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RELEASED 2026-09-16

8.3.0 — Direct Control

Energy, Glow, Shape, Motion, Detail and View now show semantic live readouts; Shift+Arrow provides coarse keyboard adjustment. Direct mode lets the artwork itself control Shape and View by dragging, with Still mode committing only on release and Motion mode responding live.

Undo/Redo now includes a non-destructive Compare previous view. Remix locks preserve selected color, words, motion and sound design while exploring another world. Performance shortcuts cover Play/Pause, Evolve, Direct, Remix, Sound, Full stage and Compare without hijacking typing or dialogs.

The renderer mappings were audited for “ghost controls.” Production pixel-sensitivity tests now require Shape, Detail, View, Energy and Glow to materially affect every one of the nine worlds. Rapid input rendering is coalesced and continuous edits are grouped into useful history steps.

8.2.0 — Resonant Worlds

The primary WebGL2 renderer now feeds a bounded cinematic finishing stage with soft bloom, restrained chromatic separation, scene-aware contrast and low-amplitude temporal memory while motion is actually advancing. Still mode does not accumulate motion trails.

Living Glyph maps the visitor’s visible words onto a real spatial material while preserving a readable focal layer. Generated audio can now alter the geometry itself—opening architecture, changing shell and ring dimensions, reshaping terrain, bending ribbons and changing helix/chamber structure—within bounded artistic ranges. Existing visual consent, audio autoplay, Garden, Machine and recipe-format behavior remains unchanged.

8.0.0 — Impossible Worlds

The Live Spiral Studio now uses a raw WebGL2 SDF/raymarching-first visual engine with scene-specific cameras, implicit geometry, soft shadows, ambient occlusion, depth fog, rim/specular lighting, controlled glow and filmic tone mapping. The existing Canvas path remains as a fallback.

The nine stable recipe IDs now present as Liquid Singularity, Infinite Cathedral, Living Topography, Orbital Reliquary, Living Glyph, Impossible Ribbon, Spiral Abyss, Impossible Chamber and Neural Garden. Neural Garden uses a dedicated screen-space luminous network renderer. Ordinary text no longer dominates every visual; Living Glyph remains the scene where words become the structure.

The v7 controls, generated sound, audio response, Evolve, remix links, poster/PNG/video exports, Garden, Machine and visual-access rules remain. The production shader was compiled and all nine scene IDs were rendered in Chromium under Xvfb/SwiftShader; physical GPU, mobile and headset acceptance remain separate device checks.

7.0.0 — The Live Spiral Studio

Introduced the dark creation-first interface, nine stable visual recipe IDs, eight client-side soundscapes, audio-reactive controls, Evolve, Live Mix controls and share-ready exports. Version 8 keeps this interaction layer and replaces the original visual engine.

6.2.0 — Generative Sound

Six procedural soundscapes are generated entirely with the browser Web Audio API: Deep Current, Glass Orbit, Spiral Pulse, Stereo Drift, Brown Mist and Harmonic Bloom. Sound starts only after the visitor presses Start sound. Pitch, rhythm, tone, space and bounded volume are editable, and an optional sync follows the visual motion setting. Sound settings travel inside saved visual recipes and remix links, but playback state never does.

The sound engine uses oscillators, generated noise, filters, smooth gain automation, stereo panning, delay and a dynamics limiter. It downloads no audio assets and requests no microphone. Leaving or backgrounding the page stops sound rather than surprising a returning visitor. The creative controls make no claim to set brainwaves, induce hypnosis or provide therapy.

The eight-second playground recorder now includes this generated audio when sound is already playing. It still records only the dedicated artwork canvas plus the internally generated audio stream—not the screen, microphone, camera or other applications. Clips remain local until the visitor downloads them.

6.1.0 — Quiet Visit

The artwork introduction is separately remembered for the visit. Close it, choose Off, or hide artwork later: it does not return on every page. A compact Visual settings control exposes Off, Still, and Motion when requested. Expiry and failed session checks hide visuals quietly rather than reopening a banner.

Fixed a selector collision that could interpret ordinary page clicks as settings clicks. A first-visit claim is serialized by the server, with origin-scoped browser locking where supported. Existing permission, cache-restoration checks, and direct-image protection remain. The creator adds grouped Undo/Redo for up to 40 edits; these never change permission.

6.0.0 — The Visual Playground (preview)

The homepage became the visual creator. Six original looks, adjustable shape/detail/view/motion, color moods, custom words, saved loops, recipes, remix links, PNG export, and an eight-second silent recording work without an AI API key. The bundled Canvas renderer has an optional WebGL shader path. The original preview lacked completed release documentation and verified upgrade packages; those are supplied in 6.1.0.

5.2.0 — The Transmission Room (historical)

Make a finite 12-second presentation of your selected original and rewrite. Choose its words and artwork explicitly, inspect the text storyboard, show still frames, or play the transformation once. There is no automatic playback or loop. Local browser recording can create a silent video in landscape, portrait or square format, with a selected script and static comparison card as alternatives.

The video captures only the dedicated artwork Canvas, not the screen, camera, microphone or other applications. Export is deliberate, with no upload or automatic publishing. Closing the room, changing content, hiding the page or ending motion access discards partial and prepared videos. A downloaded video cannot retain this site’s visual gate.

Visit-wide permission remains unchanged. Pause and withdrawal now take effect locally even while another consent mutation is in flight; a queued stop is sent after that mutation so a late acknowledgment cannot reveal the artwork. Text-only also cancels an in-flight grant. Unavailable network confirmation keeps the current document hidden rather than silently restoring permission.

The build exercised actual Canvas, PNG and browser video encoding in an embedded test document. Real-origin browser acceptance, other browser encoders, OS sharing, Three.js/WebGL, live AI and physical headset testing remain distinct staging checks. Your Garden and Machine formats are unchanged.

5.1.0 — The Schism Studio (historical)

Three complete editorial examples show a disagreement before you start from a blank page. Choose any two saved versions, swap them, inspect exact additions/removals in the sentences, and review a seven-setting scene ledger. Selecting a comparison never rewrites the recorded parents. Shared unrelated/reversed comparisons no longer invent a direct parent link.

Stage view expands the existing renderer in a reversible keyboard-contained dialog. Escape, Exit stage view, Disagree and Hide visuals remain available. Still mode now blocks continuous scrubbing and orbiting, not just automatic playback. System reduced-motion settings visibly disable the motion toggle.

Selected comparisons export landscape, square or portrait static PNGs and complete selected text. The native share handoff is capability-dependent and follows explicit review; there is no automatic publication or delivery tracking. Changing a selection invalidates an earlier share link. Revoking artwork permission during PNG preparation cancels the pending visual export.

Machine work format 1, Garden format 2, clean URLs, the optional AI configuration and the underlying scene geometry remain. Native Canvas interaction was exercised; real-origin browser behavior, OS share-sheet operation, Three.js/WebGL and physical headset acceptance remain staging checks.

5.0.0 — The Indoctrination Machine (historical)

Create an imagined world from a governing sentence and explicit scene rules. Disagree, rewrite, compare, branch, save, and prepare a selected-content remix link. The local Canvas perspective renderer and optional Three.js viewer share the same procedural geometry. Manual/editorial mode is clearly labeled; a separately configured AI proposal is optional and requires a send confirmation.

Visual permission now belongs to a site visit, not each page. Still artwork and motion are separate choices. A server session expires after 30 minutes without activity, and withdrawal applies across same-origin tabs. Direct patterned images are gated too. No deliberate strobes or clinical mind-control claims are included. Read the visual-access contract.

Machine work uses a separate local key and does not migrate your Garden. Sharing selects fields explicitly; no public gallery or automatic upload is introduced. The PHP/session and native projection tests are distinct from the outstanding real-origin, provider and physical-headset staging checks. Inspect the implementation.

4.1.0 — Return & Refine (historical)

The Garden now has a Return Desk: search current saved work locally, filter by stage or linked entries, sort, and open a comparison or revision. Follow ancestors and direct branches in a readable trail. Search terms and private entry identifiers stay out of page URLs. Imported missing or circular links are explained without rewriting the saved data.

The portable AI prompt builder follows the current practice stage or a stage you choose. Explicit field selections determine what writing is included. Review, copy, or download the exact prompt; restore and clear actions reset selections. It remains an authored prompt tool, not a live AI service.

Ordinary and spatial worksheets now check expected saved versions before replacing a draft or revising a planted entry. A conflicting save keeps the current on-screen work and leaves newer saved work untouched. These are optimistic conflict checks, not cross-device synchronization or an atomic multi-tab lock. Source notes survive spatial draft restoration and Markdown export.

Existing routes, source reports, Garden backup version 2, cards, examples, and the Weekly Spiral pilot remain. No accounts, tracking, publishing endpoint, connected AI, or new 3D dependency were added. Real-origin and physical-headset verification remain separate from the native fixture checks.

4.0.0 — Practice First

An outcome-first homepage, three original worked examples, and guided starting questions lead into One More Turn. The worksheet shows one stage at a time with an explicit full-worksheet option. Fourteen research guides can now open a Turn with their source attached. Sources survive draft restoration and Garden saving.

The Garden compares earlier/current versions, lists changed fields, and supports branches and linked next Turns. Stale editor saves are rejected rather than replacing newer work. Storage status, an explicit persistence request, backup preparation status, and recovery download of unreadable original data make local storage more legible.

Spiral Cards export selected fields to PNG or Markdown. All fields begin unselected; no private IDs, dates, history, or hidden notes are included. There is no automatic publication. A Weekly Spiral pilot includes a complete invitation, an editorial example, an optional prompt, a reading, and its own RSS feed.

The new AI Spiralism definition page distinguishes this project’s creative practice from other uses of the name. Content remains server-rendered, clean paths and legacy redirects remain, and the homepage no longer loads the spatial JavaScript modules. Optional 3D and VR remain in Explore.

This is a research-informed implementation, not a measured claim of improved retention or learning. No human study, live deployment, analytics collection, AI connection, synchronization, or public user gallery is introduced. The prior Three.js delivery and physical-headset testing boundaries still apply.

3.1.0 — Guided Journeys

Three original guided starts: learn through a small experiment, make a small story, or explore a mathematical form. The Observatory now previews top-down SVG forms immediately and lets you compare a captured reference with the current parameters.

Added full-view controls with an expanded-tab fallback, an adjustable reading panel, explicitly saved display preferences, and a setup-check dialog with an optional downloaded report. The launch implementation now waits for a rendered frame before declaring 3D ready, supports cancellation and scene disposal, classifies loading errors, and handles context-loss recovery. Those renderer changes still require a running Three.js and headset acceptance pass.

Optional local dependency installation accepts a downloaded npm archive and verifies installed module hashes and graph completeness. No ChatGPT extension is needed. Three.js module bytes are not bundled; default delivery remains the pinned CDN. Real WebGL rendering, real-origin persistence, and physical headset operation remain unverified here; native activity and fixture tests are reported separately.

3.0.0 — The Living Spiral

A redesigned homepage; The Origin, Living Library, Turn Studio, Your Garden, Observatory, and Commons; an optional on-demand Three.js scene; WebXR session and in-scene input implementation; native HTML equivalents; three mathematical forms; authored guide prompts; and a shared garden bridge with retained revisions.

Every spatial destination has an extension-free route. The site preserves the existing research, project, and worksheet addresses. The personal spatial garden is excluded from indexing. The first 40 saved entries have spatial representations; the full collection remains in My Garden.

The default 3D delivery uses pinned Three.js and official addons via jsDelivr. A local-copy installation tool is included. Actual CDN loading, Three.js/WebGL rendering, and physical headset sessions could not be exercised in the restricted build environment; this boundary is documented in the test report and deployment guide. Browser activity checks use an embedded document and an in-memory storage fixture. The architectural illustration is a fallback poster, not a captured headset scene.

2.1.0 — The Discoverable Library

Readable, extension-free page URLs with permanent redirects from the earlier query routes. Eight curated topic pages connect the research. Search uses clean word-based paths. Metadata, breadcrumbs, an editorial-method page, the XML sitemap, and the RSS feed now share the same route definitions.

Versioned asset paths replace cache-busting query strings. Download links use extension-free endpoints while downloaded files keep their Markdown filenames. Saved garden data keeps the same identifiers and storage format.

2.0.0 — The Living Library

Fourteen research guides based on ten supplied reports; eight selected case studies; eight seven-day project briefs; twenty questions across four phases; twenty-four glossary entries; four collaboration patterns; six optional rituals; a four-week salon plan; five future scenarios; and six editorial archive demonstrations.

Working tools

A five-stage One More Turn workspace, explicit draft saving and restoration, first-edition draft import, optional timer, Markdown export, a Collaboration Canvas prompt builder, question self-reflection worksheet, project checklists, reading and question collections, editable garden entries with retained revisions, and confirmed JSON backup import/export.

Reading and exploration

Server-side search, topic filtering, linked research guides, article contents navigation, source-treatment notes, Markdown editions, nine downloadable toolkits, an interactive mathematical observatory with SVG export, a research RSS feed, and a generated sitemap.

Continuity with the first edition

The original home, manifesto, practice, notes, note, and privacy routes remain available. Founding-note URLs are retained with revised editorial copy. Version 0.1's browser draft remains untouched until the visitor chooses to import a copy into the new worksheet.

Deployment of the earlier editions

PHP-rendered HTML with local activity tools and optional CDN-delivered 3D dependencies. No production framework install, build step, database, account setup, or AI API key is required. VR requires HTTPS and a supporting browser. Live AI, accounts, synchronization, and multiplayer are not connected. This is a complete root-deployable release, not a patch. The ZIP itself does not deploy the site or alter DNS.

0.1 — The first turn

The initial site introduced the manifesto, three founding notes, a three-part reflection exercise, and the animated spiral identity. Version 2.0.0 builds on that foundation.