{
  "id": "T5",
  "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, not as assembled symbols of melancholy. Painter (INTENT-v2, ledger n:4): the distance between walker and ruin is the subject, on one ground plane (A4 ruling on P3); the brook's course is not re-argued (A5 ruling). Judged against the arbiter's T4 ruling: the reflection stays lighter, 'a bit unexpected'; the ruin's foot meets the ice on a subtle speckled line in the far path's colour and texture, unmistakable at the foot, implied and gently curved across nearly the full canvas, faint but present.",
  "prior_checks": [
    {
      "test": "T1",
      "index": 0,
      "answered": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png, x 380-540, rows 1236-1260 (the T1 patch, x 0.16-0.22, y 0.645-0.656): no pale bar. Under and ahead of the front foot the film runs L 22-47 on ice 44-63 and snow 72-73; beside it the snow holds at 72-74, within 1-2 L of the open snow below (72.5). The walker is seated by a shadow darker than what it lies on."
    },
    {
      "test": "T2",
      "index": 1,
      "answered": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png, row medians through the weather band: 72.7 (row 540), 69.6 (555), 67.8 (563), 65.6 (570), 64.7 (575), 63.6 (585), 62.1 (600) ... 59.1 (660), 58.8 (671), 58.2 (680), 56.9 (700): a grade with no step above 3 L between sampled rows, and none at the old seams 563 and 671. Visually the band's top dissolves into the sky as weather, not a ruled edge."
    },
    {
      "test": "T3",
      "index": 0,
      "answered": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png, x 1860-1980, rows 560-614: the band's grade already reaches L 65-67 by row 572; the gable's first stone appears at row 584 (y 0.304) at L 79 against band 65-67, a 12-14 L margin from the tip down. The apex stands inside the weather, about 40 rows below where the band has dissolved into sky; no tangency."
    },
    {
      "test": "T4",
      "index": 0,
      "answered": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png, foot of the ruin, rows 997-1006: the stone ends at row 997 (column median 79-84 under the lit pier, x 1880-1940); rows 1000-1006 carry the speckled line (row median 74.7, minima 69-72, blue-grey lead flecks) before the reflection resumes at 75.5-76.5. Under the shaded walls (x 2120-2180) the line sits at 71-72 between wall 69-71 and reflection 74-76. At 600 px reduction the base row dips 3 L under the pier (73.5 between 79.4 and 76.5) and 6 L under the arcade (67.6 between 73 and 74): the foot is a line on the ground, not a soft joint into the pale column. The reflection stays lighter than the snow and the shaded walls, as the ruling keeps it. Pressure kept on record: at 2400 under the lit pier itself the line's median is only 0.4 L below the reflection beneath it; the foot reads there by its flecks, not by a band of value."
    }
  ],
  "ledger_checks": [
    {
      "item": "bands",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: open sky to about y 0.25, the weather band grading down to the horizon at 0.444, snow below taking the larger share; all events (track, walker, brook, ruin's foot) sit in the snow."
    },
    {
      "item": "horizon",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: horizon at row ~1065 (0.444), just above the middle; the band meets the ground directly with the reed fringe on it."
    },
    {
      "item": "band_edge",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: band top a grade from row ~540 to 600 (0.23-0.25), the gable's tip at row 584 sits inside it with a 12-14 L margin; bottom at the horizon."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_placement",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: walker at x ~0.15, y ~0.62, near the left edge, standing on the brook's ice."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_placement",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: ruin at the right edge (x 0.78-0.98), base at row ~997 (0.52), on the snow in front of the horizon."
    },
    {
      "item": "value_order",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: open lead the darkest line on the land, walker darker still; ice mid; band dark; snow 72 under sky ~75; ruin (79-84) lighter than the band (64-67) behind it; reflection in the sheet below."
    },
    {
      "item": "hue_relations",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the walker's warm umber and the ruin's warm cream stone are the warm pair, with the reeds; ice and lead blue, band blue-grey, snow and sky near neutral."
    },
    {
      "item": "path_continuity",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the ice runs from the left edge across under the walker and turns up to end at the ice sheet's edge just left of the reflection (tip near x 1820, row ~1080), short of the ruin."
    },
    {
      "item": "path_taper",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the ribbon narrows from about 12 px of lead-and-ice at the left to a thin rising stroke at its tip under the ruin."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_contrast",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the walker (L 18-38) the darkest small shape on L 72 snow, a tan light on his left edge."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_vs_path",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the walker's feet on the ice ribbon (ice 44-63 against his 18-38)."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_top",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: gable tip L 79 against band 65-67 at rows 584-614; no contact with the band's top."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_base",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: base a straight edge at row 997 across the pier and arcade, marked beneath by the speckled ground line at rows 1000-1006, the reflection below it."
    },
    {
      "item": "near_surface",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: lower half calm (spread ~0.01), faint larger pale marks near the bottom, the track of prints entering from the bottom edge at x ~110."
    },
    {
      "item": "meaning_path",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the walker crosses on the ice; the lead's dark is broken where he stands; the brook then runs away and ends at the sheet holding the ruin's image, not at the stone."
    },
    {
      "item": "meaning_light",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the pier's left face warm and lightest (80-84), the arcade and fragment greyer and cooler to the right; walker's left edge lit tan; short soft film at his feet, small strip at the fragment's foot."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_facing",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: walker leans toward the right, one long stride, a round dark bundle at his chest."
    },
    {
      "item": "figure_scale",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: walker ~120 px tall against an open field the full width; the ruin about ten of his heights, set far back on the same ground."
    },
    {
      "item": "destination_reading",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the ruin found by its own light against the band, mirrored below the ground line; the brook stops at its image."
    },
    {
      "item": "palette_logic",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the only warmth is the walker, the stone and the reeds; everything between is cold grey-blue and near-neutral."
    },
    {
      "item": "reflection",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: rows 1006-1140 under the ruin: a pale, soft, shorter image of pier, arcade and window, lighter (75-76) than the snow (72-73), now separated from the stone by the speckled ground line at rows 1000-1006."
    },
    {
      "item": "reed_fringe",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: warm reed fringe along the horizon, visible at the left (x ~170-350 display region) and beside the ruin at both its sides; thin, but present across the width."
    },
    {
      "item": "frozen_lead",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: ice ribbon its whole length with a dark blue lead down its middle, broken under the walker and closing before the ribbon's tip."
    },
    {
      "item": "track",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: a line of prints from the bottom edge (x ~110, row 1910) up to the walker, shrinking with distance."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A1",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: frozen brook with an open lead, leading from the walker toward the ruin and ending at the ice sheet holding its reflection: toward, not to."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A2",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: an east gable with a tall window, a broken arcade and a fallen wall fragment, lit, not silhouetted."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A3",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: a small dark walker mid-stride on the ice, carrying a bundle, with his track behind him."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A4",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: walker's feet at ~0.65, ruin's base at 0.52 on the same snow, now marked by the ground line; the ruin about ten walker-heights tall at about 2.7 of his distances: one ground, believable scale."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A5",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: track up from the bottom edge to the walker, the ribbon across and then turning up into the distance, ending at the reflection, which carries up into the stone."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A6",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: no glow, no trees, no birds; an even overcast; the reflection is the one device and is structural."
    },
    {
      "item": "brief_A7",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: arrangement of a walk turning into depth with the two ends at the frame edges; overcast light from the left; warm figure and stone against a cold field."
    },
    {
      "item": "lead_lightens",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: the lead is darkest across the crossing (lead flecks L ~25-40) and lightens in the rising stretch toward the sheet."
    },
    {
      "item": "path_darkest",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: as lead_lightens: darkest near, lighter in the turn into the distance."
    },
    {
      "item": "ground_line",
      "visible": true,
      "passage": "renders/n-004-2400.png: a row of grey and blue-black speckles from x ~70 to the right edge, rows 1010 (left) to 1021 (middle) to 1001 (right): densest and unmistakable under the ruin (45-83% of pixels below the reflection by 4 L at x 2100-2300; a 3-6 L trough at 600 px), faint but present across the open snow (2-11% flecked pixels, row median within 1 L of the snow). Pressure on record: the curve is shallow, a sag of about 15 px against a 2316 px chord (0.65%); at full view it reads close to level, an implied curve rather than a visible one. The ruling's 'not totally straight' is met by measure, at threshold."
    }
  ],
  "failures": [],
  "proposed": "n:4",
  "proposed_sha256": "67aa64e9a20be2867f00abbb9332328cf8af0e47fed06db4f030cd1319780791",
  "verdict": "completed",
  "t": "2026-10-11T13:25:58+00:00",
  "challenges_to_intent": [],
  "reading_disputes": [],
  "unanswered_prior": []
}