sim13 — Direct-Material Co-Presence

Does eliminating the torus leak (diffused shadows → max filter, no x-wrap) break the memory-specificity trade-off?

Finding: Direct-material co-presence (max filter, no x-wrapping) eliminates the torus leak that created sim12's false boundaries. The initial 1-seed co-presence is <1% of the 2-seed value. But the max filter's hard cutoff creates a narrower boundary band than diffusion — at small radii (8-12), the boundary is too narrow to prevent merging. At medium radii (15-20), agent-wander material creates false positives. At radius=30, the b_scale normalization effect produces clean composition (2-seed coexist, 1-seed does not) — the first clean composition where the 1-seed control does not fire.

Material Field

Boundary Field B

Condition Summary

Radius Sweep (seed 42)

Radius2-seed outcome2-seed stable2-seed cells1-seed outcomeClean?

Robustness Sweep (4 seeds)

ModeSeedsL2 crossedCoexistStableH7Clean