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One extra JPG, one distance calculation: how a bass-reactive portal made spring and winter share a frame
The temporal portal — a bass-reactive radial hole in the spring layer that reveals a winter panorama underneath — cost one JPEG, one per-pixel distance check, and three lines of bell-curve maths. The seasonal shift was already in the file system.
The portal blooms once at halfway. After that, the bass punches holes in winter.
A bass-masked radial portal already puts winter behind spring — quiet sections show spring, bass hits show winter through the hole. This sprint added the structural move that was missing: at exactly the midpoint of the track, the two 3904×1088 panoramas trade places. The second half runs the same geometry with the seasons inverted.
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.
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.
Not a fade, a life: energy decay and perpendicular wobble in a music visualiser
The onset particles were launching correctly and dying identically. Tying an exponential energy decay to the perpendicular wobble amplitude was the difference between particles that travel and particles that live.