diff --git a/demo/golden/harness.mjs b/demo/golden/harness.mjs
index 572efdf0..7cd36ebf 100644
--- a/demo/golden/harness.mjs
+++ b/demo/golden/harness.mjs
@@ -1400,8 +1400,7 @@ export async function prepareGoldenScenario(page, scenario) {
       const exactViewBox = `${view.x} ${view.y} ${view.w} ${view.h}`;
       const scenes = [...root.querySelectorAll('[data-hp-live-viewbox]')];
       const layers = [...root.querySelectorAll('[data-hp-live-layer="camera"]')];
-      const gradient = root.querySelector('linearGradient#hp-wall-hatch');
-      const stops = [...(gradient?.querySelectorAll('stop') || [])];
+      const pattern = root.querySelector('defs > pattern#hp-wall-hatch');
       const visibleKinds = new Set([...root.querySelectorAll('.opening[data-kind]')]
         .map((node) => node.getAttribute('data-kind')));
       const modelKinds = new Set((card._openingsR || []).map((opening) => opening.type));
@@ -1410,15 +1409,11 @@ export async function prepareGoldenScenario(page, scenario) {
         && scenes.every((node) => !getComputedStyle(node).willChange
           || getComputedStyle(node).willChange === 'auto')
         && layers.every((node) => ['', 'none'].includes(getComputedStyle(node).transform));
-      const analytic = !!gradient
-        && gradient.getAttribute('gradientUnits') === 'userSpaceOnUse'
-        && gradient.getAttribute('spreadMethod') === 'repeat'
-        && stops.length === 4
-        && stops[1].getAttribute('stop-opacity') === '0'
-        && stops[2].getAttribute('stop-opacity') === '0';
+      // #689: the historical pattern at every scale (#685's gradient reverted).
+      const hatch = !!pattern && !root.querySelector('linearGradient#hp-wall-hatch');
       const openings = ['door', 'window', 'gate'].every((kind) => visibleKinds.has(kind))
         && modelKinds.has('passage');
-      if (!settled || !analytic || !openings
+      if (!settled || !hatch || !openings
           || Math.abs(card._zoom - scenario.zoom) > 1e-9) {
         throw new Error(`static hatch sharpness contract failed: ${scenario.id}`);
       }
diff --git a/demo/smoke_daycycle_layer_budget.mjs b/demo/smoke_daycycle_layer_budget.mjs
index fb23867e..f304a682 100644
--- a/demo/smoke_daycycle_layer_budget.mjs
+++ b/demo/smoke_daycycle_layer_budget.mjs
@@ -289,7 +289,10 @@ checks.terminalFrameKeepsBudget = settled.layers.every(
 checks.settledPlanLayerIsExplicitAndBounded = !!settledPlanLayer
   && settledPlanLayer.width <= active.stage.width * 1.5 + 64
   && settledPlanLayer.height <= active.stage.height * 1.5 + 64
-  && settledPlanLayer.reasons.some((reason) => reason.includes('will-change: transform'))
+  // #689: explicit, but through the opacity hint — the transform hint
+  // freezes the raster scale and the plan stays blurry after a zoom.
+  && settledPlanLayer.reasons.some((reason) => reason.includes('will-change: opacity'))
+  && settledPlanLayer.reasons.every((reason) => !reason.includes('will-change: transform'))
   && settledPlanLayer.reasons.every((reason) => !reason.includes('Overlaps other composited content'));
 checks.capturedPresentedPinchFrames = frameMetrics.length >= 3;
 checks.presentedFramesHaveNoWhiteTile = frameMetrics.every(
diff --git a/demo/smoke_daycycle_raster.mjs b/demo/smoke_daycycle_raster.mjs
index 9a70332c..7f7b4f97 100644
--- a/demo/smoke_daycycle_raster.mjs
+++ b/demo/smoke_daycycle_raster.mjs
@@ -166,7 +166,9 @@ out.dayCycleOutlineFiltered = /drop-shadow/.test(safeDayStyle?.filter || '');
 out.dayCycleOutlinePromoted = /filter/.test(safeDayStyle?.willChange || '');
 out.dayCyclePaperStaysUnfiltered = (safeDayStyle?.paperFilter || 'none') === 'none'
   && !/filter/.test(safeDayStyle?.paperWillChange || '');
-out.safePlanLayerIsExplicit = /transform/.test(safeDayStyle?.planWillChange || '');
+// #689: the explicit scene layer is an opacity hint; a transform hint would
+// freeze its raster scale after a zoom.
+out.safePlanLayerIsExplicit = (safeDayStyle?.planWillChange || '') === 'opacity';
 
 out.rasterTasksObserved = [...staticSamples, ...dayCycleSamples].every((sample) => sample.tasks > 0);
 const staticMedianMs = median(staticSamples.map((sample) => sample.ms));
diff --git a/demo/smoke_daycycle_zoom_layers.mjs b/demo/smoke_daycycle_zoom_layers.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..93a045d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demo/smoke_daycycle_zoom_layers.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,236 @@
+// #689: with the day/night background the plan layers must stay stage-sized at
+// any zoom, and the scene must not keep a will-change: transform hint (its explicit layer is
+// an opacity hint). Before
+// the fix, CDP LayerTree measured (~460 %, DPR 2) plan-svg at 15.9× and the
+// filtered outline at 13.2× the stage during a gesture, the outline at 12.8×
+// at rest; at 800 % that is hundreds of MB of GPU memory and navigation
+// flashed white. The same will-change: transform hint froze the raster scale:
+// zooming from 100 % showed the 100 % raster stretched. Headless Chromium can
+// see neither the blur nor the flashes (owner-verified in real Chrome), so this
+// witness measures the state that causes them: layer sizes and the hint.
+import { launch, checkAll, finish } from './serve.mjs';
+import { installHpTestOnPage } from './helpers/hp-test.mjs';
+
+const { page, browser } = await launch({ width: 820, height: 760 }, 2);
+const cdp = await page.context().newCDPSession(page);
+let latestLayers = [];
+cdp.on('LayerTree.layerTreeDidChange', ({ layers }) => { latestLayers = layers; });
+await cdp.send('LayerTree.enable');
+const frames = [];
+cdp.on('Page.screencastFrame', (event) => {
+  if (frames.length < 120) frames.push(event.data);
+  void cdp.send('Page.screencastFrameAck', { sessionId: event.sessionId });
+});
+
+const settle = async () => {
+  await page.waitForTimeout(1200);
+  await page.evaluate(async () => {
+    await window.__card.updateComplete;
+    await new Promise((done) => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(done)));
+  });
+};
+
+const dayNight = async () => {
+  // A dark custom room fill keeps the near-white frame sample meaningful at
+  // 800 %, where the demo's own light paper would otherwise fill the stage.
+  await page.evaluate(() => window.__hpTest.setServerConfig((cfg) => ({
+    ...cfg,
+    settings: { ...(cfg.settings || {}), bg_mode: 'daynight', glow_enabled: false },
+    spaces: cfg.spaces.map((space) => ({
+      ...space, settings: { ...(space.settings || {}), fill_mode: 'custom', custom_fill: '#435468' },
+    })),
+  })));
+  await page.evaluate(async () => {
+    const card = window.__card;
+    card.hass = { ...card.hass, states: { ...card.hass.states, 'sun.sun': {
+      entity_id: 'sun.sun', state: 'above_horizon',
+      attributes: { azimuth: 180, elevation: 40, rising: false },
+    } } };
+    await card.updateComplete;
+  });
+  await settle();
+};
+
+const stageBox = () => page.evaluate(() => {
+  const rect = window.__card.renderRoot.querySelector('.stage').getBoundingClientRect();
+  return { x: rect.x, y: rect.y, width: rect.width, height: rect.height };
+});
+
+const snapshot = async () => {
+  await page.waitForTimeout(80);
+  const state = await page.evaluate(() => {
+    const root = window.__card.renderRoot;
+    const stage = root.querySelector('.stage');
+    const plan = root.querySelector('.plan-svg');
+    const outline = root.querySelector('.hp-paper-outline-svg');
+    return {
+      zoom: window.__card._zoom,
+      daycycle: stage.classList.contains('daycycle'),
+      safe: stage.classList.contains('hp-safe-daycycle-outline'),
+      planWillChange: getComputedStyle(plan).willChange,
+      planTransform: getComputedStyle(plan).transform,
+      outlineOverflow: outline ? getComputedStyle(outline).overflow : null,
+      outlineInline: outline ? `${outline.style.overflow}|${outline.style.clipPath}` : null,
+      sceneClips: [...root.querySelectorAll('[data-hp-live-viewbox]')].map((node) => node.style.clipPath || ''),
+    };
+  });
+  const layers = [];
+  for (const layer of latestLayers.filter((item) => item.drawsContent)) {
+    let name = '';
+    if (layer.backendNodeId) {
+      try {
+        const { node } = await cdp.send('DOM.describeNode', { backendNodeId: layer.backendNodeId });
+        const attrs = node.attributes || [];
+        const index = attrs.indexOf('class');
+        name = index >= 0 ? attrs[index + 1] : node.nodeName;
+      } catch { /* detached between the event and inspection */ }
+    }
+    let reasons = [];
+    try {
+      ({ compositingReasons: reasons } = await cdp.send('LayerTree.compositingReasons', {
+        layerId: layer.layerId,
+      }));
+    } catch { /* retired layers may have no reason record */ }
+    layers.push({ name, width: layer.width, height: layer.height, reasons });
+  }
+  return { state, layers };
+};
+
+// Everything the card paints; the page root and the sticky header are not plan.
+const planLayers = (snap) => snap.layers.filter((layer) => layer.name
+  && layer.name !== '#document' && !/\bhdr\b/.test(layer.name));
+const within = (snap, stage, factor) => planLayers(snap).every((layer) =>
+  layer.width <= stage.width * factor + 240 && layer.height <= stage.height * factor + 240);
+const largest = (snap) => planLayers(snap).reduce((max, layer) =>
+  Math.max(max, layer.width * layer.height), 0);
+
+const wheelAt = async (stage, deltaY, count) => {
+  // Near a corner: the hover tooltip stays out of the central frame sample.
+  await page.mouse.move(stage.x + 40, stage.y + 40);
+  for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+    await page.mouse.wheel(0, deltaY);
+    await page.waitForTimeout(24);
+  }
+};
+
+await dayNight();
+const stage = await stageBox();
+await cdp.send('Page.startScreencast', { format: 'png', everyNthFrame: 2, maxWidth: 820, maxHeight: 760 });
+
+// A: page loaded at 100 %, zoomed to 800 % with the wheel (owner's blur path).
+await wheelAt(stage, -240, 30);
+const zoomingIn = await snapshot();
+await settle();
+const zoomedIn = await snapshot();
+
+// The buttons and a pinch settle into the same hint-free scene (AC1).
+const clickZoom = (hook) => page.evaluate((hook) =>
+  window.__card.renderRoot.querySelector(`[data-hp="${hook}"]`).click(), hook);
+await clickZoom('zoom-out'); await settle();
+await clickZoom('zoom-in'); await settle();
+const buttons = await snapshot();
+await page.evaluate(() => {
+  const stage = window.__card.renderRoot.querySelector('.stage');
+  const rect = stage.getBoundingClientRect();
+  stage.setPointerCapture = () => {};
+  stage.releasePointerCapture = () => {};
+  const emit = (type, id, x) => stage.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent(type, {
+    bubbles: true, composed: true, cancelable: true, pointerId: id, pointerType: 'touch',
+    isPrimary: id === 6891, button: type === 'pointerdown' ? 0 : -1,
+    buttons: type === 'pointerup' ? 0 : 1, clientX: x, clientY: rect.top + rect.height / 2,
+  }));
+  const cx = rect.left + rect.width / 2;
+  emit('pointerdown', 6891, cx - 120); emit('pointerdown', 6892, cx + 120);
+  emit('pointermove', 6891, cx - 90); emit('pointermove', 6892, cx + 90);
+  emit('pointerup', 6891, cx - 90); emit('pointerup', 6892, cx + 90);
+});
+await settle();
+const pinched = await snapshot();
+await wheelAt(stage, -240, 12);
+await settle();
+
+// B: reload at 800 % (the camera is restored), day/night again, then navigate
+// (owner's white-flash path).
+await page.reload({ waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+await page.waitForFunction(() => window.__card?._model?.length > 0, { timeout: 9000 });
+await installHpTestOnPage(page);
+await dayNight();
+const reloaded = await snapshot();
+await wheelAt(stage, 240, 3);
+const navigating = await snapshot();
+await wheelAt(stage, -240, 6);
+await settle();
+const navigated = await snapshot();
+await cdp.send('Page.stopScreencast');
+
+const nearWhite = await page.evaluate(async ({ encoded, stage }) => {
+  const out = [];
+  for (const data of encoded) {
+    const image = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      const img = new Image();
+      img.onload = () => resolve(img);
+      img.onerror = reject;
+      img.src = `data:image/png;base64,${data}`;
+    });
+    const sx = image.width / innerWidth, sy = image.height / innerHeight;
+    const w = Math.max(1, Math.floor(stage.width * sx)), h = Math.max(1, Math.floor(stage.height * sy));
+    const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
+    canvas.width = w; canvas.height = h;
+    const context = canvas.getContext('2d', { willReadFrequently: true });
+    context.drawImage(image, Math.floor(stage.x * sx), Math.floor(stage.y * sy), w, h, 0, 0, w, h);
+    const px = context.getImageData(0, 0, w, h).data;
+    let sampled = 0, white = 0;
+    for (let y = Math.floor(h * 0.25); y < h * 0.75; y += 3) {
+      for (let x = Math.floor(w * 0.25); x < w * 0.75; x += 3) {
+        const o = (y * w + x) * 4;
+        sampled++;
+        if (px[o] >= 250 && px[o + 1] >= 250 && px[o + 2] >= 250) white++;
+      }
+    }
+    out.push(white / Math.max(1, sampled));
+  }
+  return out;
+}, { encoded: frames, stage });
+
+const planReasons = (snap) => planLayers(snap).find((layer) => /\bplan-svg\b/.test(layer.name))?.reasons || [];
+const out = {
+  dayNightSafeAt800: zoomedIn.state.daycycle && zoomedIn.state.safe && zoomedIn.state.zoom === 8,
+  reloadRestores800Untouched: reloaded.state.daycycle && !reloaded.state.safe && reloaded.state.zoom === 8,
+  // K1: no frozen raster — the explicit layer is a trivial 3D transform.
+  settledSceneHasNoWillChangeHint: [zoomedIn, buttons, pinched, navigated]
+    .every((snap) => snap.state.planWillChange === 'opacity'),
+  buttonAndPinchChangedTheCamera: buttons.state.safe && pinched.state.zoom < 8,
+  // The scene stays an explicit layer (#582), but no reason is the hint that
+  // freezes the raster scale, and it is never an implicit overlap layer.
+  settledSceneLayerIsExplicitWithoutHint: planReasons(zoomedIn).some((reason) => /will-change: opacity/.test(reason))
+    && planReasons(zoomedIn).every((reason) => !/will-change: transform/.test(reason)
+      && !/Overlaps other composited content/.test(reason)),
+  // K3: layers stay stage-sized at 800 %.
+  gestureLayersWithinBudget: within(zoomingIn, stage, 1.5) && within(navigating, stage, 1.5),
+  settledLayersWithinBudget: [zoomedIn, buttons, pinched, reloaded, navigated]
+    .every((snap) => within(snap, stage, 1)),
+  outlineClippedToItsBox: zoomedIn.state.outlineOverflow === 'hidden'
+    && navigating.state.outlineInline === '|' && navigated.state.outlineInline === '|',
+  idleScenesKeepNoClip: [zoomedIn, buttons, pinched, reloaded, navigated].every((snap) => snap.state.sceneClips.every((clip) => clip === '')),
+  capturedFrames: nearWhite.length >= 3,
+  // A white/transparent frame covers the stage; white glyphs of 800 % device
+  // markers stay a few per cent of the central sample.
+  noWhiteFrames: nearWhite.every((ratio) => ratio < 0.25),
+};
+
+console.log(JSON.stringify({
+  stage,
+  largest: {
+    zoomingIn: largest(zoomingIn), zoomedIn: largest(zoomedIn), reloaded: largest(reloaded),
+    navigating: largest(navigating), navigated: largest(navigated),
+  },
+  layers: { zoomingIn: planLayers(zoomingIn), zoomedIn: planLayers(zoomedIn), navigating: planLayers(navigating) },
+  states: {
+    zoomingIn: zoomingIn.state, zoomedIn: zoomedIn.state, buttons: buttons.state,
+    pinched: pinched.state, reloaded: reloaded.state, navigated: navigated.state,
+  },
+  whiteMax: Math.max(0, ...nearWhite),
+}, null, 1));
+checkAll(out);
+await cdp.send('LayerTree.disable');
+await finish(browser, out);
diff --git a/demo/smoke_static_zoom_sharpness.mjs b/demo/smoke_static_zoom_sharpness.mjs
index d7087477..ad064293 100644
--- a/demo/smoke_static_zoom_sharpness.mjs
+++ b/demo/smoke_static_zoom_sharpness.mjs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-// Issue #685: a settled zoom must be a fresh vector frame, and the hatch must
-// not be a bitmap pattern which a WebView can keep resampling after the live
-// compositor transform is gone. This production-bundle witness owns both the
-// analytic SVG paint server and its live-viewport wiring.
+// Issue #685: a settled zoom must be a fresh vector frame after every route
+// (button, wheel, pinch, every mode). #689 reverted #685's analytic gradient —
+// the blur came from a frozen compositor raster, not from the hatch — so the
+// wall hatch is again the one historical <pattern> at every scale.
 import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
 import { launch, checkAll, finish } from './serve.mjs';
 import { prepareGoldenScenario } from './golden/harness.mjs';
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ const state = () => page.evaluate(() => {
   const exact = `${view.x} ${view.y} ${view.w} ${view.h}`;
   const scenes = [...root.querySelectorAll('[data-hp-live-viewbox]')];
   const layers = [...root.querySelectorAll('[data-hp-live-layer="camera"]')];
-  const gradient = root.querySelector('linearGradient#hp-wall-hatch');
-  const stops = [...(gradient?.querySelectorAll('stop') || [])];
+  const pattern = root.querySelector('defs > pattern#hp-wall-hatch');
   const kinds = new Set([...root.querySelectorAll('.opening[data-kind]')]
     .map((node) => node.getAttribute('data-kind')));
   const modelKinds = new Set((card._openingsR || []).map((opening) => opening.type));
@@ -55,12 +54,8 @@ const state = () => page.evaluate(() => {
     noSceneWillChange: scenes.every((node) => !getComputedStyle(node).willChange
       || getComputedStyle(node).willChange === 'auto'),
     noLayerTransform: layers.every((node) => ['', 'none'].includes(getComputedStyle(node).transform)),
-    analyticHatch: !!gradient
-      && gradient.getAttribute('gradientUnits') === 'userSpaceOnUse'
-      && gradient.getAttribute('spreadMethod') === 'repeat'
-      && stops.length === 4
-      && stops[1].getAttribute('stop-opacity') === '0'
-      && stops[2].getAttribute('stop-opacity') === '0',
+    patternHatch: !!pattern && pattern.getAttribute('patternUnits') === 'userSpaceOnUse'
+      && !root.querySelector('linearGradient#hp-wall-hatch'),
     openingKinds: ['door', 'window', 'gate'].every((kind) => kinds.has(kind))
       && modelKinds.has('passage'),
   };
@@ -138,7 +133,7 @@ for (const mode of ['view', 'plan', 'devices', 'decor']) {
 }
 
 const terminal = (sample) => sample.exactViewBox && sample.noSceneTransform
-  && sample.noSceneWillChange && sample.noLayerTransform && sample.analyticHatch
+  && sample.noSceneWillChange && sample.noLayerTransform && sample.patternHatch
   && sample.openingKinds;
 const out = {
   buttonSettlesAt140: Math.abs(button.zoom - 1.4) < 1e-9 && terminal(button),
@@ -147,7 +142,7 @@ const out = {
   sameScaleIsDeterministic: buttonHash === reverseHash,
   wheelSettlesAt115: Math.abs(wheel.zoom - 1.15) < 1e-9 && terminal(wheel),
   pinchSettlesAt132: Math.abs(pinch.zoom - 1.32) < 1e-9 && terminal(pinch),
-  allModesUseSettledAnalyticHatch: modes.length === 4 && modes.every(terminal),
+  allModesUseSettledPatternHatch: modes.length === 4 && modes.every(terminal),
 };
 
 checkAll(out);
diff --git a/demo/smoke_wall_hatch_density.mjs b/demo/smoke_wall_hatch_density.mjs
index 670cbba3..009d8004 100644
--- a/demo/smoke_wall_hatch_density.mjs
+++ b/demo/smoke_wall_hatch_density.mjs
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 // Issue #230: the hatch step is a physical distance, not a coordinate one.
 //
 // The units own the arithmetic; this smoke owns the wiring — that both renderers
-// actually put the computed step into the paint server, that neither of them
-// scales it back by zoom, and that the two agree geometrically.  The full card
-// uses #685's analytic repeating gradient while the non-interactive card keeps
-// the historical stroked pattern, so the comparison deliberately normalises
-// both representations to the same physical contract.
+// actually put the computed step into the pattern, that neither of them scales
+// it back by zoom, and that the two agree with each other.
 import { launch, checkAll, finish } from './serve.mjs';
 const { page, browser } = await launch({ width: 1000, height: 900 }, 1);
 const res = await page.evaluate(async () => {
@@ -16,34 +13,14 @@ const res = await page.evaluate(async () => {
     await c.updateComplete;
   };
   const space = () => c._serverCfg.spaces.find((s) => s.id === c._space);
-  const paint = (root) => root.querySelector('#hp-wall-hatch');
-  const read = (server) => {
-    if (!server) return null;
-    if (server.localName === 'linearGradient') {
-      const x1 = Number(server.getAttribute('x1'));
-      const y1 = Number(server.getAttribute('y1'));
-      const x2 = Number(server.getAttribute('x2'));
-      const y2 = Number(server.getAttribute('y2'));
-      const stops = [...server.querySelectorAll('stop')];
-      const edge = Number(stops[1]?.getAttribute('offset'));
-      const step = Math.hypot(x2 - x1, y2 - y1);
-      const rotation = Number((server.getAttribute('gradientTransform') || '')
-        .match(/rotate\(([-+0-9.eE]+)/)?.[1] || 0);
-      return {
-        step,
-        stripe: 2 * edge * step,
-        angle: Math.atan2(y2 - y1, x2 - x1) * 180 / Math.PI + rotation,
-        origin: `${x1},${y1}`,
-      };
-    }
-    const width = Number(server.getAttribute('width'));
-    return {
-      step: width,
-      stripe: Number(server.querySelector('path')?.getAttribute('stroke-width')),
-      angle: Number((server.getAttribute('patternTransform') || '').match(/rotate\(([-+0-9.eE]+)/)?.[1]),
-      origin: '0,0',
-    };
-  };
+  const pattern = (root) => root.querySelector('#hp-wall-hatch');
+  const read = (p) => p && ({
+    width: Number(p.getAttribute('width')),
+    height: Number(p.getAttribute('height')),
+    transform: p.getAttribute('patternTransform') || '',
+    stroke: Number(p.querySelector('path')?.getAttribute('stroke-width')),
+    d: p.querySelector('path')?.getAttribute('d') || '',
+  });
 
   c._mode = 'plan'; c.requestUpdate(); await settle();
   await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 400));
@@ -64,16 +41,16 @@ const res = await page.evaluate(async () => {
   out.wallBodyIsRendered = !!c.shadowRoot.querySelector('.wallbody');
 
   // Reference scale: exactly the historical numbers, so old plans do not move.
-  const atFive = read(paint(c.shadowRoot));
-  out.referenceStepIsEight = Math.abs((atFive?.step ?? 0) - 8) < 1e-9;
-  out.referenceStrokeIsTwo = Math.abs((atFive?.stripe ?? 0) - 2) < 1e-9;
-  out.referenceAngleIsFortyFive = Math.abs((atFive?.angle ?? 0) - 45) < 1e-9;
+  const atFive = read(pattern(c.shadowRoot));
+  out.referenceStepIsEight = atFive?.width === 8 && atFive?.height === 8;
+  out.referenceStrokeIsTwo = atFive?.stroke === 2;
+  out.noZoomScaleAtReference = !!atFive && !/scale/.test(atFive.transform);
 
   // Zoom must not touch the pattern any more — that is the whole point.
-  c._applyView(3); c.requestUpdate(); await settle();
-  const zoomed = read(paint(c.shadowRoot));
+  c._applyView(3); await settle();
+  const zoomed = read(pattern(c.shadowRoot));
   out.zoomDoesNotChangeThePattern = JSON.stringify(zoomed) === JSON.stringify(atFive);
-  c._applyView(1); c.requestUpdate(); await settle();
+  c._applyView(1); await settle();
 
   // A coarse grid: the step follows the centimetres, so it shrinks in units.
   space().cell_cm = 25;
@@ -82,10 +59,10 @@ const res = await page.evaluate(async () => {
   c._saveConfig();
   await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 500));
   c.requestUpdate(); await settle();
-  const atTwentyFive = read(paint(c.shadowRoot));
-  out.coarseGridShrinksTheStep = Math.abs(atTwentyFive.step - 1.6) < 1e-9;
-  out.coarseGridScalesTheStroke = Math.abs(atTwentyFive.stripe - 0.4) < 1e-9;
-  out.coarseGridKeepsTheAngle = Math.abs(atTwentyFive.angle - 45) < 1e-9;
+  const atTwentyFive = read(pattern(c.shadowRoot));
+  out.coarseGridShrinksTheStep = Math.abs(atTwentyFive.width - 1.6) < 1e-9;
+  out.coarseGridScalesTheStroke = Math.abs(atTwentyFive.stroke - 0.4) < 1e-9;
+  out.coarseGridStripeSpansTheCell = atTwentyFive.d === `M0 0 L0 ${atTwentyFive.width}`;
 
   // The static renderer is the second path that draws a wall body, and it used
   // to carry its own hard-coded 8 (spec §8.2, AC12).
@@ -101,14 +78,10 @@ const res = await page.evaluate(async () => {
     await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 80));
   }
   await card.updateComplete;
-  const staticPattern = read(paint(card.renderRoot));
+  const staticPattern = read(pattern(card.renderRoot));
   out.staticRendererFollowsTheCell = !!staticPattern
-    && Math.abs(staticPattern.step - 1.6) < 1e-9;
-  out.bothRenderersAgree = !!staticPattern
-    && Math.abs(staticPattern.step - atTwentyFive.step) < 1e-9
-    && Math.abs(staticPattern.stripe - atTwentyFive.stripe) < 1e-9
-    && Math.abs(staticPattern.angle - atTwentyFive.angle) < 1e-9
-    && staticPattern.origin === atTwentyFive.origin;
+    && Math.abs(staticPattern.width - 1.6) < 1e-9;
+  out.bothRenderersAgree = JSON.stringify(staticPattern) === JSON.stringify(atTwentyFive);
 
   return out;
 });
diff --git a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
index ae723349..6e45f616 100644
--- a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -595,20 +595,18 @@ the last settled Lit frame; both land on the current view, keeping #451's
 one-CSS-pixel marker contract on every frame. `.stage` stays the outer clip, but
 a transformed scene SVG gets inline `overflow: visible` so rasterised content
 covers the incoming edge, even with the pointer held still (#544); HTML layers
-never do. From the first live paint to the terminal commit a scene SVG stays in
+never do. The exposure is bounded by an inline `clip-path: inset(-25%)`
+(`LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP`) set and removed with it — beyond the 15 % refresh
+threshold, but never the whole plan: unbounded, a promoted scene grew with
+zoom² and at 800 % × DPR 2 exhausted GPU memory (white frames, #689). A scene
+marked `data-hp-live-overflow="clip"` — the filtered day-cycle outline — is
+projected but never exposed. From the first live paint to the terminal commit a scene SVG stays in
 one compositor lifecycle: a refresh or Lit frame may replace its anchor but never
 demote/re-promote it — HA Companion WebView shows that as a blank frame (#579).
 The day-cycle paper outline joins these roots before the first camera move; the
 static card uses its stage-sized form from the first frame (#582, Key decision 7).
 Unchanged values are never rewritten, so idle frames stay byte-identical;
 `commitHouseplanViewport` removes the transforms and forces the final `viewBox`.
-After the camera leaves its byte-compatible 100% view, the flat wall hatch uses
-an analytic user-space repeating gradient rather than a repeated stroked bitmap
-tile (#685). Therefore the terminal transform-free SVG is rasterised directly
-for its final fractional scale; the live transformed frames may still be
-temporarily soft, but the idle frame must not retain a resampled hatch texture.
-Door, window and gate strokes share that terminal SVG, and passages remain real
-negative wall geometry.
 
 ## English and Russian ship whole (#400)
 
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 266fcf9f..ce830f89 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@
   screen pixels, remains uniform when a stair is resized or rotated, and uses
   the same physical value in View, the Plan editor and PDF
   ([#688](https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card/issues/688)).
+- With the day/night background, the plan no longer turns blurry after zooming
+  in: walls, hatching and openings stay as sharp as when the page is opened at
+  that zoom. Navigating a strongly zoomed plan no longer makes the page flash
+  white. The wall hatching of
+  [#685](https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card/issues/685) is reverted to
+  its earlier pattern, which it did not fix and which gained stepped stripe
+  edges ([#689](https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card/issues/689)).
 
 ## v1.78.0-beta.8 — 2026-09-28
 
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md
index 72e22bc2..0009827d 100755
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@
   остаётся постоянной в экранных пикселях, не искажается при изменении размера
   и повороте и одинаково применяется в просмотре, редакторе плана и PDF
   ([#688](https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card/issues/688)).
+- С фоном день/ночь план больше не становится размытым после приближения:
+  стены, штриховка и проёмы остаются такими же чёткими, как при открытии
+  страницы сразу на этом масштабе. Навигация по сильно приближенному плану
+  больше не вызывает белого мигания страницы. Штриховка стен из
+  [#685](https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card/issues/685) возвращена к
+  прежнему узору: она не исправляла проблему и добавила ступенчатые края полос
+  ([#689](https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card/issues/689)).
 
 ## v1.78.0-beta.8 — 2026-09-28
 
diff --git a/docs/SUN.md b/docs/SUN.md
index adc70f07..7a29fe0a 100644
--- a/docs/SUN.md
+++ b/docs/SUN.md
@@ -93,6 +93,18 @@ The public setting remains a two-value selector. `static` uses `bg_color`.
   neither the filter nor the hint. The non-interactive static space card uses
   the same stage-sized day-cycle outline from its first frame because it has no
   camera gesture that could activate a fallback later (#582).
+- The sibling stays stage-sized at every zoom (#689). The full card clips it to
+  its own box (`.stage .hp-paper-outline-svg { overflow: hidden }`) and marks it
+  `data-hp-live-overflow="clip"`, so a gesture never exposes it either: a filter
+  layer precedes any `clip-path`, and an open outline spanned the whole paper
+  at the current zoom — 12.8× the stage at ~460 % and hundreds of MB at 800 % ×
+  DPR 2, which made navigation flash white. Its glow may be missing on an
+  incoming edge for at most one budgeted `viewBox` refresh. The visible scene
+  keeps the explicit layer #582 requires, but through `will-change: opacity`:
+  a `will-change: transform` hint froze its raster scale, so after zooming from
+  100 % to 800 % the plan showed the stretched 100 % raster while a page opened
+  at 800 % was sharp. Both were verified by the owner in Chrome 152;
+  `demo/smoke_daycycle_zoom_layers.mjs` measures the layers and the hint.
 - Only the environment and the zero-offset alpha-aware outline outside the
   grouped plan-paper footprint change. The plan, paper, floors, room fills,
   Glow/spill, devices, labels, decor/backdrop, vacuum, hover, and window rays
diff --git a/docs/WALL-THICKNESS.md b/docs/WALL-THICKNESS.md
index 5aa88884..48c01d1c 100644
--- a/docs/WALL-THICKNESS.md
+++ b/docs/WALL-THICKNESS.md
@@ -294,18 +294,6 @@ thinner than `HATCH_MIN_STEP_PX = 2` (`wallHatchNeedsSolid`). The step is
 clamped to `[0.5, 80]` units so a pathological `cell_cm` cannot degenerate the
 pattern.
 
-At the byte-compatible 100% view the interactive flat card keeps that
-historical pattern. Once the settled camera actually scales the plan, it paints
-the unchanged geometry as an analytic repeating `linearGradient` (#685), not as
-a small stroked SVG tile. The gradient vector is normal to the stripes, has
-exactly one physical hatch step of length, and its two hard-stop edges preserve
-the historical stroke/gap ratio and phase. This distinction is raster-only: it
-prevents Chromium/HA WebView from keeping a soft resampled tile at a fractional
-settled zoom. Stored walls, centimetre depth, hatch angle and density do not
-change. The non-interactive space card may keep the historical pattern because
-it has no live camera; the density smoke normalises both paint servers to the
-same geometry.
-
 A variable-offset join where exactly one adjacent edge has zero depth is a
 local flat cap, not a mitre. Both `inset` and `outset` retain the physical
 edge's offset point followed by the untouched zero-edge vertex (or the reverse
diff --git a/docs/testing-notes/mutation-browser-guards.md b/docs/testing-notes/mutation-browser-guards.md
index b16d7ca1..b99aeef4 100644
--- a/docs/testing-notes/mutation-browser-guards.md
+++ b/docs/testing-notes/mutation-browser-guards.md
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ The invariant depends on computed CSS, SVG paint, clipping, stacking or pixels p
 - `device-unavailable-hover-restored`
 - `golden-filled-tunnel-removed`
 - `golden-lamp-out-of-reach`
-- `hatch-static-gradient-repeat-disabled`
 - `hatch-static-renderer-untouched`
 - `hatch-stroke-not-scaled`
+- `hatch-zoom-compensation-back`
 - `iso-first-frame-reveals-flat-during-lazy-load`
 - `iso-room-label-44-box-centres-name`
 - `iso-sun-card-drops-occluders`
diff --git a/scripts/mutation-registry.mjs b/scripts/mutation-registry.mjs
index c1421691..5f177680 100644
--- a/scripts/mutation-registry.mjs
+++ b/scripts/mutation-registry.mjs
@@ -4004,6 +4004,59 @@ const MUTANT_DEFINITIONS = [
       replace: '',
     }],
   },
+  {
+    id: 'daycycle-scene-transform-hint-back',
+    guard: 'npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json && node scripts/fix-test-build.mjs '
+      + '&& node --test test/daycycle-layers.test.mjs',
+    because: '#689 K1: a will-change: transform hint freezes the scene raster scale; after '
+      + 'zooming from 100 % the plan shows the stretched 100 % raster (owner, Chrome 152). '
+      + 'Browser proof: demo/smoke_daycycle_zoom_layers.mjs',
+    patches: [{
+      file: 'src/styles/plan.styles.ts',
+      find: '    .stage.daycycle.hp-safe-daycycle-outline .plan-svg {\n'
+        + '      will-change: opacity;\n',
+      replace: '    .stage.daycycle.hp-safe-daycycle-outline .plan-svg {\n'
+        + '      will-change: transform;\n',
+    }],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'daycycle-outline-overflow-visible',
+    guard: 'npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json && node scripts/fix-test-build.mjs '
+      + '&& node --test test/daycycle-layers.test.mjs',
+    because: '#689 K3: an unclipped filtered outline covers the whole paper at the current '
+      + 'zoom (12.8x the stage at ~460 %, far more at 800 %) and navigation flashes white',
+    patches: [{
+      file: 'src/styles/plan.styles.ts',
+      find: '    .stage .hp-paper-outline-svg { overflow: hidden; }\n',
+      replace: '    .stage .hp-paper-outline-svg { overflow: visible; }\n',
+    }],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'live-exposure-unbounded',
+    guard: 'npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json && node scripts/fix-test-build.mjs '
+      + '&& node --test test/live-viewport.test.mjs',
+    because: '#689 K3: without the clip a projected scene exposes its whole content and the '
+      + 'promoted layer grows with zoom squared (plan-svg 15.9x the stage at ~460 %)',
+    patches: [{
+      file: 'src/live-viewport.ts',
+      find: '  if (expose && style.clipPath !== LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP) {\n'
+        + '    style.clipPath = LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP;\n'
+        + '  }\n',
+      replace: '',
+    }],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'live-exposure-opens-clipped-scene',
+    guard: 'npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json && node scripts/fix-test-build.mjs '
+      + '&& node --test test/live-viewport.test.mjs',
+    because: '#689 K3: the filtered day/night outline must never be opened by a gesture: its '
+      + 'filter layer precedes any clip-path and would again span the whole paper',
+    patches: [{
+      file: 'src/live-viewport.ts',
+      find: "  && (layer as unknown as Element).getAttribute?.(SCENE_OVERFLOW_ATTRIBUTE) !== 'clip';",
+      replace: '  && true;',
+    }],
+  },
   {
     id: 'opening-light-quantum-identity',
     guard: 'node --test --test-name-pattern="#366" test/logic.test.mjs',
@@ -7824,24 +7877,24 @@ const MUTANT_DEFINITIONS = [
   {
     id: 'hatch-stroke-not-scaled',
     guard: 'node demo/smoke_wall_hatch_density.mjs',
-    because: 'штриховка обязана следовать за шагом: иначе на мелкой клетке '
-      + 'полосы слипаются в сплошное пятно, а на крупной расходятся',
+    because: 'штрих обязан следовать за шагом: иначе на мелкой клетке полосы '
+      + 'слипаются в сплошное пятно, а на крупной становятся волосяными',
     patches: [{
       file: 'src/houseplan-card.ts',
-      find: 'x2=${hatchStep} gradientTransform=rotate(45)',
-      replace: 'x2=${hatchStep * 7 / 8} gradientTransform=rotate(45)',
+      find: '    const stripe = 2 * (hatchStep / HATCH_BASE_STEP_UNITS);',
+      replace: '    const stripe = 2;',
     }],
   },
   {
-    id: 'hatch-static-gradient-repeat-disabled',
-    guard: 'node demo/smoke_static_zoom_sharpness.mjs',
-    because: 'без repeat аналитический paint-server оставляет одну полосу и '
-      + 'возвращает масштабозависимую пустую/мягкую штриховку #685; терминальный '
-      + 'smoke обязан доказывать стабилизацию, а не только конечный viewBox',
+    id: 'hatch-zoom-compensation-back',
+    guard: 'node demo/smoke_wall_hatch_density.mjs',
+    because: 'компенсация 1/zoom возвращает ровно то, ради устранения чего '
+      + 'задача и делалась: стена меняет вид при зуме (решение владельца §4.2)',
     patches: [{
       file: 'src/houseplan-card.ts',
-      find: 'gradientTransform=rotate(45) spreadMethod=repeat',
-      replace: 'gradientTransform=rotate(45) spreadMethod=pad',
+      find: '        width="${hatchStep}" height="${hatchStep}" patternTransform="rotate(45)">',
+      replace: '        width="${hatchStep}" height="${hatchStep}"\n'
+        + '        patternTransform="rotate(45) scale(${Math.max(0.4, 1 / Math.max(this._zoom, 0.4)).toFixed(3)})">',
     }],
   },
   {
@@ -9728,7 +9781,7 @@ const MUTANT_DEFINITIONS = [
       + 'until pointerup or a budgeted viewBox refresh; terminal screenshots miss the defect',
     patches: [{
       file: 'src/live-viewport.ts',
-      find: "  if (options.exposeSceneOverflow && style.overflow !== 'visible') {\n"
+      find: "  if (expose && style.overflow !== 'visible') {\n"
         + "    style.overflow = 'visible';\n"
         + '  }',
       replace: '',
diff --git a/src/houseplan-card.ts b/src/houseplan-card.ts
index 290d9d1c..3b37c652 100755
--- a/src/houseplan-card.ts
+++ b/src/houseplan-card.ts
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ import {
   innerContourForRoom, roomWallProfile, outsetContour, openingInnerFaceOffsetFromIndex,
   openingTunnelGeometriesFromIndex, openingWallIndex as buildOpeningWallIndex, drawWallPreviewD,
   DRAW_WALL_DEFAULT_CM, normalizeWallIntervals, intervalCmAt, wallBodyNeedsSolid,
-  wallHatchNeedsSolid, wallHatchStepUnits, type OpeningTunnelGeometry,
+  wallHatchNeedsSolid, wallHatchStepUnits, HATCH_BASE_STEP_UNITS, type OpeningTunnelGeometry,
   type OpeningWallIndex, type WallEntry, type WallInterval,
 } from './wall-thickness';
 import type { JunctionLimitViolation, JunctionSharedGeometry } from './junction-limits';
@@ -10736,11 +10736,11 @@ export class HouseplanCard extends LitElement {
     );
     const transitionStageBg = modeVisual?.stageColor || stageBg;
     const transitionBrightness = modeVisual?.sceneBrightness ?? 1;
-    // View owns the eager hatch; 100% stays byte-compatible, scaled views avoid a cached tile.
+    // View owns the eager hatch: one pattern at every zoom (#689 reverted #685's gradient).
     const hatchStep = wallHatchStepUnits(this._cellCm);
-    const wallHatch = svg`<defs>${this._zoom === 1
-      ? svg`<pattern id=hp-wall-hatch patternUnits=userSpaceOnUse width=${hatchStep} height=${hatchStep} patternTransform=rotate(45)><path d="M0 0V${hatchStep}" stroke=${disp.color} stroke-width=${hatchStep / 4}/></pattern>`
-      : svg`<linearGradient id=hp-wall-hatch gradientUnits=userSpaceOnUse x2=${hatchStep} gradientTransform=rotate(45) spreadMethod=repeat><stop offset=.125 stop-color=${disp.color}/><stop offset=.125 stop-opacity=0 /><stop offset=.875 stop-opacity=0 /><stop offset=.875 stop-color=${disp.color}/></linearGradient>`}</defs>`;
+    const stripe = 2 * (hatchStep / HATCH_BASE_STEP_UNITS);
+    const wallHatch = svg`<defs><pattern id="hp-wall-hatch" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse"
+        width="${hatchStep}" height="${hatchStep}" patternTransform="rotate(45)"><path d="M0 0 L0 ${hatchStep}" stroke="${disp.color || '#607d8b'}" stroke-width="${stripe}"></path></pattern></defs>`;
     const editorClose = html`<span class="editor-close-slot" aria-hidden=${this._mode === 'view' ? 'true' : nothing}>${this._mode !== 'view' ? html`<button
           class="closex" title=${this._t('title.close_editor')} aria-label=${this._t('title.close_editor')} data-hp="editor-close" data-editor-navigation="view"
           @click=${(e: Event) => { e.stopPropagation(); this._setMode('view'); }}><ha-icon icon="mdi:close"></ha-icon></button>`
@@ -10884,7 +10884,7 @@ export class HouseplanCard extends LitElement {
               ${isoFrame?.underlay ?? nothing}
             </svg>` : nothing}
           ${dayCycle && paperShapes.length ? svg`<svg class="hp-paper-outline-svg"
-              data-hp-live-viewbox=${iso ? 'camera' : 'floor'}
+              data-hp-live-viewbox=${iso ? 'camera' : 'floor'} data-hp-live-overflow="clip"
               viewBox="${view.x} ${view.y} ${view.w} ${view.h}"
               preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" aria-hidden="true" pointer-events="none">
               <g transform=${iso ? isoFloorMatrixCss() : nothing}>
diff --git a/src/live-viewport.ts b/src/live-viewport.ts
index d30b6643..f3a0b711 100644
--- a/src/live-viewport.ts
+++ b/src/live-viewport.ts
@@ -109,19 +109,43 @@ const projectionText = (projection: LiveLayerProjection): string =>
   `translate(${projection.translateXPercent}%,${projection.translateYPercent}%)`
   + ` scale(${projection.scaleX},${projection.scaleY})`;
 
+/**
+ * #689: how far an exposed scene may paint beyond its own viewport box while
+ * it is projected. The budgeted `viewBox` refresh fires at a 15 % shift or
+ * scale change (`LIVE_VIEWBOX_REFRESH_SHIFT`), so 25 % covers every incoming
+ * edge #544 needs. Unbounded `overflow: visible` let a promoted scene layer
+ * grow with zoom² — 15.9× the stage at ~460 %, hundreds of MB of GPU memory at
+ * 800 % × DPR 2 — and the page flashed white.
+ */
+export const LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP = 'inset(-25%)';
+
+/** A scene marked so is clipped to its own box and never exposed (#689). */
+const SCENE_OVERFLOW_ATTRIBUTE = 'data-hp-live-overflow';
+
+const exposesOverflow = (
+  layer: ElementCSSInlineStyle,
+  options: { exposeSceneOverflow?: boolean },
+): boolean => options.exposeSceneOverflow === true
+  && (layer as unknown as Element).getAttribute?.(SCENE_OVERFLOW_ATTRIBUTE) !== 'clip';
+
 const setLayerProjection = (
   layer: ElementCSSInlineStyle,
   projection: LiveLayerProjection | null,
   options: { exposeSceneOverflow?: boolean } = {},
 ): void => {
   const style = layer.style;
+  const expose = exposesOverflow(layer, options);
   if (!projection) {
     // #544: the SVG viewport may be opened only while it is being projected.
-    // `.stage` remains the outer clip, while removing this inline value keeps
-    // the settled DOM and filter/compositing path byte-equivalent to #531.
-    if (options.exposeSceneOverflow && style.overflow === 'visible') {
+    // `.stage` remains the outer clip, while removing these inline values
+    // keeps the settled DOM and filter/compositing path byte-equivalent to
+    // #531. The bound (#689) leaves together with the exposure it bounds.
+    if (expose && style.overflow === 'visible') {
       style.removeProperty('overflow');
     }
+    if (expose && style.clipPath === LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP) {
+      style.removeProperty('clip-path');
+    }
     // #531: снимать только то, что стоит. Лишняя запись в стиль — это
     // инвалидация, а тихий кадр обязан оставлять DOM нетронутым.
     if (style.transform) {
@@ -134,10 +158,14 @@ const setLayerProjection = (
   // A transformed SVG keeps its old viewport box. Without exposing the scene
   // beyond that internal box, the incoming edge shows `.stage` background
   // until the next budgeted viewBox refresh (#544). The stage still clips the
-  // complete card, so no scene pixels escape the visible plan surface.
-  if (options.exposeSceneOverflow && style.overflow !== 'visible') {
+  // complete card, so no scene pixels escape the visible plan surface; the
+  // clip keeps the promoted layer stage-sized at any zoom (#689).
+  if (expose && style.overflow !== 'visible') {
     style.overflow = 'visible';
   }
+  if (expose && style.clipPath !== LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP) {
+    style.clipPath = LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP;
+  }
   const text = projectionText(projection);
   // Promotion is gesture-scoped, not a per-frame hint (#579). Avoid even
   // equal writes while the projection changes: WebViews may treat them as
diff --git a/src/styles/plan.styles.ts b/src/styles/plan.styles.ts
index 5ca627b8..f2377afb 100644
--- a/src/styles/plan.styles.ts
+++ b/src/styles/plan.styles.ts
@@ -113,8 +113,17 @@ export const planStyles = css`
     .stage.daycycle.hp-safe-daycycle-outline .hp-paper-outline-svg {
       transition: none;
     }
+    /* #689: the scene keeps its explicit stage-sized layer (#582: never an
+       implicit overlap layer over the promoted outline), but through an
+       opacity hint, not a transform hint. Chromium freezes the raster scale
+       of a will-change: transform layer, so after zooming from 100 % to 800 %
+       the plan showed the 100 % raster stretched eightfold, while a page
+       loaded at 800 % was sharp (owner-verified in Chrome 152). An opacity
+       hint re-rasters at the current scale; translateZ(0) computes to a 2D
+       identity there and is no stable layer reason. The live viewport's
+       inline transform hint still owns a gesture (#579). */
     .stage.daycycle.hp-safe-daycycle-outline .plan-svg {
-      will-change: transform;
+      will-change: opacity;
     }
     @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
       .hp-day-cycle-bg,
@@ -235,6 +244,13 @@ export const planStyles = css`
       visibility: hidden;
     }
     .stage.hp-safe-daycycle-outline .hp-paper-outline-svg { visibility: visible; }
+    /* #689: the full card's filtered outline is clipped to its own box. With
+       overflow visible its filter layer covered the whole paper at the
+       current zoom — 12.8× the stage at ~460 %, hundreds of MB at 800 % ×
+       DPR 2 — and navigation flashed white. It is marked
+       data-hp-live-overflow="clip" so a gesture never exposes it either; the
+       static card keeps its fixed-view outline unchanged. */
+    .stage .hp-paper-outline-svg { overflow: hidden; }
     .hp-static-stage .hp-paper-outline-svg { visibility: visible; }
     .iso-underlay-svg { z-index: 0; overflow: visible; }
     .iso-shadows-svg { z-index: 3; overflow: visible; }
diff --git a/test/daycycle-layers.test.mjs b/test/daycycle-layers.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c68c3640
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/daycycle-layers.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// #689: day/night composition must not freeze the plan raster nor grow with
+// zoom². The browser proof lives in demo/smoke_static_zoom_sharpness.mjs and
+// demo/smoke_daycycle_layer_budget.mjs; this suite pins the cascade without
+// Chromium so the mutants that guard it stay off the capped browser
+// inventory (#659).
+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { planStyles } from '../test-build/styles.js';
+
+/** Top-level and @media rules of one stylesheet as [selectors[], decls{}]. */
+const rulesOf = (cssText) => {
+  const text = cssText.replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, '');
+  const out = [];
+  const walk = (chunk) => {
+    let i = 0;
+    while (i < chunk.length) {
+      const open = chunk.indexOf('{', i);
+      if (open === -1) break;
+      const header = chunk.slice(i, open).replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
+      let depth = 1, j = open + 1;
+      while (j < chunk.length && depth > 0) {
+        if (chunk[j] === '{') depth++;
+        else if (chunk[j] === '}') depth--;
+        j++;
+      }
+      const body = chunk.slice(open + 1, j - 1);
+      if (header.startsWith('@media') || header.startsWith('@supports')) walk(body);
+      else if (!header.startsWith('@')) {
+        const decls = {};
+        for (const part of body.split(';')) {
+          const colon = part.indexOf(':');
+          if (colon > 0) decls[part.slice(0, colon).trim()] = part.slice(colon + 1).trim();
+        }
+        out.push([header.split(',').map((s) => s.trim()), decls]);
+      }
+      i = j;
+    }
+  };
+  walk(text);
+  return out;
+};
+
+const RULES = rulesOf(planStyles.cssText);
+const touching = (predicate) => RULES.filter(([sels]) => sels.some(predicate));
+
+test('#689 K1: no plan-svg rule carries a will-change: transform hint', () => {
+  const hinted = touching((s) => /\.plan-svg\b/.test(s))
+    .filter(([, d]) => /\btransform\b/.test(d['will-change'] || ''));
+  assert.deepEqual(hinted.map(([sels]) => sels.join(', ')), []);
+});
+
+test('#689 K1: the safe day/night scene keeps an explicit layer via an opacity hint', () => {
+  const decls = RULES.filter(([sels]) => sels.includes('.stage.daycycle.hp-safe-daycycle-outline .plan-svg'))
+    .map(([, d]) => d);
+  assert.ok(decls.some((d) => d['will-change'] === 'opacity'), 'the #582 explicit layer must stay');
+});
+
+test('#689 K3: the full card clips its filtered outline to its own box', () => {
+  const clip = RULES.filter(([sels]) => sels.includes('.stage .hp-paper-outline-svg')).map(([, d]) => d);
+  assert.ok(clip.some((d) => d.overflow === 'hidden'), '.stage .hp-paper-outline-svg must be overflow: hidden');
+  const opened = touching((s) => /^\.stage\b/.test(s) && /\.hp-paper-outline-svg\b/.test(s))
+    .filter(([, d]) => d.overflow === 'visible');
+  assert.deepEqual(opened.map(([sels]) => sels.join(', ')), []);
+});
diff --git a/test/live-viewport.test.mjs b/test/live-viewport.test.mjs
index 5cf14a9c..3876446f 100644
--- a/test/live-viewport.test.mjs
+++ b/test/live-viewport.test.mjs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import test from 'node:test';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
 
 import {
+  LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP,
   isIdentityLiveLayerProjection,
   liveLayerProjection,
   liveViewBoxText,
@@ -234,3 +235,42 @@ test('#531 изометрия: камера и пол проецируются 
   assert.equal(root.camera.style.transform, undefined);
   assert.equal(root.floor.style.transform, undefined);
 });
+
+// #689. Unbounded `overflow: visible` let a projected scene layer grow with
+// zoom² (CDP LayerTree, ~460 %: plan-svg 15.9× and the day-cycle outline
+// 13.2× the stage); at 800 % × DPR 2 that is hundreds of MB of GPU memory
+// and the page flashed white. The exposure is bounded and leaves with it.
+test('#689 AC3: exposure is bounded by a clip that leaves together with it', () => {
+  const root = fakeRoot();
+  const painted = frame(0, 0);
+  let anchor = paintLiveViewport(root, painted, painted, null, { now: 0 });
+  anchor = paintLiveViewport(root, painted, frame(10, 0), anchor, { now: 10 });
+  assert.equal(LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP, 'inset(-25%)');
+  for (const scene of [root.camera, root.cameraPeer, root.floor]) {
+    assert.equal(scene.style.overflow, 'visible', 'the incoming edge is still exposed (#544)');
+    assert.equal(scene.style.clipPath, LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP, 'but only within the bound');
+  }
+  assert.equal(root.layer.style.clipPath, undefined, 'HTML layers get no scene clip');
+  paintLiveViewport(root, painted, painted, anchor, { now: 20, force: true });
+  for (const scene of [root.camera, root.cameraPeer, root.floor]) {
+    assert.equal(scene.style.overflow, undefined, 'idle DOM keeps no exposure (#531)');
+    assert.equal(scene.style.clipPath, undefined, 'idle DOM keeps no clip (#531)');
+    assert.equal(scene.style.transform, undefined);
+    assert.ok(scene.styleRemovals.includes('clip-path'));
+  }
+});
+
+test('#689 AC3: a scene marked clip is projected but never exposed', () => {
+  const root = fakeRoot();
+  root.floor.attrs['data-hp-live-overflow'] = 'clip';
+  const painted = frame(0, 0);
+  let anchor = paintLiveViewport(root, painted, painted, null, { now: 0, keepSceneLayer: true });
+  anchor = paintLiveViewport(root, painted, frame(10, 0), anchor, { now: 10, keepSceneLayer: true });
+  assert.match(root.floor.style.transform, /^translate\(-1%,0%\) scale\(1,1\)$/, 'it still follows the gesture');
+  assert.equal(root.floor.style.overflow, undefined, 'the filtered outline is never opened');
+  assert.equal(root.floor.style.clipPath, undefined);
+  assert.equal(root.camera.style.clipPath, LIVE_SCENE_EXPOSURE_CLIP, 'unmarked scenes are still exposed');
+  paintLiveViewport(root, painted, painted, anchor, { now: 20, force: true });
+  assert.equal(root.floor.style.transform, undefined);
+  assert.equal(root.floor.styleRemovals.includes('overflow'), false, 'nothing to remove, nothing written');
+});