Augmentation orbits do not substitute for multiple photographs

Four random resized crops per Visual Genome image, segmented
independently with their fields averaged, leave the correlation at
0.6559. Closed-world re-renders resample layout, which is nuisance by
construction, so averaging removes modality-private variation; random
crops perturb framing that self-supervised patch features already
absorb, leaving nothing to cancel.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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@@ -549,10 +549,16 @@ statistics (0.19 for DINOv2 crop CLS against Qwen phrase states), so
 in-context features and corpus-specific distributional vectors are the
 better substrate.
 
-Verdict: 0.656 against the 0.9 recovery needs; no recovery run. The
-untried lever is observation orbits, which VG lacks by construction --
-one photograph per scene. Multi-view natural data is the next protocol
-requirement.
+Augmentation orbits were then tried and give nothing: four random resized
+crops per image, segmented independently with fields averaged, move the
+correlation from 0.6559 to 0.6559. Re-renders in the closed world
+resample layout, which is nuisance by construction; random crops perturb
+framing, which self-supervised patch features already absorb, so the
+average has nothing to cancel. Multi-view observation means separate
+photographs, not transformations of one.
+
+Verdict: 0.656 against the 0.9 recovery needs; no recovery run, and the
+orbit lever is unavailable on this corpus.
 
 See `NATURAL_RESULTS.md`.