 1.12 (63 px, 0.80 of the torso card), laid with the muzzle level at the door (+20 deg)", "saw": "eye, nostril and ear visible pointing at the door from 7.458 to 8.08 in film frames; no lump"}
{"n": 29, "attempt": "round 3 repair 3 (look in), try 1-3", "change": "new constructed card dog_away (lost profile: the inked f006 head laid under the f006 fur of skull, nape and both ears, eye hidden, muzzle tip showing)", "saw": "unflopped, the muzzle points straight at the offered hand (forbidden); straight-on back of head is the round-3 failure; laid under the torso card so the nape rises from the shoulders"}
{"n": 30, "attempt": "round 3 repair 3 (look in), try 4", "change": "card flopped: muzzle up-right (24 deg) into the lit doorway, away from the hand and below the lamp; warm rim painted on the side facing the room, nose re-inked", "saw": "reads as the back of a dog's head turned into the room (2x crops 26.42-28.0); muzzle tip against the jamb, so moved 10 px into the lit opening"}
{"n": 31, "attempt": "round 3 repair 4 (watch)", "change": "ear cut free as its own card pinned at its root; acting 8.75 ear pricks, 9.67 head and tail settle, 10.75-11.9 head cocks with ear forward at the second soft voice, 12.5-14.0 head lowers and ear relaxes, 14.0-14.5 a forepaw lifts and is set down", "saw": "five distinct acting beats visible in 2x crops; approach onset unchanged (14.708)"}
{"n": 32, "attempt": "round 3 repair 5 (legs)", "change": "lying legs fold on two cards; lower cards flopped so paws lie toes-down; toes inked on all four paws; forelegs 60/90, hind 95/90 (haunch forward, paw under it)", "saw": "rotating the lower card past 90 only lifted it (boot); hind folded backward went through the boards; the flop solved the toes-up flipper"}
{"n": 33, "attempt": "round 4 build", "change": "assets.json now regenerated from the cut pieces (build/assets.py); f046 back-of-head card dropped (unused) and its source copy removed; end card text updated (twelve pieces, inked retouching declared)", "saw": "check ALL OK; 912 frames; onsets within 0.02 s"}
{"n": 34, "attempt": "round 4 final encode", "change": "look-in head moved 10 px into the lit opening (muzzle tip x 371.5, opening 193-387); full rebuild with build/make.sh; rendered frames deleted", "saw": "check ALL OK; 912 frames, 38.0 s, 10.7 MB, H.264+AAC, faststart; film frames looked at full-frame and at 2x: front card a dog face, look back a face at the door from 7.46, five watch beats, folded legs, back of the head into the lit room 26.42-28.04; folder 22 MB"}
{"n": 35, "attempt": "critic round 4 repair (look-in only)", "change": "look-in head replaced by a real print of the back of the dog's head (Amateur Film New Jersey C f001, the dog seen from behind), scissor-cut at the dog's print scale 1.31, ear flaps and fur parting inked, laid under the torso card at the nape, level; no muzzle. Hold tilts 0/+5/-4/0 deg; from 28.08 it slides 12 px down (chin toward the sill) and stays turned in: no swap back to the profile facing the hand. The constructed lost-profile card (dog_away) is no longer cut. f001 copied to sources/, assets.json and end card updated", "saw": "full frame and 2x film frames 26.42-31.95: the back of a round skull with two ears hanging evenly, inside the lit doorway, never lifted; a pale nape strip under the head (could read as a throat) trimmed off the cut. check ALL OK, 912 frames"}