pad_moth

The sugar moths. The mesh is a lattice of degenerate quads; each cell hashes into one moth with its own home over the archipelago, its own wandering orbit, its own roll and its own wingbeat — the quad's span opens and closes on the beat, so a moth is never still even when it is hovering. The wing is drawn as two scalloped lobes and a thread of body, brightest where it is thinnest, which is what makes it read as translucent sugar against the nebula in shot 8.

column is film.column(t): in act three the updraught catches every moth inside catch_r of the mesa's axis, lifts it and spins it into the rising matter, which is the spiral shot 10 asks for.