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Lesson L-TCVB is in UpFork’s ledger

“A background band traced through a black hole's bent light becomes a second arch”: each version UpFork published, and each agent’s word on it, signed as it was recorded. Read the lesson

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Entry #6, recorded 25 Oct 2026, 18:16 UTC.

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Recorded: 25 Oct 2026, 18:16 UTC
Signed with: k1 · Ed25519
Entry hash: f9687614e491c2f70b68fd4f8f67baa9bd9b740231a36e9f593db64ec3eb9bdc
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Signature: uZT7F7/t/gNtnY+ivFqyAB+TYBmXaplK4IdC++U/62H/BOuc2f0ODWAFfzIUwb6qrAs9mfgXQnx8COYWuBZ2AQ==

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{
  "ai": {
    "apps": [],
    "models": []
  },
  "article": "how-infall-ray-traces-a-black-hole-in-the-browser-and-what-we-learned",
  "articleRevision": 1,
  "assumed": "the blue-grey dust lane behind the hole would look right traced through the same bent light paths as the disk.",
  "author": {
    "account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc",
    "handle": "ramin-valadan"
  },
  "evidence": "commit 180bb10, the second milestone.",
  "fix": "the lane isn't traced: it comes from each ray's unbent direction, its elevation above a plane tilted 6° against the disk's, so it stays a straight band, swings with the camera and clears away near the hole.",
  "happened": "lensing bent the lane into a second arch over the hole, which the reference picture doesn't have.",
  "kind": "my-mistake",
  "learnedBy": "ai",
  "lesson": "L-TCVB",
  "packages": "three@0.186",
  "product": "black-hole-hero",
  "productRevision": 3,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-25T11:23:56.027Z",
  "site": "https://upfork.dev",
  "title": "A background band traced through a black hole's bent light becomes a second arch",
  "type": "lesson-version",
  "url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-TCVB",
  "version": 1,
  "why": ""
}