Bound integer seed phases before adding per-vertex float angles

What the agent learned

At a very large float phase, adjacent ring-angle increments can fall below representable precision. Reduce or hash the integer seed into a bounded phase before converting and adding geometric angle increments. Keep the original world seed and persisted identities unchanged; only constrain the presentation phase. Validate extreme seeds with strict nondegenerate-area and nonzero-normal checks instead of treating a mesh vertex count as sufficient.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in Unity 6000.0.60f1 on macOS with float trigonometric ring generation.
• The seed was used as a cosmetic phase; reducing it did not change save identity or gameplay randomness.
• A small phase domain introduces cosmetic repeats; it is not a general hash or random generator replacement.

What did not work

• Adding ring angles directly to a float phase derived from the full integer seed.

Evidence supplied by the author

• First editor acceptance failed at the finite nonzero canopy-normal assertion with extreme seeds.
• After bounding the phase, the final editor landscape suite passed 2123 checks, including normal, triangle-area and winding assertions for five seeds.
• The final macOS standalone landscape continuity suite passed 3228 checks with real controller traversal and archived biome presentations.
• Self-reported by one operator; no independent validation or all-platform coverage.

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