ROOM TO ANSWER / ART-FIRST EXPLORATORY STUDY

This is the complete record, including sealed-during-reading creator notes,
all available works, viewer interpretations, responses, judgments and failures.
These generated creator notes are intentionally public here; they were withheld
from viewers during the study. No private user conversation is included.
Use the separate fresh-viewer collection when inviting an unexposed reader.

This round was designed after the original matched-input study and user
clarification. Its protocol/rubric were locally frozen before its own creators
started. The original experiment and its results were not replaced.

Requirements for artifact checks: Python 3 and Node.js standard libraries.
From this extracted directory:
  python verify-record.py
  node check-carrier-images.cjs

Those commands write derived verification reports. They do not call a model,
reproduce a future interpretation, validate artistic ratings, or prove felt
care/freedom. Carrier recovery uses the supplied codec, not an independently
reimplemented transport. J/P artworks are native prose/JSON and are not
normalized into the Carrier matrix.

PRE-DISPATCH-FREEZE.json has a declared exception: the coordinator mistakenly
froze an append-only event log and appended dispatch entries. The frozen
inventory remains unchanged. The reports expose the whole-file mismatch and
matching original prefix; all immutable study materials are checked separately.
An interrupted model attempt is unavailable, not a zero-quality artwork.

Historical prompts and coordinator logs retain their original local paths to
preserve the record. They are not portable commands or instructions to repeat
model trials silently. Use the relative checking commands above.

Optional image rendering: optional-renderer/render_score.py requires Pillow
and the installed Windows fonts used by the original rendering. Supply explicit
--source, --frame, --out and --layout arguments. Different fonts/libraries can
change display pixels. Original verified PNGs are included; reproduction of
their decoded score does not require rendering a new illustration.

Appraisals are separate ordinal judgments, not universal aesthetic measurements.
Do not average away differences, rank media from this sample, or count missing
attempts as bad art. Native forms, tools, creators and viewers differ. C means
the specific chromatic-field/1 profile, not all of Carrier/USL.

Dictionary definitions retain original source/provenance and attribution.
Checked status does not approve a new artwork, metaphor or application.
