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 # Perlines
 
-Perlines is the 2012 Aethervis trail idea rebuilt as a Fensalir client.
+Perlines is the 2012 Aethervis trail idea rebuilt as a Fensalir client: audio becomes a rolling field resource that Fensalir's renderer draws as a storm of curl-noise trails, with no private line renderer in the client.
 
-The Unity version owned trails through `LineRenderer` and `TrailRenderer`
-objects. This version owns only the signal: a procedural audio frame is sent
-through an FFT, adaptively whitened per band, written into a rolling Float32
-field resource, and lowered through Fensalir's TubeField path. The renderer owns
-visibility, reservoir reuse, bloom, and final reconstruction.
+**Valuable here:** the signal path. `src/Perlines/PerlinesSignalProcessor.cs` turns audio into FFT energy, adaptively whitens it per band, detects the key, and projects bins onto musical scale-note lanes. `src/Perlines/PerlinesRuntime.cs` writes one Float32 column per frame into a rolling field resource and hands it to Fensalir (`Perlin4D.cs` and `SmoothNoise.cs` supply the noise). It is a worked example of a Fensalir client that owns a signal and leaves visibility, reservoir reuse, bloom and reconstruction to the renderer.
+
+**Problem it solves:** the Unity version owned trails through `LineRenderer` and `TrailRenderer` objects, so the renderer could not reason about them. Here the renderer owns the trails and Perlines owns only the signal.
+
+**Entry points:** client project `src/Perlines/Perlines.csproj` (solution `Perlines.sln`); design and authority map in `docs/system-map.md`; launched through Fensalir's `scripts/dev-reload.ps1`. Requires a sibling checkout of `GameCult/Fensalir` (Windows, D3D12).
+
+**Status:** live as a demo. Input is a Fensalir-owned Windows system-loopback stem when one is available, otherwise a procedural fallback signal. Last commit 2026-05-31.
 
 ## Run
 
-From `E:\Projects\Fensalir`:
+From the root of the Fensalir checkout (Perlines checked out beside it):
 
 ```powershell
-.\scripts\dev-reload.ps1 -ClientProject E:\Projects\Perlines\src\Perlines\Perlines.csproj
+.\scripts\dev-reload.ps1 -ClientProject ..\Perlines\src\Perlines\Perlines.csproj
 ```
 
-Headless smoke test from Fensalir:
+Headless smoke test, also from Fensalir:
 
 ```powershell
-.\scripts\dev-reload.ps1 -Headless -ClientProject E:\Projects\Perlines\src\Perlines\Perlines.csproj
+.\scripts\dev-reload.ps1 -Headless -ClientProject ..\Perlines\src\Perlines\Perlines.csproj
 ```
 
-Headless PNG capture from this repo:
-
-```powershell
-E:\Projects\Perlines\scripts\capture-headless.ps1
-```
+`scripts/run-dev.ps1` and `scripts/capture-headless.ps1` in this repo wrap the same launch and a headless PNG capture, but both hardcode the Fensalir location as `E:\Projects\Fensalir`, which does not exist on current workstations. Edit that path before running them.
 
 ## Live Model