shaftSea

# seaswell The black water under the gallery of Lucina, seen from the lamp room window. A flat plane whose surface is entirely in the normal: four crossed swells at world scale plus a chop octave, faded out with distance so nothing shimmers at the skyline. The colour is a Fresnel mix from the body of the water at the near angle to what it reflects at the grazing one, with the key light's road laid on it as a tight specular lobe, white water on the crests that face the light, and a haze that carries the far water into the same value the sky's own band under the horizon holds — which is how the drawn sea and the sky meet with no seam at the edge of the plane. `game.world.Dawn` pushes every colour and the light's bearing each frame off the `game.world.firstlight` ramp, so the water turns with the hour: an almost black field under a cold moon road, then blue-violet, then pewter under bone light, and at first light a sheet of apricot with the sun's road running straight at the window.