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The film has no settings.","role":"Shader film (three.js): Kinetic metalwork, a finished 12-second portrait film with no settings.","useCases":["A watchmaker, jeweller or luxury-brand launch","A \"time\" or \"growth\" theme for a corporate or finance video","A premium product-reveal backdrop"],"synonyms":["watch becomes a flower","mechanical flower","gold gear flower","clockwork flower","blooming watch","kinetic metal sculpture"],"digest":"8008a70b9b8815b1e45cb594ac98a188b8119a6c154abded1371c6c6f950884d","implementation":{"target":"three","runtime":"browser","language":"javascript","module":"esm","entry":"src/time-garden.js","exports":[{"name":"createTimeGarden","signature":"createTimeGarden() => { scene, camera, setSize(width, height), update(time), dispose() }","description":"The film as one full-screen shader; render its scene with its camera straight to the canvas."}],"reusable":["src/time-garden.js"],"demo":"demo.js","harness":"index.html"},"dependencies":[{"id":"three","version":"0.185.1","scope":"source","reason":"Renderer and a full-screen shader material."},{"id":"apw-runtime","version":"1.0.0","scope":"demo","reason":"Demo harness."}],"uses":[],"usedBy":[],"params":[],"presets":[],"output":{"width":1080,"height":1350,"fps":30,"durationSeconds":12,"posterSeconds":8,"alpha":false,"motion":"procedural","loop":{"seamless":true,"cycleSeconds":12,"method":"Every part of the film is a function of the time modulo its length, and every motion completes whole cycles, so the last frame meets the first."},"seed":null},"composition":{"inputs":"The time in seconds, 0 to 12. 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