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Bass as a seasonal portal: routing the kick into a radial alpha mask
The captain-random visualiser stacks two panoramas: spring in front, winter behind. The spring layer carries a radial alpha mask whose radius tracks bass energy. When the kick hits, the mask opens and winter shows through; when the energy decays, spring closes back over it.
Spring became winter on the bass hit. That was the effect that mattered.
Three reactive effects were already live — bloom, particles, waveform — and the visualiser still read as a showcase. The portal changed that: a bass-driven radial mask cuts from spring into winter, and reactive opacity does something reactive motion cannot.
Three effects, one envelope: how the bass signal became the nervous system of this visualiser
The neon bloom formula was written for one layer. Two days later, the same bass envelope was driving particle wobble and a radial time-portal. That convergence wasn't designed — it was pulled out by the kick pattern of a specific track.