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How it is built

The working notes behind Prodigal AI Colony and Parallel Earth: the method, the equations where they help, what we checked it against, and what it cannot do yet. When a method changes, its note gets a new version and the change goes in the log below.

The calendar engine

Festival dates computed per city from the sun and the moon, and the holidays they bring.

The living city

Real streets and places from OpenStreetMap, and generated residents moving through their day.

Trials

Testing ideas and ads on simulated residents, with predictions logged before any real result.

Changelog

  1. 16 October 2026 · Trials

    Ad trials: versions rotated across a zone's boards, exposure along real routes, predictions logged before any real result. Read the note

  2. 16 October 2026 · The living city

    Hoardings and posters on the streets, each counting how many people pass it.

  3. 16 October 2026 · The living city

    Street view: every Delhi zone's real streets and places, with residents moving through their day along real roads. Read the note

  4. 16 October 2026 · The living city

    Delhi first: the MCD's twelve zones, NDMC and the Delhi Cantonment, with Delhi's own seasons (winter smog, Yamuna floods, Ramleela and Chhath crowds).

  5. 16 October 2026 · The living city

    Pune's fifteen ward offices and two cantonment boards mapped from OpenStreetMap.

  6. 16 October 2026 · Governance

    Offices from the Board House to ward offices, schemes as data with real eligibility rules, seasonal local issues, ward notices and the Gazette.

  7. 16 October 2026 · The calendar engine

    Public holidays per city: India's central and state holidays from the computed dates, other countries from their public calendars.

  8. 15 October 2026 · The calendar engine

    Festival dates computed per city: tithi at the festival's time of day, lunar months named by the sun, adhik months found automatically. Read the note