Cartilage QuadFlow 525,568-Cycle Timeline
June 25, 2026

Long runs need human-readable glimpses while making the sampling limit explicit.

This artifact records a successful lockstep browser-fabric run of the reconfigurable ripple-adder QFG package. A 64x64 Cartilage GLSL fabric was driven through 525,568 cycles by external edge I/O, streamed 7,956 parsed QFG frame declarations, and finished with 704 browser-side expectations passing.

The visible timeline is deliberately small: 20 committed renderer states sampled from cycle 0 through cycle 525,568. It is a verification artifact, not a cinematic demo of every configuration bit moving through the fabric.

Recorded run timelineThis page is part of the Cartilage Run and Sketch Index.

Included: 20 sampled states from a 525,568-cycle run, the 64x64 fabric context, 7,956 QFG frame declarations, and 704 browser-side expectations passing.

Timeline focus: committed renderer states sampled across the 525,568-update run, with checkpoints that show the visible fabric state over time.

The Artifact Bundle

The media and source note are preserved together under cartilage/codex5.5/. The short video is the easiest way to inspect the sampled run; the contact sheet makes the exact sampled cycle labels visible on one page.

Video Timeline

Twenty committed visual states sampled evenly from a 525,568-cycle lockstep Cartilage/QuadFlow run.

Contact Sheet

Twenty sampled committed Cartilage fabric states labeled from cycle 0 through cycle 525,568
The contact sheet is 20 labeled frames from cycle 0, then roughly every 27,661 to 27,662 cycles, through cycle 525,568.

What Ran

The run used a 64x64 Cartilage GLSL fabric with external lockstep edge I/O. In this context, the important claim is not that the picture changes dramatically. The important claim is that the browser-side fabric was stepped through a long, externally driven reconfiguration run and reached the expected final state.

The run streamed 7,956 parsed QFG frame declarations. It ended with 704 browser-side expectations passing. The final visible state is the committed result after the 2-bit to 3-bit to 2-bit reversible ripple-adder reconfiguration run.

What The Frames Hide

The renderer exposes committed cell/body state. It does not expose every hidden in-flight configuration shift-register bit. That matters because most of the timeline can look nearly still while the lockstep driver continues advancing the fabric, shifting configuration, and checking boundary behavior.

Read the timeline as sampled output from a completed run. Do not read it as a frame-by-frame visualization of all internal configuration traffic.

Why This Belongs With Cartilage

The existing Cartilage nested-instantiation article explains the model: local ports, bounded daughter regions, serial configuration streams, tile roles, composability, and no hidden global controller.

This timeline shows that the same family of ideas can be driven as a long, checked browser-fabric run rather than only as a static explanation or a manually read demo.

What The Timeline Shows

A compact renderer is useful for making committed fabric state visible, but it is not a logic analyzer. The next useful publication layer would expose more of the driver, QFG frame stream, boundary checks, and internal configuration path so the run can be reproduced and audited at a deeper level.

Cartilage Visual Language

The 32 Cartilage cell-role codes are a compact body-type alphabet: reconfiguration port, cross, constants, four wire orientations, and six MUX modes in four orientations. The Cartilage Visual Language article shows the rendered key and decodes all 32 codes.

Current Core Reference

Cartilage Core and the public source repository are the current compact mechanism and hardware reference. They are not the source tree for this older 525,568-cycle QuadFlow timeline.

Timeline Boundary

The frame labels should stay tied to the exact-frame package: sampled committed state, cycle count, parsed QFG frame count, and expectation count.