// NEON THICKET — hard-techno lsystem: boxy 90-degree branches, strobing
// glow, chroma split on the pulse. Pattern taught: right angles + a
// chroma warp stage turn a plant into circuitry.
{
    name: "Neon Thicket"
    engine: "lsystem"
    seed: 77

    axiom: "X"
    rules: ["X=F[+X][-X][/X]FX"]
    iterations: 5
    angle: 90.0
    step: 0.18
    radius: 0.045
    sides: 4
    copies: 2

    sway: 0.12
    twist: 0.0
    speed: 1.2
    beat_pulse: "0.9 * (0.2 + 1.6*p2)"
    glow: "(0.7 + env(phase) * 1.6) * (0.2 + 1.6*p0)"
    // PERFORMANCE DIALS — mid-knob = the stock look, exact.
    p0: 0.5  p1: 0.5  p2: 0.5
    dials: [
        {name: "STROBE", bind: "p0", default: 0.5},
        {name: "SPLIT", bind: "p1", default: 0.5},
        {name: "PUMP", bind: "p2", default: 0.5}
    ]

    color_bg: #x050208
    color_a: #x00ff88
    color_b: #xff00cc
    color_c: #xffffff

    cam_orbit: 0.16
    fog: 0.03

    stages: [
        {kind: "bloom", threshold: 0.4, strength: 1.6, levels: 3},
        {kind: "chroma", p1: "(pulse * 0.5) * (0.2 + 1.6*p1)", p2: 0.13}
    ]

    // THE LOOK LIVES HERE. This block is not a reference to the
    // engine's shader — it IS the pixel math this effect runs.
    // Rewrite it and the effect looks different; everything else
    // (geometry, motion, the content coupling, the beat) keeps
    // working, because the block SUBCLASSES the engine shader.
    // Inputs: t = arc from the root 0..1, attr = (depth, arc, hue, tube radius).
    // Signals: self.time_beat (time, beat, phase, pulse),
    // self.sig (bar, bpm, energy, dt), self.user (p0..p3),
    // self.col_a/b/c/bg, self.fog (density, glow, content, -).
    shader: draw.DrawVjFxMesh {
        fx_displace: fn(pos: vec3, normal: vec3, attr: vec4) -> vec3 {
            return vec3(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
        }

        fx_color: fn(t: float, attr: vec4, normal: vec3, wpos: vec3) -> vec4 {
            let base = self.col_a.mix(self.col_b, clamp(attr.z, 0.0, 1.0))
            let tip = self.col_c * (clamp(t, 0.0, 1.0) * 0.35)
            let flash = self.col_c * (self.time_beat.w * 0.5)
            return vec4(base.xyz + tip.xyz + flash.xyz, 1.0)
        }
    }
}