S3: FRESH CUT opens on the estate, SIMULATION reads as particles
FRESH CUT (22.5 s, was 22 with a 25 s shot list):
- New ten-shot list: a 3.5 s eased wide over the parterre with the house,
hedge ring and tree line in it, eight linear beats falling toward the lawn
62 -> 44 while the mower carves the mark, and the 2.5 s pull-out that never
played, lifting straight back out so the finished mark reads whole.
The first six seconds were an interior nobody asked for.
- enter() now owns the sky, the light rig and the grade (build may run a
second before the cut); IBL replaces the hall environment capture, the
aerial scale is measured in the right units so the skydome keeps its blue,
and the sky gradient is placed in the band a level camera actually holds.
- Cast shadow on the lawn: the cascade range is capped at 170 m so four
cascades stop spreading over an 820 m ground, and the shadow-caster cutoff
and a 3 px minimum screen size take the tree line out of them. Restored in
exit. 1431 draws -> 652 at the same 259 entities.
- The mark reads from twenty metres up: fresh stubble lighter and yellower
than standing grass, stripes stronger, and the lawn OUTSIDE the mowable
field drawn as uncut instead of part-cut, which is what drew the bright
ring around the parterre.
- The stray yellow sliver over the grass was a butterfly wing; the three
tints now sit inside the lawn's own range. Clippings smaller and greener.
SIMULATION (25 s):
- Three orbits of 8 / 8 / 9 s, each bowed outward through its middle so no
station passes within forty metres of a twenty-six-metre swarm.
- Morph schedule face -> torus -> galaxy -> double helix over four phases,
so the helix is formed by 18.75 and holds as the closing image.
- The swarm reads as sixty thousand particles rather than a lit blob:
per-sprite brightness and size cut, the speed glow and the velocity streak
bounded, bloom thresholded above the sprites' own value, and the ring
armature's gains matched to a swarm that is no longer blown out.
- enter() owns the void sky and the light rig; bars declared on the part.