{
  "id": "T2",
  "by": "critic (fresh)",
  "intention": "Brief: a frozen brook carrying the eye through space toward a ruined choir, with a small walker, so that near snow, distant ruin and human scale bear on one another rather than assemble as symbols of melancholy. Painter (INTENT-v2, ledger g:2): the distance between walker and ruin is the subject, on one ground plane (arbiter's A4 ruling); the brook is ice its whole length with a narrow open lead closed where the walker stands, going away and turning up to end in the ice sheet that holds the ruin's reflection; one overcast light from the left for every body, shadows to the right; a track brings the eye in from the bottom edge; warm walker, ruin and reeds against the cold. The revision g:2 changes one thing: the walker's shadow is now a transparent film (chunk.lua, filmshadow, poly 157-222 x 518-525) meant to darken what it lies on.",
  "prior_checks": [
    {
      "test": "T1",
      "index": 0,
      "answered": true,
      "passage": "g:2, renders/g-002-2400.png, x 380-530 px, y 1240-1265 px (units 157-222, 517-525): the wedge to the walker's right reads L 33-50 (core on ice L 44, on the snow under the band's lower edge L 41, tail L 48) against ice L 53-61 and snow L 72. It is now darker than every surface it lies on; no pale bar remains. The walker's feet are pressed onto the ice by a dark, not lifted by a light."
    }
  ],
  "ledger_checks": [
    {
      "item": "bands",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Row medians: sky L 78-80 to y 0.25, weather band falling 75.5 (0.27) to 50.9 (0.42), snow L 72-74 from 0.445 down; the ground takes the larger share and holds walker, brook, track and the ruin's foot."
    },
    {
      "item": "horizon",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Single largest row step in the picture at rows 853-855 of 1920 (y 0.444-0.445): L 53 to 73 across about 90% of columns."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_placement",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Walker x about 0.13-0.17, feet on the ice band at y about 0.65, near the left edge, the frame's width between him and the ruin."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_placement",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Ruin x about 0.78-0.99, base y about 0.52 on the snow in front of the horizon; T1's perspective arithmetic (about 2.8 walker-distances, gable about 16-19 m) holds, the geometry is unchanged in g:2."
    },
    {
      "item": "value_order",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Open lead darkest of the land (min L 20), ice mid (about 53-61), band dark (50-64), snow about 72-73 under the sky's 78-80; stone L 80.9 against the band; reflection 76.2 in the sheet at 70.0; no light at the horizon."
    },
    {
      "item": "hue_relations",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Walker brown-ochre and the cream stone share the warm family; reeds warm beside the ruin; lead and ice blue; snow and sky nearly achromatic."
    },
    {
      "item": "path_continuity",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Ice band continuous from the left edge to its tip at about x 0.76, y 0.56, entering the sheet's left rim below the ruin."
    },
    {
      "item": "path_taper",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Band and lead narrow in the final hook to a thin tip at the sheet; the lead pales toward the far end (A5 ruled for the painter; not re-argued)."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_contrast",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Walker body L 19-36 against snow and ice L 53-73: the darkest small shape on the ground; a lighter column (L 35-41) along his left edge at y 490-505 units."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_vs_path",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Feet on the grey ice band where the blue lead is broken (units x 112-212); the lead resumes on both sides of him."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_top",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Gable tip about y 0.30, cream stone L about 80 against the band and sky behind (about 64-74)."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_base",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Straight base at about y 0.52; sheet and reflection begin directly under it; stands on the snow forward of the horizon."
    },
    {
      "item": "near_surface",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Near snow calm (L 72-74) with faint low-contrast dabs; a line of footprints from the bottom edge (x about 0.05) to just below the brook (x about 0.12, y 0.69)."
    },
    {
      "item": "meaning_path",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "The ice is under the walker, the lead closed beneath him and open ahead; the band goes away and turns up to end at the rim of the sheet holding the ruin's image, not at the door."
    },
    {
      "item": "meaning_light",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Each effect the ledger names is present: gable's left pier warm and pale, the arcade and fragment greyer; walker's left edge lighter than his body; the film shadow to his right darker than ice and snow (see prior check); a strip at the fragment's foot (L 68.8 against 70.9). Whether these make 'one light for every body' is challenged below (failure 1)."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_facing",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Trunk leans right toward the ruin, legs in stride, a round bundle at the chest."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_scale",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Walker about 0.064 of the frame tall against the full width and the open field below the horizon."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_reading",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Ruin lit base to tip, mirrored in the darker sheet; the brook ends at the sheet's left rim beside the reflection, not at the ruin."
    },
    {
      "item": "palette_logic",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Only walker, stone, reeds and the ground at the ruin's foot carry warmth; band, ice, lead, snow and sky are grey, blue-grey or blue."
    },
    {
      "item": "reflection",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Piers and arcade mirrored at x 0.78-0.99, y 0.52-0.60, softer and darker than the stone (76.2 against 80.9), in the sheet (70.0 against snow 72.6)."
    },
    {
      "item": "reed_fringe",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Warm fringe at rows 850-885: 3,399 chromatic px (C > 8) at x 1650-2050 beside the ruin, 607 at x 140-460 at the left, none across the middle."
    },
    {
      "item": "frozen_lead",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Grey mottled ice the whole course, a blue lead (to L 20) down its middle, broken where the walker stands, stopping before the last turn."
    },
    {
      "item": "track",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Prints from the bottom edge (y about 0.99) to about 0.69, larger near, smaller toward the walker."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A1",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Brook ice along its length with an open lead; it turns up into the sheet at the ruin's foot: toward, not to."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A2",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Gable with a tall pointed window, an arcade stepping down, a slab fragment beyond: a ruined choir found by its own light, no silhouette."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A3",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "One small striding, leaning, carrying figure with his track behind him."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A4",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "One ground plane (walker's feet 0.208 below the horizon, ruin base about 0.075 below); the near snow carries the track; the ruin mirrored where the brook ends."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A5",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Track from the bottom edge to the walker; ice band across, then turning and narrowing to the sheet; reflection up into the ruin (A5 ruled for the painter)."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A6",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "No glow behind the ruin (horizon band L 50-60 darker than the stone), no trees, no birds, no dusk: an even overcast."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A7",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Walker and ruin at opposite edges joined by a crossing that turns away; light from the left on both bodies; warm stone, walker and reeds against grey-blue ice, band and snow."
    }
  ],
  "failures": [
    {
      "claim": "The revision answered the shadow's value and exposed its length. The walker's film is now the one strong cast shadow in the picture: a dark tail running about 1.1 figure-heights ahead of his front foot, 20-30 L below its ground. Under the same light the stone, three and a half times his height in the picture, casts nothing onto the snow at its right, and the fragment throws a strip about a third of its height long and 2 L deep. The light that seats the man is a low direct light; the light that stands the ruin is diffuse. Two lights, not one, across the very distance the picture is about.",
      "cites": [
        "g:2"
      ],
      "passage": "Walker 122 px tall (units 471-522); film wedge x 157-222 units (chunk.lua, filmshadow), reaching about 134 px beyond his front foot, L 33-50 on ice 53-61 and snow 72. Gable about 417 px tall (y 0.30-0.52): no darkening on the snow or arcade base to its right; at the walker's ratio its shadow would run about 460 px across the arcade and fragment. Fragment about 125 px tall (rows 875-1000): its strip (units 930-998 x 416-428) reaches about 45 px beyond it, L 68.8 against snow 70.9.",
      "consequence": "At viewing distance the walker's tail reads as something he drags or a skid on the ice, because nothing else in the picture casts at that length; the ruin, shadowless, reads lit by a different weather from the man. The near-far relation the brief asks to be consequential is joined by geometry and broken by light: the walker is seated and the ruin is pasted.",
      "substantiated": true,
      "intent_item": "meaning_light",
      "against_brief": "A4 asks that near snow, distant ruin and human scale be consequential to one another. The ledger makes the light the bond ('one light for every body'); a shadow of one length for the man and none for the stone measures the two ends of the distance by different lights, so human scale is set against the ruin by drawing only, not by the one light that would make the relation hold in the same air.",
      "brief_clause": "A4",
      "recorded_as": "reading dispute"
    },
    {
      "claim": "The weather band, laid as a grade, carries two ruled seams across the full width, the edges of the working rectangles, not weather: the sky's texture stops dead on a straight line at y 0.293, and the blend stops at y 0.349, where the band changes from smooth grey above to mottled blue-grey below. The gable's tip is boxed between them; the lower one runs behind its right shoulder. The far distance behind the ruin is a stack of painted stripes.",
      "cites": [
        "g:2"
      ],
      "passage": "Rows 563 and 671 of 1920: medians step 74.3 to 70.6 and 62.1 to 60.1, with the texture change on a single row across the width (33% of columns step more than 3 L at row 671). They coincide with chunk.lua section 4, rect(0, 0, 1000, 235) (ends at 0.294), and section 1, blend(rect(0, 200, 1000, 80)) (ends at 0.35); the band itself was graded smoothly from 240 to 352 units.",
      "consequence": "A third horizontal edge, parallel to the horizon, sits above it: the band reads as a backdrop flat with a ruled top rather than weather receding, so the space behind the ruin closes on a wall and the gable stands against a stripe. The eye carried through space by the brook arrives at a ruin pinned to a flat.",
      "substantiated": true
    }
  ],
  "proposed": "g:2",
  "proposed_sha256": "2f3d0b903414d14d00b51ff9ba18730d273d093429de408b7088b6bbf340041a",
  "verdict": "returned_to_active",
  "t": "2026-10-11T12:25:45+00:00",
  "challenges_to_intent": [],
  "reading_disputes": [
    "The revision answered the shadow's value and exposed its length. The walker's film is now the one strong cast shadow in the picture: a dark tail running about 1.1 figure-heights ahead of his front foot, 20-30 L below its ground. Under the same light the stone, three and a half times his height in the picture, casts nothing onto the snow at its right, and the fragment throws a strip about a third of its height long and 2 L deep. The light that seats the man is a low direct light; the light that stands the ruin is diffuse. Two lights, not one, across the very distance the picture is about."
  ],
  "unanswered_prior": []
}