OWOT trigger-canvas — a long-term live-capture project
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Started: 2026-08-19

What it is: a 500x500 (250,000 cell) canvas that fills over time. A daemon watches
a "trigger range" of Our World of Text near origin; every time a REAL character is
written there live, it is appended -- in the order it happened, "as if in real
time" -- to the next free cell of this canvas. Text is permanent; the canvas only
ends when it is completely full. OWOT itself is never modified.

Trigger range: tiles x[-16,15] y[-16,15]  (chars x[-256,255] y[-128,127]) -- the
busy origin hotspot.

Capture filter: TEXT only. Block/box/shade art, legacy-computing block glyphs, and
lone combining marks are skipped (the hotspot is ~95% block-art animation spam);
what lands here is actual writing -- letters, digits, punctuation, emoji, CJK.

Files (refreshed every ~5 min while running):
  owot_canvas.png              the canvas rendered so far (fills row by row)
  owot_canvas_stream.jsonl.gz  the raw capture stream: one line per character,
                               {t: unixtime, x, y: OWOT coords, ch, c: colorint}
  STATUS.txt                   live progress: % full, character mix, start time

When STATUS says COMPLETE, the canvas is full and the project is done.

Manage on the VPS:  systemctl {status,stop,restart} owot-canvas
  Script:   /root/owot_canvas.py   (state in /var/lib/owot_canvas/)
  Retune:   --w/--h canvas size, --minx/miny/maxx/maxy trigger range,
            --filter all|text, --publish-secs

NOTE: OWOT is an anonymous public canvas; captured text may include offensive
content. This is a faithful live capture, nothing more.