{
  "id": "T3",
  "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 k: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 (A5 ruled for the painter); one overcast light from the left for every body, every shadow short and soft; a track brings the eye in from the bottom edge; warm walker, ruin and reeds against the cold. The revision k:1 (chunk.lua) feathers the working areas (rect(...):blur(35/40)) to remove T2's ruled seams, shortens the walker's film shadow to a small wedge at his feet (poly 156-178 x 518-524 units), and drops any contact strip under the ruin.",
  "prior_checks": [
    {
      "test": "T1",
      "index": 0,
      "answered": true,
      "passage": "k:2, renders/k-002-2400.png, x 375-430 px, y 1243-1258 px (chunk.lua line 93, filmshadow): the wedge at the front foot reads L 35-55 against ice L 53-63 and snow L 71-72; it is darker than everything it lies on and no pale bar remains. The feet are pressed onto the ice by a dark. T2 index 0 (shadow length) no longer holds: the wedge reaches about 20 px past the foot (about 0.15 of his 123 px height), short like the fragment's strip; nothing in the picture now casts long."
    },
    {
      "test": "T2",
      "index": 1,
      "answered": true,
      "passage": "k:2, weather band rows 480-850 of 1920, columns 0-1800: row medians fall smoothly 79.8 (y 0.25) to 49.9 (y 0.433) with no stair; T2 found 33% of columns stepping more than 3 L on one row (671); the largest single-row step left is row 575 (y 0.30) at 6.6% of columns, every other row under 0.5%. The texture change is feathered over about 40 px. No ruled seam crosses the width; the band reads as a grade."
    }
  ],
  "ledger_checks": [
    {
      "item": "bands",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Sky L 80-78 to y 0.27, weather band grading 77 to 50 between about 0.28 and 0.44, snow L 72-74 from row 856 (0.446) down: the ground takes the larger share and holds walker, brook, track and the ruin's foot."
    },
    {
      "item": "horizon",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "The one hard row step of the picture at rows 848-856 (y 0.442-0.446): median L 50 to 72.5 across 66% of columns; just above the middle."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_placement",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Walker x about 0.14-0.18, feet on the ice band at y about 0.65, near the left edge; the frame's width lies between him and the ruin."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_placement",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Ruin x about 0.78-0.98, base y about 0.52 on the snow forward of the horizon, mirroring the walker at the right edge; the geometry is that of d:2/g:2 (about 2.7-2.8 walker-distances, gable about 16-19 m)."
    },
    {
      "item": "value_order",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Lead L 22-34 (darkest of the land; the walker, L 17-29, is darker still), ice mid about 50-60, band 50-64, snow 72 just under sky 78-80, no light at the horizon (band L 50 behind the ruin's foot); stone about 76-80 against the band; reflection paler in the darker sheet."
    },
    {
      "item": "hue_relations",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Walker brown-ochre and the cream stone share the warm family with the reeds; lead and ice blue; band blue-grey; snow and sky nearly achromatic."
    },
    {
      "item": "path_continuity",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Ice band continuous from the left edge to a thin pale tip at about x 0.76, y 0.56, inside the sheet's left half, short of the ruin's base (0.52) and left of the reflection's left pier."
    },
    {
      "item": "path_taper",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Band roughly 40 px at the left edge, high 20s past the middle, a few px at the tip in the final hook: it narrows, mostly in the turn (A5 ruled; not re-argued)."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_contrast",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Walker L 17-29 against snow 72 and ice 50-60; ochre lights on his back (left) edge."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_vs_path",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Feet on the grey mottled ice (L 45-65) where the blue lead is broken (x about 270-510 px); the lead resumes on both sides."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_top",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Gable tip at y 0.302 (row 580), stone L 76-80 against surround L 69-75: lighter, by a margin of 3-6 L at the very tip (see failure 1)."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_base",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Straight base at y about 0.52 on the snow forward of the horizon, on the far rim of the sheet; the reflection begins directly beneath it."
    },
    {
      "item": "near_surface",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Near snow L 71-72, calm, faint pale dabs larger toward the bottom; a line of prints from the bottom edge (x about 0.05) up to just below the walker."
    },
    {
      "item": "meaning_path",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Ice under the walker with the lead closed beneath him and open ahead and behind; the band goes away and turns up to end in the sheet holding the ruin's image, not at the door."
    },
    {
      "item": "meaning_light",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Overcast and short: the walker's wedge at his feet (darker than its ground, about 0.15 of his height), the fragment's small strip at its foot, no strip under the ruin; ochre light on the walker's left edge; the gable's piers cream, arcade and fragment greyer. One soft light now reads for both ends of the distance."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_facing",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Trunk leaning 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 an open field 0.55 deep."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_reading",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Ruin lit base to tip, mirrored in the darker sheet; the brook ends in the sheet, beside the image, not at the ruin."
    },
    {
      "item": "palette_logic",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Chromatic warmth only in walker, stone, reeds and the pale ground under the reflection; sky, band, snow, ice and lead grey to blue."
    },
    {
      "item": "reflection",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Piers and arcade mirrored at x about 0.78-0.98, y 0.52-0.60, softer than the stone, in the darker oval sheet. Residue as in T1/T2: the brook's tip ends in the sheet about 40 px left of the reflection's left pier, beside the image rather than strictly inside it."
    },
    {
      "item": "reed_fringe",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Warm fringe on the horizon (rows about 850-885), densest beside the ruin, repeated at the left (x about 0.06-0.19), absent across the middle."
    },
    {
      "item": "frozen_lead",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Grey mottled ice the whole course, a blue lead (L 22-34) down its middle, broken where the walker stands, stopping before the final turn. 'Darkest value in the picture' holds for the land only: the walker (L 17-22 at his 1st-10th percentile) is darker."
    },
    {
      "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": "lead_lightens",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Lead 10th-percentile L 27.9 at x 0-100 px, 27.5 at 600, 26.2 at 1000, 38.4 at 1400, then gone: it holds level across the first half and pales only in its last stretch before it stops. Lightens into the distance: yes; 'darkest where the walker crosses': no, it is level there."
    },
    {
      "item": "path_darkest",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "See lead_lightens: near dark, far pale, the change concentrated in the last fifth of the lead."
    },
    {
      "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, a broken side wall with an arcade stepping down, a slab fragment beyond, found by its own light, no silhouette against a glow."
    },
    {
      "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 (feet about 0.21 below the horizon, ruin base about 0.075 below), the near snow carrying the track, the ruin mirrored where the brook ends, and now one short soft light for both bodies."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A5",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "Track from the bottom edge to the walker; brook across, turning and narrowing to the sheet; reflection up into the ruin (A5 ruled for the painter). The texture carrier is faint (texture_gradient is 'accepted'): pale dabs in the snow, larger near the bottom edge."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A6",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "No glow behind the ruin (band L 50-60 at its foot, 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; one overcast light from the left; warm stone, walker and reeds against grey-blue ice, band and snow."
    }
  ],
  "failures": [
    {
      "claim": "The gable's apex is parked on the weather's upper edge. The tip ends at y 0.302, exactly where the band dissolves into the sky (the band's one remaining row step, row 575, y 0.30). It does not 'rise out of the weather into open sky', as the painter's band_edge says; it stops on the line. At the highest point of the picture's one vertical the stone is barely lighter than what is behind it, so the ruin's height reads as cut to the band's height.",
      "cites": [
        "k:2"
      ],
      "passage": "renders/k-002-2400.png, x 1880-1960 px, rows 570-605: first stone pixels at row 580 (y 0.302); band row medians 71.4 (row 568) to 69.2 (row 584), with row 575 the largest single-row step left in the band (6.6% of columns); at rows 580-604 the tip is L 76-80 against L 69-75 beside it, a 3-6 L margin, while the gable's shaft below stands 10-20 L above the band.",
      "consequence": "The one place where the ruin meets the sky is a tangency, not an overlap: the apex and the band's edge register to each other, which ties the far stone to the weather's plane and flattens the depth T2's seam repair had opened. The ruin reads cut out to fit the band rather than standing in front of weather that goes on behind it, and the painter's own reading of where it is 'given up' (to open sky) is not on the canvas.",
      "substantiated": true
    }
  ],
  "proposed": "k:2",
  "proposed_sha256": "a0790b51b547a229353e6f84acf575742184b8a9ab37dac18383f72b7e1fd572",
  "verdict": "returned_to_active",
  "t": "2026-10-11T12:45:35+00:00",
  "challenges_to_intent": [],
  "reading_disputes": [],
  "unanswered_prior": []
}