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# Newbury Exhibit v2
Fan-made shared multi-viewer AR experience for a physical LEGO® Hidden Side™ town
display. Multiple phones point at printed ArUco markers ("Newbury Crests") and see
the same server-driven ghosts anchored to real-world positions, each from their own
viewpoint. Tribute project — not affiliated with or endorsed by the LEGO Group.
## Stack
Node 20 (Express + ws) in Docker · Three.js r160 (CDN import map) · js-aruco2
(ARUCO_4X4_1000, vendored) · vanilla ES-module client.
## Units
**All world coordinates are centimetres** (1 Three.js unit = 1 cm): anchor/spawn/building
positions and sizes, wander radius, calibration readouts. Marker print size stays in mm
(`sizeMM`); the mm→cm conversion happens once in `fuse.js`.
## Baked-in AR fixes (hard-won, do not "simplify" these)
- **POS-IT pose**: **raw** centered image coords into POS-IT (no Y pre-flip — pre-flipping
double-inverts the vertical axis and makes tilt respond backwards); rotation used
**as-is**; translation **Y and Z negated** (`-t[1]`, `-t[2]`). A/B toggle: `FLIP_INPUT_Y`
in `public/js/ar/pose.js`.
- **Planar-ambiguity flips**: per-marker temporal consistency — pick the POS-IT solution
closest to the previous frame (`public/js/ar/pose.js`).
- **Phantom marker IDs**: `maxHammingDistance: 0` (`public/js/ar/detect.js`).
- **Multi-marker flicker**: confidence-weighted quaternion slerp fusion, hemisphere-aligned,
weighted by marker screen area (`public/js/ar/fuse.js`). Place anchors densely so ≥2
crests are visible from any viewing angle.
- **Vendor load order matters**: `cv → svd → posit1 → aruco → dictionary`.
## Features
- **Playlist engine** (server-driven, all viewers in sync): N concurrent ghosts,
per-ghost dwell time then rotate through the whole roster, shuffle/roster order,
color/rarity filters, optional time-of-day windows, crossfade in/out.
- **Behaviors**: static float (bob + idle sway) or wander (deterministic orbit-drift —
a pure function of server spawn record + wall clock, so every phone computes the
same motion with zero position streaming). Wander is 3D: horizontal radius plus a
configurable vertical amplitude (`wanderVertical`, cm).
- **Anchors ("Newbury Crests")**: flat (horizontal) / wall (vertical) / custom mounts,
fully editable — position, yaw/pitch/roll trim, printed size, enable toggle.
- **3D layout editor** (`/admin/layout.html`): Three.js orbit view with drag gizmos
(5 mm snap, green arrow = height) for anchors, occlusion buildings, and spawn points —
spawn Y is fully editable so ghosts can live at any height. Anchors render through the
exact same `anchorWorldMatrix` the AR pipeline uses, each with a white orientation arrow;
compass rose on the grid (N = +Z = back of table). Top-view button, property panel,
save/reset-to-seed.
- **Playlist manager** (`/admin/playlist.html`), **crest print sheet** (`/admin/print.html`,
true-to-size), **calibration** (`/admin/calibrate.html`: live distance/angle/jitter +
fused pose), **client error log** (`/admin/errors.html`).
- **Occlusion**: buildings render as invisible depth-only volumes so ghosts pass behind them.
- **Multi-part OBJ ghosts**: legs/wisp + torso + head + headpiece assembled and tinted with
the recovered Hidden Side gradient shader (Red/Angry, Yellow/Crazy, Blue/Sad). Procedural
wisp fallback until models are dropped into `public/models/` and listed in the model
manifest (`GET/PUT /api/models`).
## Modes
- `EXHIBIT_MODE=dev` — admin pages open, on-screen client error overlay, errors reported
to `/api/client-errors`.
- `EXHIBIT_MODE=final` — admin + setup pages require `ADMIN_PASSWORD` (12 h tokens).
## Run
```bash
cp .env.example .env # set mode + password
docker compose up -d --build
# http://host:33044 → viewer
# http://host:33044/admin/layout.html → admin
```
Live edits (layout, playlist, models) persist in the `exhibit-live` volume and survive
rebuilds; `POST /api/scene/reset` restores the committed seed.
## Deploy on blackpearl
```bash
git clone https://gitea.hideawaygaming.com.au/jessikitty/newbury-exhibit-v2.git
cd newbury-exhibit-v2 && cp .env.example .env && bash deploy.sh
```
Then nginx-proxy 33044 with HTTPS (camera + sensors require a secure context).
## Adding your OBJ ghost models
1. Drop parts into `public/models/<id>/` (e.g. `legs.obj`, `torso.obj`, `head.obj`, `headpiece.obj`).
2. Register via the models API (or edit `data/models.json` seed):
```json
{ "models": [ { "id": "minifig", "scale": 1.0, "parts": {
"legs": "/models/minifig/legs.obj", "torso": "/models/minifig/torso.obj",
"head": "/models/minifig/head.obj", "headpiece": "/models/minifig/headpiece.obj" } } ] }
```
The gradient shader recolors every part by the ghost's color type automatically.