Phase 38 · travelling geometry pulse

Move the road, or just move the problem?

AT-0303 → AT-0312. Deterministic toy benchmark seed 303: a ninety-node chain, a target pair twenty-four links apart, and a corridor that travels. The traveller may only cross links the pulse has already compressed — so the honest question is not how far the traveller walked, but when the whole operation finished.

The lesson before the numbers

A travelling corridor shortens the walk and lengthens the operation.

Plain language

Controls

SeedSeed 303 reproduces the recorded travelling-pulse benchmark.Nodes — 90Places on the chain. Links are one fewer.Front speed — 1.20 links/stepHow fast the driven corridor centre is dragged along the chain.Rate cap — 0.60Largest change to one link in one step. This is the locality bound the control field cannot break.Open threshold — 0.25Compression a link must reach before the traveller is allowed across it.Amplitude price — 0.90Charge per unit of deformation squared, restoration charged at the same rate.Maintenance price — 0.00Charge per link per step for holding a standing medium ready.Crossings — 40How many travellers the infrastructure is amortized over.

Running the travelling-pulse package…