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3 posts tagged "Canvas".

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2026-07-045 min read

A hole in spring: the bass-masked radial portal that skipped the shader

Two panoramas at identical dimensions, one layered in front of the other. Cut a radial hole in the front layer, drive its radius with bass energy, and winter is visible through spring. No shaders, no post-processing pipeline — just winding-order arithmetic on a canvas clip path.

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2026-07-046 min read

Bass as a window: the low end punches a hole in spring and shows you winter

Adding a winter panorama behind the spring layer did nothing until the spring canvas got a radial alpha hole driven by bass frequency. The moment that connection landed, the low end stopped being a brightness signal and became a literal window between seasons.

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2026-06-276 min read

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.

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