Monorepo for Aesthetic.Computer aesthetic.computer

[papers] civic AC-freaks hero crossfade — diverse cast hacking off the preprints master

Replaces the four first-person POV / lone-jeffrey hero slides on papers.aesthetic.computer with three civic horizontal tableaux of a real diverse public reading the cream-paper preprints AND immediately getting on with their own wild projects inspired by them. Jeffrey appears once per scene at peer eye-level, distributing papers — not centered, not a host. Every peer carries a uniform Citrus / chartreuse-green MacBook Neo; the laptops are the shared spine, the papers are the shared provocation, the wild projects are the shared response. Three new headers (1536x1024, gpt-image-2, --quality high): v5 — civic hacker reading-and-making commons in a public library (oak table + brass lamps + bookshelves; cast = grad student, businessman with soldering iron, retired judge with breadboard, teenager patching a modular synth, cardiganed woman tuning a theremin/ukulele, woman with tangled orange/blue patch cables; jeffrey mid-handoff in white shirt). Beakers, breadboards, cables, scopes co-exist with the preprints. v6 — civic news-stand morning under a stone courthouse colonnade (stacked preprints + adjacent open-air workbenches; cast = robed judge receiving from jeffrey at the kiosk, businesswoman with chemistry beaker on a hot-plate, navy-suited statesman reading, older gentleman with a circuit-bent box on the steps, high-school girl tuning a homemade theremin antenna on a column). v7 — elementary school music-and-maker classroom (upright piano + windowed back wall; cast = four-five mixed kids 6-12 + the music teacher + jeffrey crouched at child eye-level distributing). Network cables draped, breadboards, beakers of colored water, modular synths, oscilloscope, plus tambourines / recorders / xylophones / ukuleles in the same frame as the chartreuse Neos. Each Neo screen shows real, varied content — terminals, kidlisp paint pieces, code editors, paper-draft layouts, oscilloscope traces, network diagrams — never mirrors the surrounding scene (an earlier pass tried recursive thumbnails on every screen; that read as "every laptop has the same image on it" and was wrong). Site changes: - /papers-header-v5.png (LCP preload, fetchpriority=high), v6, v7 - SLIDES array in index.html updated to 3-slide rotation with focal anchors tuned to each scene's faces band - Old papers-header.png / -v1 / -v3 / -v4 PNGs left on disk in system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/ as fallback Generated via portraits/jeffrey/bin/generate-neo.py with the canonical SHOOT_REFS for jeffrey identity; all other figures are distinct people, not jeffrey-clones. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>