Failure 01 · concurrency
Synchronized nine-frame pileup
Retained
All twelve events share the same short clock. The palette survives, but the colors stack instead of handing off.
Round 01 · palette + absence
How the gorgeous mess happened
Twelve sparse pigment events preserved the palette, but synchronized timing stacked them into one pile. Multiply made that pile into dark digital mud. Staggering fixed the layering and revealed a second failure: the whole score was over in one second.
- Outcome
- 12 sources · 2 failure modes
- Active build time
- 1h 07m 56s
- Scope
- 14 generated images
Edit path
From full pileup to a staggered score
Each 3×3 pigment atlas contains only three to five painted states and deliberate empty cells. The first test placed all twelve events on one nine-frame clock; the second changed blend mode; the third converted paper to alpha and placed events on different starts across twenty-four slots.
- Generate sparse sources. Twelve pigment-specific atlases mix empty cells, blobs, and short crescents.
- Expose synchronization. All events share one short clock, so color stacks instead of handing off.
- Reject multiply. Dark overlaps destroy the luminous palette.
- Preserve the paint. Extract watercolor alpha and use ordinary source-over compositing.
- Stagger the events. Roughly two colors remain active per frame, but 24 fps compresses the score into a blink.
Retained failures
Both misses explain the next move
Do not delete
Failure 02 · cadence
One-second staggered loop
Retained
The layering improves, but twenty-four distinct slots at 24 fps turn every color event into a blink.
Construction record
Concept, pileup, stagger, blend failure
Blend comparison
Three directions before and after multiply
The palette-preserving revisions keep the same paintings and replace only the destructive blend logic.
Round-one source library
Twelve sparse color events
108 source cells
The original 3×3 sheets mix empty cells, blobs, and short crescents. Their uneven event spans are why the timing recipes still pop and break the orb.
