TRACE — project page

A static, GitHub-hostable academic project page for TRACE: Interactive Bi-Directional Cable Tracing Amid Clutter (Newsreader + DM Sans, OKLch tokens, centered single column). The visual system is documented in the repo-root PRODUCT.md / DESIGN.md ("The Lab Notebook").

The page opens with an auto-looping hero (the real robot run playing on load) and a one-line result hook, then flows problem → method → results. Motion is entrance-only: a single orchestrated hero reveal on load, then static.

No build step or framework — just index.html, styles.css, script.js, and media/. One CDN dependency, Motion One, is loaded as an ES module purely to choreograph the hero reveal; it is progressive enhancement (if it fails to load, a head-script safety timeout reveals the hero anyway, and every widget keeps working).

Interactive elements

Each of the paper's headline contributions is demonstrated with a small vanilla-JS widget:

Section	Interaction	Real assets used
Hero	The 8-iteration robot run auto-loops on load (pauses off-screen and under reduced-motion → resolved still)	media/run/iter_0–7
Result hook	Static one-line headline result with inline serif numerals	numbers from the paper
The Problem	Toggle raw monochrome scene ↔ recovered traces	endpoints_detected, final_traces
Core Idea	3-step reveal of bi-directional traces → divergence points	divergence.png
The Moves	Density toggle picks Divergence Push vs Cluster Dilation; hover to play the motion	div_push, cluster_dilation
Watch It Work	Play / scrub the same robot run with logged action captions	media/run/iter_0–7 + metrics.txt
Results	Toggle with/without clutter; animated TRACE-vs-HANDLOOM bars + comparison table	numbers from figures/plot_results.py
Geometry vs. VLMs	Side-by-side monochrome input vs VLM hallucination + score badges	vlm_compare

Preview locally

cd docs
python3 -m http.server 8000
# open http://localhost:8000

Publish to GitHub Pages

1. git init the repo (it is not currently a git repo) and push to GitHub.
2. Repo Settings → Pages → Source: Deploy from a branch → main / /docs.

Still placeholder (fill in later)

• Author names + links (index.html header) — the PDF is anonymized; only the AUTOLab/BAIR affiliation is recoverable.
• Action links — Paper PDF and Code hrefs are #. Project Page points at https://trace-paper.github.io/.
• BibTeX authors/venue details.

All result numbers, captions, and media are real (sourced from the paper and the repo's figures/, video/, and video/real_video/ assets).