Owner's ruling: "there should be no cap on the proportion of a corridor,
especially for big buildings, the crinkliness rule is there to prevent these
becoming unpleasant spaces."
proportion_circulation was [1.5, 0.5], failing a corridor above aspect 2.57 --
at the 1.97 m minimum width the width factor allows, a corridor 5.1 m long; at
the 2.4 m target width, 6.2 m. The corpus shows the consequence: median
circulation leaf 14.3 m2 at aspect 1.67, a stubby room rather than a corridor.
The justification checks out arithmetically. The unpleasant space the cap was
standing in for is a long BURIED corridor -- and crinkliness already sends that
to zero, since a buried leaf has crink == 0. A long corridor along a facade
scores 0.90. Aspect cannot tell those two apart; crinkliness can, so the cap was
duplicating a rule that already exists and does the job better.
Shipped: proportion_circulation = None (no aspect requirement).
quality_proportion returns 1.0 for circulation, and shapecurve.leaf_constraints
yields rmax = inf so the DP agrees with the fitness instead of pruning
topologies the objective would accept. A habitable room's aspect target is
untouched. The narrow side still holds -- width_circulation keeps a corridor
>= 1.97 m, and "edge too long" still caps a single wall at 8 m.
Unlike 39.14/39.18/39.19 this DOES change the fail set, which is the point.
Across the twelve baseline artefacts it removes exactly 7 corridor proportion
fails and adds none: harbor 33/43/42 -> 33/42/40, maple 54/73/55 -> 54/71/54,
health-centre 4/9/5 -> 3/9/5, programme-house unchanged.
Also recorded in 39.22, and a retraction: hxi was titled "search is rewarded
for deleting the circulation spine", which 39.8 had already measured and
refuted -- 0 of the 7 connectivity-breaking deletions sampled were rewarded. My
own earlier comment on the bead restated that retracted claim; corrected, and
the bead retitled.
What binds next: removing the cap roughly doubles a corridor leaf's reach, from
proportion at ~6.2 m to size_circulation at 12.5 m (2.4 m wide hits the 30 m2
fail edge there). size_circulation's target area is ZERO, the other half of the
double-charge -- circulation priced as overhead once in value_circulation = 50
and again in a size factor whose optimum is non-existence. Not changed: it is a
distinct parameter with its own rationale, unruled, and 39.16 is a standing
reminder about inherited constants.
415 passed.
Refs homemaker-py-hxi.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
