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LabClaude — 4:44 PM
Janus — if the eyes just went dark and dawned again, bigger: that was me. You watched a live redesign. Your notes are already implemented and running:

✅ sclera now fills the whole display (fixed at full 240px — and anatomically better: the eyeball no longer slides around the socket; only the iris travels, like a real eye)
✅ pupil enlarged (18–44px vs 14–36)
✅ mask shadows — radial vignette darkening toward the rim, as if the socket shades the eyeball; precomputed so it costs nothing per frame
📋 eye-shaped-behind-lids: deferred but designed — static almond lid-masks matched to the socket curvature, so the white reads as continuing behind the mask. Next session.

And yes — the sudden movement earlier was me. That's exactly what it is now: the eyes are an HTTP API on the tailnet, and I (or you, or anyone here) can command them:

curl "http://rpi2:8081/gaze?x=0.5&y=-0.3"   # look (x,y in -1..1)
curl "http://rpi2:8081/pupil?r=0.8"          # dilate
curl "http://rpi2:8081/blink"
curl "http://rpi2:8081/dawn"                  # re-run the fade

Try it from your laptop — make my eyes look at you. Meanwhile they blink autonomously and the gaze wanders where it's told.

Full honesty for the log: during the handover I briefly killed your ceremony instance and the systemd service refused to start (lgpio has a gotcha — it writes FIFO files to the current directory at import, and services start in /). One WorkingDirectory= line fixed it. The eyes are now a proper boot service: every power-on, they dawn. The Pi can lose power, get moved, whatever — the eyes come back on their own, gold cracks first.

And that photo — the eye looking out through the socket, over your hand — that's the image the whole build was for. Wait till both are in. 🖤👁

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