Twenty more scenes
The library sat at 42 — seven per family, evenly. Even spread is not the same as
useful spread: casting in look/Personality.js disqualifies any scene that does
not honour all of the track's signature traits, so the pool a given track draws
from is much smaller than the shelf count suggests. space and shape are the
thin traits, and they are where a new scene is worth most.
So: twenty scenes, roughly three or four per family, weighted towards space
(8 of 20) and shape (7 of 20), and each one written against a named neighbour
it must not look like. That second column is the real spec — "no two scenes
render the same image" is a gate with a numeric floor, and a scene that cannot
say what it is instead of does not exist yet.
Procedure per scene is .claude/skills/build-visualizer/: scaffold, write the
scene() body, npm run lint:scenes, checks.html?scene=…, then the full suite
before the batch commit.
flow
| # |
scene |
traits |
what it is |
not like |
| 1 |
Rain Column |
camera, space, style |
falling sheets of rain in depth layers, sheared by wind |
Smoke Column rises and diffuses; this falls and stays discrete |
| 2 |
Magnet Lines |
shape, camera, style |
iron-filing field lines around drifting poles |
Curl Flow advects noise; here the field is solved, not sampled |
| 3 |
Kármán Street |
shape, camera, space, style |
vortices shedding off a fixed body, drifting downstream |
Vortex Drift spins the whole frame; this has one still obstacle and a wake |
organic
| # |
scene |
traits |
what it is |
not like |
| 4 |
Turing Bloom |
camera, style |
reaction–diffusion spots and stripes, grown in feedback |
Ink Bleed spreads and stops; this reaches a living equilibrium |
| 5 |
Mycelium Web |
camera, space, style |
threads creeping over a dark substrate, nodes lighting where they meet |
Flora grows upright and symmetric; this is flat, branching and lateral |
| 6 |
Scale Mosaic |
shape, camera, style |
phyllotaxis of overlapping scales, breathing |
Cell Divide splits; this tiles a surface that never divides |
minimal
| # |
scene |
traits |
what it is |
not like |
| 7 |
Pendulum Trace |
camera, style |
one harmonograph curve drawn into a slowly decaying trail |
Silk Ribbon is a wide ribbon; this is a single hairline and its ghost |
| 8 |
Contour Map |
camera, space, style |
sparse topographic contours of a slow height field |
Horizon Lines is a parallel bundle; contours are closed and nested |
| 9 |
Shoji Grid |
shape, camera, style |
backlit paper panels with the signature form cut out of them |
Moiré Grid interferes; this has four or five panels and holds still |
| 10 |
Balance Stack |
shape, camera, space, style |
a few forms stacked on a horizon, long shadows |
Salt Flat has one distant object; this one is near and about to fall |
structural
| # |
scene |
traits |
what it is |
not like |
| 11 |
Suspension Span |
shape, camera, space, style |
cable curves and towers passing overhead |
Girder Lattice is a truss field; this is two curves and a rhythm of hangers |
| 12 |
Stairwell Descent |
camera, space, style |
a recursive stairwell seen straight down |
Gate Corridor moves through gates; this falls through floors |
| 13 |
Aqueduct March |
shape, camera, space, style |
receding arches, tiered |
Pylon Grid is open frames; arches are solid and carry a skyline |
| 14 |
Data Aisle |
camera, space, style |
two racks of indicators receding to a vanishing point |
Neon City is exterior and vast; this is interior and close |
geometric
| # |
scene |
traits |
what it is |
not like |
| 15 |
Voronoi Shatter |
camera, style |
drifting Voronoi cells, edges lit, re-seeding on phrase lines |
Truchet Fold is a regular grid; these cells are irregular and move |
| 16 |
Apollonian Gasket |
camera, style |
circle-inversion packing, infinitely nested |
Quasicrystal is additive interference; this is exact recursive geometry |
| 17 |
Isometric Blocks |
shape, camera, style |
an isometric field of extruded blocks rising on band energy |
Floating Geometry drifts free; this is a solid, gridded, lit surface |
glitch
| # |
scene |
traits |
what it is |
not like |
| 18 |
Halftone Misprint |
camera, style |
CMY halftone screens, misregistered |
nothing else in the library draws dots |
| 19 |
Droste Feedback |
camera, style |
recursive zoom-and-rotate video feedback around a small motif |
Time Smear translates; this scales, so the image eats itself |
| 20 |
Analog Wow |
camera, style |
tape warp: horizontal wobble, chroma bleed, dropout streaks |
Scan Tear and Block Mosh are quantised and blocky; this is continuous and wet |
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