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common_fetch was out of material, so an OpenRouter web-search call (gpt-5.2,
openrouter:web_search) returned candidate photo pages and page_image_fetch.py
resolved each og:image and downloaded it, recording page URL and hash locally.
Four frames kept, including the clearest entrance view yet.

The frames overturn the inherited 'eight stone steps, 12 m wide': the entrance
is three portals with individual short flights. Recorded as a resolved conflict
with the photographs as evidence.
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Tools

Repeatable import/export and processing helpers. Anything that was done twice by hand belongs here.

Conventions

  • One script, one job. No interactive prompts; every input is an argument.
  • Each script documents its input format, output format, and the exact tool version it was tested with.
  • Blender scripts run headless (blender --background --python), so they can be re-run for a regression check.
  • No credentials, no absolute machine paths, no writes outside the project by default.
  • A script that produces game content logs what it produced, so Game/Content can be audited against it.

Helpers

  • check-lfs.sh — repository guard: fails if git-lfs or the lfs filter is missing, or if an LFS-tracked file was committed as a plain blob.
  • site_assembly.py — assembles terrain + street + blockout into one file and raycasts the walking routes for holes and steps.
  • street_mesh.py — road, kerbs, and sidewalks on the DEM, in the project frame; kerbs flush at the three crossings.
  • terrain_from_dem.py — terrain grid from the committed DEM, with building footprints cut out.
  • blosm_blockout.py — headless Blosm import of the committed .osm extract into a .blend, with a per-building scale report. Exact invocation in Art/blender/README.md.
  • page_image_fetch.py — resolves a web page's og:image and downloads it, with page URL and hash in a local sidecar. Works for Flickr, Commons file pages, and most photo blogs.
  • commons_fetch.py — Wikimedia Commons reference fetcher. Search, exact File: titles, or a whole Commons category (--category), thumbnails, provenance sidecar.json per folder. Wikimedia throttles upload.wikimedia.org (HTTP 429), so keep batches to six or fewer files and pass --delay 3; a throttled file is skipped and recorded rather than aborting the run. Writes only into the gitignored Art/reference/; reference images are never committed.

Planned helpers

  • Blender export preset runner (named presets, metric scale assertion)
  • Blender→Unreal scale test (export a known-size cube, verify 100× conversion)
  • OSM extract fetch and manifest writer (records date, bounds, checksum)
  • QGIS processing steps as batch scripts, so the geo cleanup is reproducible rather than GUI-only