nx_percept.nx

nx_percept.nx -- AL2: THE PERCEPTUAL JUDGE (operator 2026-08-09: EXCEED needs a human-confirmed perceptual win; the composite critic is CONVICTED as quality -- random squares score 628 on it). This organ does NOT claim absolute quality. It claims RELATIVE PERCEPTUAL POSITION: a candidate's multi-scale structure statistics compared against TWO banked anchor sets -- GOOD = the 10 commercial reference frames (the estate's benchmark artifacts, gate-floored) JUNK = the caricature controls (flat colour, random-squares mosaic) score = sim(candidate, GOOD centroid) - sim(candidate, JUNK centroid), permil cosine, integer. ADMISSION IS EARNED, NEVER ASSUMED: the `ladder` verb replays the HUMAN-CONFIRMED ordering from 2026-08-09 (flat < squares < m2d frame < craft frame; every reference above squares, LEAVE-ONE-OUT so an anchor never scores against a centroid containing itself). If the ladder does not reproduce the human ordering, the judge REFUSES ITSELF -- numbers published either way, all values printed. Features (integer, per NXFH1 400x240 frame): 7-bin hue-order histogram + 3-scale block-delta histograms (2/8/32 px, 8 bins each) + edge-direction distribution (H/V/diag + density) + horizontal same-run length histogram (8 log bins). Each family permil-normalized => 43 dims, cosine compared. license_tier: ORIGINAL expect_exit: 0