Squashed from work; the fine-grained history is under tag archive/work-2026-08-26:
- vjfx: 104 new presets — the transition lane fills out and the screen family goes wide
- vjfx: three lanes land — engine hooks + hold stage, the videomesh engine, and the audio picture
- vj: the thumbnail pipeline becomes one honest machine, and effects go livecodable
- vj: thumbnails become mp4 — hardware-coded sheets at measured-4K cells, and the bake stops racing the GPU
- store: the ceremony dies — batch publish, one transaction, and the engine stops re-reading its own log
- store: the ceremony dies — batch publish, one transaction, and the engine stops re-reading its own log
- vj: the console grows real transports, and the deck stops lying about reverse
- vj: reverse earns a memory, and the effects stop aging
- fab: a 3D creation shell and the viewer built on it
The VJ's EFFECT surface is a small renderer of its own. An effect is a
`.splash` DOCUMENT — engine choice, stages, fields, parameters and now the
SHADERS THEMSELVES live in the document rather than in Rust. That is the
shape this commit introduces (dev has never seen an intermediate one): a
document is the whole effect, and the Rust side is the engine families that
documents draw with.
The engine families: particles and emitters, GPU sim swarms and fluid, static
meshes (firefly synchrony, harmonograph loom, domino liturgy), tiles, flock,
clouds, city, pipes, stock charts, an SDF raymarcher with a subclassable
`scene_sdf`, and a mountain-jet endless range with a beat-pulsed fighter.
Three things make them a system rather than a demo reel:
- SIM FIELDS — a float simulation-texture primitive, so an engine can carry
GPU state across frames (wind, particles, fluid) instead of being a pure
function of the clock.
- CONTENT COUPLING — `content:` in a document and `input0` on every engine's
tex0, so an effect can consume the program video: drapes, backdrops,
mirrors, billboards, chrome, frescoes, canopy, glass, silk, wall, swarm,
pen and mosaic families all take the picture playing behind them.
- MUSIC BINDING — shaders read the beat, so the whole library moves with the
track rather than on its own clock.
Roughly a hundred seeded preset documents ship with it, each with a lazily
rendered animated thumbnail (rendered 4x and box-downscaled, 16-tap SSAA);
the thumbnail pass went from four minutes to eleven seconds. CONTRACT.md is
the document contract and its verify recipe; IDEAS.md is the campaign tracker.
