Instrument 006 · the reading, in one object

The Sounding Table

Your radar, rendered as its read. Data composes the terrain — no physical return; height is the coupling coordinate α, capped by a glass ceiling at α=2 the peaks approach and never pierce. Orbit to read it moving (SAR); push K and the table churns beneath you (ISAR). Drop a read and three ghosted lanes project forward — evolve, hold, dissolve — inferred, not resolved. It halts on convergence, not completion. A compass, not a map.

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a compass, not a map

Situation display

blipnow
trackbehind
predictedinferred
 
d =  ·  β = 6/23
α vs looks
drop a read, then converge

The read

SAR
ISAR
K  spin rate0.15

What it will not do

data-in-hand · no physical return — the data is summed directly into the field
support boundary · no terrain composed beyond the data
basepoint · the instrument cannot read its own anchor
predicted-track · corridors the substrate may enter — not forecasts, no probabilities
α=2 · a threshold crossed, never occupied