Optical Closure — Terminology Glossary¶

Project Optical Closure · Language Reference

validated hit remains sovereign: The existing hit system (RayBeamRenderer → HitPayload → HadHit) is the only authoritative intersection event. No code in Phase 1 introduces a competing intersection path.
post-hit optical probe interpretation: Computation that happens after the validated hit produces a surface contact, using only the data that hit already produced (position, normal, collider ID, transport classification). No new intersection occurs.
probe metadata: A lightweight resource declaring probe sphere center, radius, role, and material parameters. Used only for post-hit UV computation and diagnostic classification. Not intersection configuration.
observer-dependent optical accessibility: A post-hit diagnostic describing whether a declared probe-region is visually sampled by the existing validated transport result from a given observer pose. Not hermetic closure. Not a transport classification.
transport-mediated appearance: How a surface looks through the curved-ray transport model from a given observer position. Different from how the surface would look under straight-line transport.
diagnostic overlay: A visual output derived from post-hit interpretation data. UV map, checker overlay, or accessibility class map. Not transport truth. Not validation evidence.
hermetic closure: The validated transport property: every pixel in the output grid is classified (hit or miss). Defined by ClosureValidator. Unchanged by Project Optical Closure.
optical closure (use with care): An interpretive concept: a probe region that is not sampled by any ray from the current observer's transport result. Not the same as hermetic closure. Do not use as a raw pixel classification until observer sweeps have validated the behavior. Prefer probe_region_not_sampled or closure_candidate until then.
probe_region_not_sampled: The preferred diagnostic state label when the probe's declared region of interest is not reached by the current observer's transport result. Replaces "optically closed" until validated.
closure candidate: A pixel or region where probe_region_not_sampled is observed and consistent across a range of nearby observer poses. May be promoted to "optical closure" after observer sweep validation.
simulation-bounded claim: A statement about what the simulation produces, explicitly bounded to the simulation. Does not extend to claims about physical reality.
reproducible fixture: A declared, pinned fixture that produces the same output on any clone of the repository. OC-001 is a reproducible fixture once implemented.
inspiration, not evidence: The distinction between lore/mythology as creative fuel and lore/mythology as proof. MisterY Labs treats the former as inspiration for measurable experiments, not as conclusions to validate.
epistemic tier: One of six categories — Established Mathematics, Implemented Engine Behavior, Validated Fixture Output, Experimental Interpretation, Lore/Artistic Inspiration, Open Questions — used to label every claim on the site.
curiosity is welcome; conclusions are earned: The project's anchor phrase for community framing. The question is the invitation; the reproducible fixture is the answer's boundary.