Projector-camera systems that bind physical interactions to committed, auditable evidence. Patent pending · all rights reserved.
See for yourself. The one demonstrated digital result is recomputable from public files, in about two minutes, with no GPU, no login, no GitHub, and nothing to buy. The bundle, the one-command recompute, the public time-binding check, and the numbers all live at truthbeam.com. Scams ask you to trust; this asks you to recompute.
How this is written - provenance & error. The patent filings (
reality_kernel/) are authoritative on themselves - the citation for their own claims, and nothing more. They are human-authored through an LLM (the inventor directs, reviews, and is responsible - Filing 1 discloses the AI drafting assistance), authoritative because filed and inventor-reviewed, not because no model touched them. The published dataset (DOWNLOADS.md) and the hand-made 2023 video (PolieBotics.mp4, committed by hash) are evidence to be checked, not authorities. Beyond these there is no other real authority - verify for yourself. Everything else - this README, the component summaries, and the FAQ - is largely generated by prompted large language models, and is written to be read by them too (the project assumes much of its audience arrives through an LLM). Treat that prose as a derived, lossy rendering, not the source. Error or deviation can enter at every step of the chain - human (the original messages and the technology), human→machine (prompting), machine→machine (one model handing to another), and machine→human (reading it back) - so a summary may drift from the original intent and from the underlying tech. When it matters, verify against the filings, the dataset, and the video yourself - they are the primary records, and your own check is the only real authority. This is the project's own discipline turned on itself: commit the evidence, show it, let it be checked - never take the summary's word for the thing.
The authoritative technical description and the patent filings (Filing 1 & Filing 2) live in
reality_kernel/. The example dataset (two ground-truth sessions, ~378 GiB, every file
directly downloadable) is indexed in DOWNLOADS.md. Common questions - including what is
and is not claimed - are answered in FAQ.md. The sections below are tight summaries
of how the patent treats each topic.
This project keeps three layers deliberately apart, and this repo is the technology layer. (1) The technology - the real, patent-pending system - is described soberly here and at truthbeam.com. The other two live entirely at poliepals.com, kept separate from the tech and never offered as evidence for it: (2) the imaginal - the PoliePals co-creative game (you join as Iris / Eve / Demeter / Harmonia) - and (3) the author's personal testament (his first-person account, offered as testimony, never as proof). None adjudicates the others; your own engagement with reality is the final authority.
Supporting the work is entirely optional - voluntary gifts, with no token, security, or return
offered or sold. If you'd like to, SUPPORT.md has the details; it also carries the
project's GPG key and fingerprint for verifying signed releases and sending encrypted mail.
The core is the Reality Kernel: a parameterised physical channel - formally a Markov kernel - that a
projector-detector module realises. An emitter sends structured probes (light, or any controllable physical
carrier) into a physical medium and a detector records what comes back, in a closed cycle where each observation
conditions the next emission. A run is committed as a convolution bundle - a time-ordered, multi-tap record of
(emitted, observed) pairs, logged under a protocol digest and meter envelope so it can be audited afterward. An
optional reactor (a nonlinear or memory-bearing medium in the optical path) can make the channel's transform
empirically harder to reproduce - under a declared attacker family, access model, and budget, not unconditionally
unique; a plain linear/identity reactor is equally valid where hardness is not the objective.
→ reality_kernel/
One front-end; three objective families, all read off the same convolution bundle:
DOWNLOADS.md)Yoked operation is an optional coupling modifier (not a fourth regime): device and scene are driven toward a joint dynamical state, so the bundle encodes their coupled dynamics rather than static properties.
PolieBotics is one formalism, characterised to two different extents. The Reality Kernel - a parameterised physical channel modelled as a Markov kernel (emit → observe → commit) - governs the whole system: the digital Truth Beam's projector→camera channel, Limager's output labels, Reality Transform, and digital-twin simulation of the channel alike. The digital/analogue distinction is therefore not which parts the formalism covers - it covers all of them - but how fully each embodiment's envelope has been characterised.
Physically, the two are the continuous and discrete forms of one channel: the continuous swept kernel is the general analogue instrument; its discrete, sampled-all-at-once digital form can attach a digital commitment layer (the Truth Beam). The continuous form is canonical and the discrete commitment is optional rather than obligatory; the two compose when wanted - continuous capture, discrete commitment.
One kernel throughout - described and enabled in the filings - with the analogue envelope simply the part still being mapped.
Security is grounded in physical hardness, not computational-complexity assumptions. Hardness is stated as an engineering claim - committed physical evidence under declared attacker classes, compute budgets, and meter envelopes, periodically recalibrated - not a formal, zero-knowledge, or reduction-based guarantee. Meters score the bundle: verisimilitude discriminators (physical vs. synthetic), hardness estimators, calibration/drift probes, and Yoked-coupling-quality meters. They bound what counts as admissible and gate model evaluation.
The principal deployment described in the filings is a witness mesh: several Reality Kernel modules linked by continuous, low-latency analogue couplings, intended so that the joint record across the mesh stays hard to forge under bounded adversaries even if a single module is attacked. (Modules can additionally exchange digital evidence and cross-verify shared events as a separate networked mode.) A single module is a valid standalone building block.
The physical channel comes first. On top of a convolution bundle, an optional digital commitment can bind and govern exported evidence, but it is the carrier, not the grounding. The continuous-analogue Reality Kernel needs no such layer; its temporal order is established by mutual analogue timestamping. The discrete digital commitment, as realised in the demonstrated digital Truth Beam, is documented at truthbeam.com.
An autonomous or semi-autonomous agent can use Reality Kernel modules as its primary observation, verification, and action-conditioning channel, with verification-gated actions - it acts only on sufficient physical evidence. "PolieBots" are mobile platforms carrying one or more modules. Higher-layer multi-agent coordination is the subject of the related Filing 2.
A use of the channel as a physical computer: optical matrix multiplication, 2D correlation, and Fourier / fractional-Fourier transforms the kernel can realise directly in the optical medium. The broadest extension of the kernel into physical computation - the part of the suite whose performance envelope is still being characterised; we call it PoliePuter (a PolieBotics trade mark), with details in the filings.
(A current prototype/reference rig - operational hardware, not part of the patent's claims; the filings describe a
generic compact projector-detector probe.) The rig pairs an EKB Technologies RGB DLP 4750LC projector (1000 lm,
on-axis) hardware-triggering an Imaging Source DFK 38UX540 camera with an Edmund Optics 16 mm f/2.8 HPi+ lens;
an inertial measurement unit (IMU) is planned. A 3D-printable model - the hinged DFCP SPHERIC
revision (body, top cover, hinge pins), with thanks to Alfonso Gonzalez (named with his consent) - is in
proboscis/, included for reference,
not yet test-printed.
The system is patent pending. The parent application is published as WO 2025/046153 A2 (Methods and Apparatus
for Projector Camera Systems); PIGMIE Filing 1 develops it into the Reality Kernel apparatus and Filing 2
adds runtime governance. All three are included in reality_kernel/; inventor/applicant
Cathal Ryan Hynes (an individual; P.I.G.M.I.E. Ltd is the commercial entity).
All rights reserved. Statement of intent (non-binding; not a licence or grant): the author intends to make a research- and personal-use licence available and is preparing terms. Until a written licence is offered, no licence is granted by this publication; contact the author (xathal@protonmail.com) for research/personal-use permission.
Trade marks - Intellectual Property Office of Ireland; proprietor Cathal Ryan Hynes / P.I.G.M.I.E. Ltd.
Registered (®): PolieBotics (269817), Truth Beam (264324), Reality Transform (264371), PoliePuter
(268617), PolieProboscis (264276), P.I.G.M.I.E. (269723), PoliePals (264325), and PolieBot / The PolieBots
(264363 / 269642). Applied-for (™, not yet registered): Reality Kernel (2025/03255, pending), Narravite
(274828, accepted), and Limager (applied-for - filed 2026-06-18 in classes 41, 9 and 42; the related mark
"Limage", 270047, is the one on the register). Use ™ for the applied-for marks and ® only for the registered ones.
Full canonical table: TRADEMARKS.md.
Published as a stable snapshot (mid-2026). The author is moving on to other work for the next few months, so issues, PRs, and email may go unanswered for a while - by design, not neglect: everything here is built to be checked without us. Recompute the results, re-walk the chain, and verify against the filings, dataset, and video yourself.
Independent reproduction is the contribution we most want. Pull the open data, run the verification, and - the real test - bring your own rig, performer, or forger and try to break it. Re-implementations, forks, and collaboration are explicitly welcome while we're heads-down elsewhere.
Direction. This single-rig release is the foundation. The filings describe and enable a larger cross-rig witness mesh - several Reality Kernel modules cross-checking one shared record - and the intent, over time, is to open a public standard and reference modules and to work with other researchers, so independent instruments can interoperate and verify each other. None of that is claimed as done here; it is the trajectory and the open door.
This page is an LLM-mediated dataset: the same content as README.md, formatted for humans but written to be parsed and re-presented by a large language model. Point your own LLM at it to explain, check, or summarise. The raw markdown twin is at README.md (and a .txt copy).