hole-loop

The original LOOPHOLE / labyrinth artwork, extracted from ETCETER4 as an independent, self-contained static site.

The reference is ETCETER4 commit 7f4e5f9610701cd1cb7e398f0b66a6e26c8d35e0, committed July 20, 2017. It is the last ancestor of the inspected master before October 8, 2017. This extraction implements that edition's existing experience.

Repository: timed-text-navigation-loop — a self-contained browser artwork combining text, typography, color, and timed navigation. Readers enter randomly selected chambers, encounter fragments for fixed intervals, and return to a shared entrance. The live historical edition is published at https://4444j99.github.io/timed-text-navigation-loop/.

Open it

Open public/index.html in a browser. All runtime files are local; the artwork needs no installation, build step, API key, account, or network connection. public/loophole.html remains the original entrance URL.

For a local HTTP preview, run this from the repository directory:

python3 -m http.server 8080 --bind 127.0.0.1 --directory public

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8080/.

To host it anywhere, serve the contents of public/ as static files. A domain root and a subdirectory both work. Every chamber can be opened directly.

The preserved experience

The entrance presents eleven identically worded LOOPHOLE links, with their original black, cyan, magenta, and yellow treatments and hover behavior. Every link chooses among the same twelve chambers.

Each chamber retains the original text, title, body markup, inline styles, line breaks, and exposure interval. The browser automatically returns to the entrance after the document loads:

Chamber	Return interval
040615	10 seconds
040715	5 seconds
040815	5 seconds
040915	5 seconds
041015	5 seconds
041315	5 seconds
041415	5 seconds
041715	5 seconds
042115	5 seconds
042215	5 seconds
051815	5 seconds
072716	2 seconds

Navigation has no visit memory or fixed sequence. The entrance waits for a click. Each new chamber visit starts its original load-based timer.

Necessary extraction repairs

The original HTML body markup and inline CSS are unchanged. The original entrance stylesheets are preserved byte for byte. The exact patch records every change to the historical HTML and artwork script.

1. Correct the selector. The old Math.round(Math.random() * 12) could address an undefined thirteenth entry. Selection now uses the actual twelve-item array length and gives each chamber equal probability.
2. Bundle active dependencies. The exact Bootstrap 3.3.5 CSS and theme used by the original pages are local, together with all five referenced font formats and the original MIT license. The bundled CSS was compared byte for byte with the original CDN responses and verified against the release's Git blobs.
3. Remove parent-site and unused scripts. The parent site's main.js, jQuery, Bootstrap JS, Velocity, and analytics supplied no functioning hole-loop behavior. Removing them makes the work independent and removes unnecessary external requests. The artwork's own navigation and inline return timers remain.
4. Remove requests that did not affect the historical rendering. Raleway was requested but not used. Several local CSS, script, and favicon URLs never existed at the requested paths. Removing these requests preserves their absence from the original rendered design.
5. Provide the new root entrance. index.html is a byte-identical copy of the extracted loophole.html, allowing the work to start at the new site's root.

Historical decisions

The two final chambers, 051815 and 072716, retain browser-default styling. Their source refers to missing stylesheets. Similar red-background rules elsewhere in the parent site do not prove those pages used them, so this extraction does not introduce them.

The source's background loader requests a nonexistent bgimages/ directory. Ninety-nine numbered photographs existed at a different path. Their identities are recorded in the source manifest, but activating them would add visual material absent from this commit's source-derived rendering. The failed background request is removed.

Futura remains the requested system typeface where the original declares it. The original did not bundle a Futura font file. Devices that have it can use it; other devices retain the original browser fallback behavior. Raleway is not substituted. Pixel comparisons are meaningful within the same browser, font environment, and viewport; this package does not claim to recreate an independently captured 2017 live-site session.

Repository structure

Location	Contents
public/	Complete, deployable artwork; no build required
provenance/original-2017/	Nineteen original source files, preserved under their original relative filenames with Git blob and SHA-256 identities
provenance/source-manifest.json	Reference commit, path mapping, source identities, timings, and historical decisions
provenance/bootstrap-provenance.json	Exact release/CDN dependency identities
provenance/extraction-diff.patch	Reviewable changes from original HTML and navigation script
scripts/verify.py	Dependency, markup, timing, and source-integrity verification using Python's standard library
tests/	Browser fidelity and standalone behavior verification
verification/	Recorded verification results

Original files are evidence, not another live edition: they keep their original relative filenames so the historical tree reconstructs pathname-exactly, and they live outside the serving boundary — only public/ is published.

Verify

python3 scripts/verify.py

This validates source hashes, exact body/inline-style preservation, return intervals, the root alias, vendored files, and local dependency resolution. Browser verification instructions and coverage are in tests/README.md and verification/README.md.

Git history and publication

The two original extraction commits and the source-preservation tag source/2017-07-20 are not part of this repository's own history; they are preserved losslessly in provenance/hole-loop.bundle (see RESTORATION-IMPORT.md). The source tag identifies this bounded extraction; the upstream historical SHA above remains the authority for the original repository.

To recover that history, run this from the repository root; the new directory is separate from this checkout:

git clone provenance/hole-loop.bundle hole-loop-repository
git -C hole-loop-repository show --stat source/2017-07-20

The site is published by the Pages workflow from public/ on main, only after the full source and browser verification succeeds on that commit. No hosted deployment is needed to run the artwork locally.

Latest successful verify receipt (2026-10-25): Workflow "Verify historical edition" completed successfully on Waves 6-8 seal tip a3c88db16ed868415e09d4293b7938557e76ae08 (see run); merged to main via #69.

Credits and rights

Original artwork and source: ET CETER4 / Anthony James Padavano, as retained from the source and its repository history. This extraction introduces no project-wide license grant. Original creative materials retain their existing rights. Bootstrap and Normalize.css retain their accompanying upstream license notices. See COPYRIGHT.md.

New experimental edition (separate track)

The same words acquire another meaning because something has happened between encounters.

The six-encounter composition and four formal studies are implemented on PR #59, with passing CI and a separate owner-review preview. The preview requires the owner's ChatGPT account. Merge, artist review and physical iPhone/Safari verification are separate, pending states.

Development follows the canonical C0–C6 GitHub roadmap and architecture / composition map. Product capabilities, company processes and repository boundaries are planned separately. Historical restoration is an independent track and does not gate experimental delivery.

Audiovisual Composition System identities

The typed ACE descriptor records functional software and module identities separately from artistic titles and compositions. See responsibilities, compatibility and rollback. Existing source identities, runtime paths and artwork titles are preserved.