Prototype + validation for an exact size/width/proportion feasibility DP
over a frozen slicing topology, replacing the ~80-200 eval Nelder-Mead
inner loop's approximate answer to the same question with one bottom-up
pass (experiments/shapecurve_spike.py). Leaf feasible regions are exact
FAIL_THRESHOLD-inversions of fitness.py's quality_size/width/proportion;
internal-node composition runs on a shared discretised grid.
Validated on harbor-house-l0 (experiments/validate_shapecurve.py, 200
random topologies vs NM minimising shape-fail-count directly): 99.0%
agreement (0 false negatives), 93.6x speedup at grid_n=150, plot-level
bbox approximation error quantified at +7.5% (root-causing both observed
false positives). All three acceptance criteria cleared -- see DESIGN.md
§37.2 for full results and the caveats/scope not covered (multi-storey,
leaf_sharing/co_type, true skew-quad regions). Kept as a reference spike,
same status as experiments/autodiff_spike.py (§34); production wiring
into driver.py filed as homemaker-py-6xh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSwQwpEaHFBkeVSDDWd75S
