{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "time-garden",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "status": "published",
  "kind": "background",
  "title": "Time Grows Here",
  "summary": "A jewelled mechanical watch grows into a gold-and-copper flower: fourteen metal petals unfold from precision hinges around turning gears and a ruby. Loops.",
  "description": "A compact, jewel-set watch movement sits in a brass case: cut-out gears turn, a coiled balance spring winds and ruby filaments stand. Fourteen concave metal petals unfold from precision hinges until the watch has become a gold-and-copper flower, then they fold back into the case, so the 12 seconds loop. The metal is ray-marched with polished and satin finishes, contact shadows and reflections of a studio light panel. The film has no settings.",
  "role": "Shader film (three.js): Kinetic metalwork, a finished 12-second portrait film with no settings.",
  "collections": [
    "impossible-worlds",
    "chrome-glass",
    "product-reveals",
    "hypnotic-loops"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "watch",
    "mechanical",
    "flower",
    "gears",
    "gold",
    "copper",
    "clockwork",
    "kinetic",
    "metal",
    "ruby",
    "jewel",
    "blooming",
    "luxury",
    "loop",
    "portrait film"
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    "watch becomes a flower",
    "mechanical flower",
    "gold gear flower",
    "clockwork flower",
    "blooming watch",
    "kinetic metal sculpture"
  ],
  "useCases": [
    "A watchmaker, jeweller or luxury-brand launch",
    "A \"time\" or \"growth\" theme for a corporate or finance video",
    "A premium product-reveal backdrop"
  ],
  "featured": null,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-10",
  "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",
      "reason": "Renderer and a full-screen shader material."
    },
    {
      "id": "apw-runtime",
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "scope": "demo",
      "reason": "Demo harness."
    }
  ],
  "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. The film has no other settings.",
    "outputs": "An opaque full-frame picture, already in display colours: render it straight to the canvas.",
    "coordinates": "Composed for a 4:5 portrait frame and measured by the frame height: in a wider frame the picture stays centred at full height and its background fills the sides; in a narrower one, such as 9:16, the sides are cropped.",
    "lighting": "A large softbox above left, a cool blue edge light and a warm low kicker, reflected in polished gold and copper, with contact shadows.",
    "timing": "The watch mechanism turns, the fourteen petals extend on their hinges into a flower, then fold back into the watch.",
    "compatibleWith": [],
    "notes": [
      "It is the heaviest film in the collection: about 90 ms a frame on an integrated GPU. Use the rendered video for playback.",
      "The petals are thin shells, so they have no holes or gaps at any angle.",
      "Every pixel is a function of the time alone, so frames can be rendered in any order."
    ]
  },
  "reuse": [
    "Luxury launch: the flower stands fully open through the middle of the loop.",
    "Seamless loop: it folds back into the watch, so it repeats for any length.",
    "Time-and-growth metaphor: a ready-made single shot for annual reports and keynotes."
  ],
  "integration": {
    "newProject": "Create a WebGLRenderer on a canvas (no antialiasing), call createTimeGarden() once and film.setSize(width, height); then for each frame call film.update(timeInSeconds) and renderer.render(film.scene, film.camera).",
    "existingProject": "Copy src/time-garden.js, which needs only three. Render film.scene with film.camera into your own canvas or render target; the output is opaque and already in display colours, so use no tone mapping or colour conversion."
  },
  "performance": {
    "notes": "One full-screen fragment shader. About 93 ms a frame at 1080 by 1350 on an integrated Intel GPU (Iris Xe), and about 14 s a frame with software WebGL.",
    "limits": "Real-time playback at full size needs a discrete or recent integrated GPU; on weaker graphics use the rendered video, or draw into a smaller canvas."
  },
  "limitations": [
    "The film is finished: it has no settings. To change colours or timing, edit the shader.",
    "It is composed for a 4:5 portrait frame.",
    "Its length is fixed at 12 seconds; repeat the loop to fill a longer clip."
  ],
  "license": {
    "spdx": "MIT",
    "notice": "Copyright (c) 2026 AI Pixel Wizard. Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE in this folder.",
    "thirdParty": []
  },
  "provenance": "From the owner's collection Twenty Impossible Worlds: the original GLSL ES 3.00 shader of the film “Time Grows Here”, created with ChatGPT / Codex and used as published, wrapped for AI Pixel Wizard as a three.js full-screen shader in October 2026. The collection's synthesised soundtrack is not part of this ingredient.",
  "changelog": [
    {
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "notes": "Initial release."
    }
  ]
}