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The cockpit's static navigation and sparse live feedback did not match the expressive interface requested. This adds a coordinated motion system while preserving exact measurements and immediate keyboard control.

Landed after #23 for v0.9.0. This PR contains the animation pass.

Changes

  • Add a monotonic presentation clock with bounded page, selection, phase, modal, and results transitions. Idle effects stop after a final settled frame.
  • Assemble the block-letter brand through a scan front; sweep light across arriving content; animate a label-sized selection underline.
  • Enhance the live gauge with opposing orbital comets, measured-arc scanner, needle trails, and measured peak marker. Cache static geometry and use bounded arc buffers.
  • Align four phase indicators and display actual recent throughput samples beneath the gauge when space allows.
  • Trace Statistics over its complete series, with stable full-data axes/counts; restart on metric/scope/path/reload.
  • Respect reduced motion, native/monochrome palettes, terminal resizing, exact numeric readings, and save-failure visibility. No fonts/profile changes, added dependencies, or machine-schema changes. Legacy --run composition is retained.

Actual animated renders

Synthetic engine events and saved fixtures, 120×38, explicitly selected Graphite palette. These are exact Ratatui cell captures, not mockups or WAN measurements. GIF capture cadence is 20 fps, not a performance claim.

Live gauge, upload transition and results reveal

Before After
Live before Live after

Home/Statistics animations, more before/after captures, and reproduction commands

Validation

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check — passed.
  • cargo clippy --locked --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings — passed.
  • cargo test --locked --all-features — 300 tests passed; the 69 cockpit tests also passed after the final phase-label adjustment.
  • cargo build --locked --bin speedtest — passed.
  • Cockpit PTY smoke suite — passed, including navigation during entrance effects, cessation of idle terminal output, explicit loopback measurements, cancellation, resizing and terminal restoration.
  • Eight-language localization smoke suite — passed.
  • Deterministic motion capture — passed; 240 frames plus matching before/after stills visually reviewed.
  • Independent code review completed. Corrected four-metric reveal geometry and selection targeting, then re-reviewed the integrated diff.

Inherited proxy variables were removed for local loopback fixtures. These checks do not establish WAN accuracy, terminal performance across all hosts, or Windows console restoration. GitHub CI remains the source of cross-platform check results.

Review follow-up

Fixed gallery underlines on space cells and regenerated the Home GIF in 26da4a6. Pixel assertions cover the affected cells, GIF durations/loops are preserved, and all other images remain byte-identical. Clarified reduced motion: moving accents freeze while static rings and the measured peak marker remain visible. Both review threads are resolved with evidence. Rust application sources are unchanged from the tested implementation commit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Cockpit screens now include animated gauge accents, page and results reveals, selection highlights, and progressively revealed statistics charts.
    • Live testing displays phase indicators and, when space allows, a trace of actual throughput samples.
    • Reduced motion settles effects immediately and removes animated accents.
  • Documentation
    • Updated cockpit usage guidance and added an animation gallery with before-and-after examples.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Cockpit navigation remains responsive during animations, and terminal output stops once effects settle.

Cross-platform verification

  • Branch CI and PR CI pass on Linux, Windows, Intel macOS, and Apple Silicon macOS at 26da4a6.
  • Release build matrix passes for all four targets. Release publication is skipped for pull requests.
  • CodeRabbit rereview passes; no unresolved review threads remain.
  • The first Intel PR attempt hit the unchanged 150 ms loopback fixture deadline in completed_phases_emit_their_loaded_latency_before_returning. The identical branch CI passed, and a single unchanged retry passed. No measurement behavior or test assertions were modified.

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Merged with a merge commit at beb652073fede240fedeeeb34f2012d0badbbaad, preserving author history. The authorized head was 26da4a61ad652cca11116caae1d84c6fa93b96a8. Guarded readiness and landing evidence confirms green checks and no unresolved review threads before each merge. Authorization: the user's explicit “merge and create a release” request. Main's resulting tree matches the tested v0.9.0 source. Release publication runs in workflow 38150989084.

Add time-based page, focus, modal, chart and result choreography with a separate monotonic UI clock. Enhance live measurements with orbital gauge accents, measured peak marker, spring trails, phase indicators and real sample trace.

Preserve exact readings, native palettes, offline navigation and cancellation. Respect reduced motion, settle idle effects and retain the legacy direct-run gauge. Include deterministic GIFs, before/after captures and motion/PTY regressions.
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The cockpit now synchronizes timed motion with its screen state and renders animation effects across cockpit views and the speedometer. The changes also add deterministic frame capture, image and GIF rendering, documentation, and a smoke test for navigation and settled output.

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Cockpit motion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Motion state and render scheduling
src/tui/cockpit/state.rs, src/tui/cockpit/motion.rs, src/tui/cockpit/mod.rs
Cockpit state tracks motion inputs and statistics revisions. The render loop synchronizes and advances motion, and requests frames while effects remain active. Motion timing handles scene changes, reduced motion, terminal size, and settled frames.
Animated cockpit views and gauge
src/tui/cockpit/view.rs, src/tui/speedometer.rs, src/tui/speedometer/gauge.rs, src/tui/cockpit/tests.rs
Cockpit views apply effects to branding, selections, live-test phases, results, charts, and modals. The speedometer adds optional time-driven accents through render_animated. Tests cover motion settling, rendering, and palette constraints.
Motion captures and gallery
src/tui/cockpit/motion_capture.rs, docs/images/motion/*, README.md, docs/network-cockpit.md, docs/usage.md, .github/scripts/cockpit_smoke.py
An opt-in test writes deterministic frame captures. A Python tool renders still images and GIFs. Documentation describes the motion effects and gallery, and the smoke test checks navigation during entrance motion and stable output after settling.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CockpitRun
  participant CockpitState
  participant Motion
  participant CockpitView
  CockpitRun->>CockpitState: sync_motion with elapsed time and terminal size
  CockpitState->>Motion: observe current scene and reduced-motion setting
  CockpitRun->>Motion: advance on render tick
  CockpitRun->>CockpitView: draw when dirty or motion needs a frame
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 26da4

The gallery now displays selection underlines across blank cells. The prior rendering gap is fixed, with no actionable merge risk remaining.

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Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 26da4

The change affects 3 systems.

Changed systems: docs, src, README.md

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  • observed — docs (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — src (service) was modified; 8 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — README.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in README.md: Added a description of cockpit animation effects, the Reduced motion setting’s immediate settling behavior, and a link to the animation gallery and before/after captures.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/images/motion/README.md: Added gallery documentation describing rendered Ratatui buffers, 50 ms GIF frame steps, synthetic engine events and values, baseline comparisons, capture and rendering commands, and renderer dependencies and limitations.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/network-cockpit.md: Added documentation of the cockpit’s scan, sweep, trace, and live-gauge effects; their timing limits, FPS cap, settled-frame behavior, and bounded rendering; reduced-motion, modal, and resize handling; and the unchanged direct --run gauge composition.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/network-cockpit.md: Added src/tui/cockpit/motion.rs to the ownership table, assigning it bounded presentation timelines and cell-safe emphasis effects.




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As sample traces start to flow.
The screens reveal, then settle still,
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A saved frame hops into view,
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Review comments at @docs/images/motion/render_motion.py:
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allow underlined spaces through so their underline is rendered without drawing a
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Render selection underlines on space cells in the exact-cell gallery renderer and regenerate the Home GIF. Clarify that reduced motion freezes decorative rings while preserving static instrumentation.

Validated with a pixel assertion and regenerated GIF durations. Application Rust sources are unchanged.

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