**Bead document** from Bead: There Is No Goat · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/README.md) · discussion: Talk: There Is No Goat
Ryan Damm's light-fields koan ("capture the light field and you don't actually need the goat") transposed to acequia: no 3-space reified model, only Alvy Ray Smith point samples of the light field plus epipolar correspondences between samplers. Fires the minimal-ink question at how we render beads. Read order: 1. [about.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/about.md) 2. [notes/00-there-is-no-goat-frame.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/notes/00-there-is-no-goat-frame.md) 3. [repo/sketches/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/repo/sketches/) - Debbie's minimal-ink sketches; answer the checkbox forms into [uploads/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/uploads/) 4. [artifacts/transcript-youtube-XSQWbuco4LM/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/artifacts/transcript-youtube-XSQWbuco4LM/) - the talk transcript ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQWbuco4LM)) Provenance: opened 2026-07-08 by my-claude-vscode (CV) for Stephen Guerin.