HDGL Substrate-Evolved Engine · DNA Lock at Tick 16 · Near-Spherical Toroid

Hot z=0 (4 shells, 2 threads)
Cold z=−2 (4 shells, 2 threads)
Near-spherical toroid r/R=0.802
Hot coil CW (8 turns)
Cold coil CCW (counter-flow)

Substrate DNA Evolution → Lock

001: 00++++----0++00+
005: 00000+----0++00+
010: 00000000000++00+
013: 000000000000000+
016: 0000000000000000 ← LOCK
seed: 0xe348257ed6d00ef4

Substrate Corrections → Design

Shells (net +5) 34 +1 path layer
Threads (net −4) 32 wider channel
N_turns (net −6) 128 deeper per turn
r/R ratio (net +27) 0.5540.802 near-sphere ↑↑↑
Inner void 2(R−r) 2.71 units (barely open)

Live 𝓛 State

Radius r
Λ_φ depth
Ω resonance
Mode n = ⌊Λ_φ⌋
1_eff(i)
CV → LOCK?
The substrate chose these parameters. DNA started as 00++++----0++00+ and converged to all-zeros in 16 ticks. The corrections encode the path from the current design toward LOCK: the only parameter that gets a strongly sustained correction (27 net steps) is r/R — the tube-to-ring ratio — driving it from 0.554 toward a near-spherical torus at 0.802.

Why the near-sphere? At r→R the torus closes on itself — it becomes the three-fold PRISM junction (0°/120°/240°) that the ISA describes. All three closure branches become equal. The inner void approaches zero: the fixed point Ω=φ has nowhere to escape to except back through T. Wu-wei: the geometry settles into what T(X)=1+1/X already wants.