R12 · Palette transfer
Full-spectrum crescendo
All twelve repository pigments inherit one fixed behavior body without losing their separation or watercolor texture.
See R12 →Motion workshop · complete retained study
Watercolor Orb
A registered, color-controlled, expressive watercolor motion system, developed across twelve rounds. The record below shows the promoted results first, then follows every question, edit, decision, and retained miss that produced them.
- Sequence
- Reference + R00–R12
- Published archive
- 2,274 indexed artifacts
- Method
- Direct painted states; no synthetic in-betweens
Selected outcomes · R07–R12
What the orb learned to do
Four promoted studies
The later rounds turn the early watercolor language into a controlled system: tonal motion, registered color structure, expressive behavior, and palette transfer. Hover or focus an orb to play it; click for explicit playback.
R11 · Behavior
Magical flare
A rare cyan-violet crest makes delight a bounded behavior, not the resting look.
See R11 →R07 · Tonal motion
Matisse lagoon
Five related blues prove that motion can remain legible without rainbow contrast.
See R07 →R10 · Color structure
Chromatic echo
Two registered color orbits create a quiet everyday edge with enough air left for behavior.
See R10 →Motion reference by Adam Fuhrer · original work.
Reference
Slow plates, generous absences
Intermittent painted plates establish the timing, stagger, and negative space the experiment is trying to recover.
The standard
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R00 · Origin
The spark
The blobby centrifugal language arrives; the first full-orb sprite proves that stacked mass will fail.
1 seed · 1 density miss
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R01 · Retained failures
Palette + absence
Sparse pigments preserve color, but synchronization stacks them and a one-second stagger turns them into blinks.
12 sources · 2 failure modes
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R02 · Timing
Cadence test
The same twenty-four paintings run under six clocks. Quiet pulse, high-rate hold, and breathing dwell continue.
3 promoted · 3 parked
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R03 · Artwork rebuild
Full flourishes
Every pigment becomes a complete small–long–small orbital event while the useful timing structures stay fixed.
12 passed QA · 3 heroes
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R04 · Shared boundary
One liquid wall
Two destructive correction methods are rejected before uniform radial fitting brings 108 paintings to one measured wall.
12 isolated · 3 composites
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R05 · Motion
Fluid slosh library
A dense family, a repetitive sparse family, and ten source-swatch mechanics expose what fluid motion can survive compositing.
10 promoted · 20 learnings
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R06 · Reassembly
Color synthesis
Five accepted mechanics pass deterministically through all twelve pigments and return as complete color directions.
5 motions · 10 recipes
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R07 · Tonal study
Controlled ocean
Broad related blue fields and pale washes with sparse deep currents test motion without rainbow contrast.
24 directions · 2 families
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R08 · Alignment and covers
Wall + hairlines
The ocean receives an angle-aware elastic wall; wash-heavy cover misses give way to ten moving watercolor hairlines.
24 aligned · 10 covers
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R09 · Coordinate rig
Fixed registration
The paintings remain unchanged while every moving line is registered to one fixed center, wall, and feather.
10 fixed · 30 proofs
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R10 · Color structure
Chromatic cover matrix
Six registered cover motions borrow repository ocean pigments, then layer across two hero bodies.
20 recipes · 5 heroes
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R11 · Behavior
Expressive state system
Stable compositions receive idle, listening, thinking, talking, working, and magical-flare behavior under one clock.
5 heroes × 6 states
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R12 · Palette transfer
Alternate-color motion
Two fixed behavior bodies carry ten repository-swatch systems through a five-pass seam correction.
10 palettes × 2 motions
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