Round 06 · palette synthesis

Ten ways to make the finished color move

Five successful Round 05 mechanics return to color. Every repository pigment receives all five cycles before ten recipes choose, rotate, reverse, hold, and layer them.

Outcome: 5 motions · 10 composite recipes
Active build time: 42m 28s
Scope: 60 color-motion sets · 12 diagnostic reels

Material contract

Twelve repo swatches, one measured fluid wall

Canonical swatch PNGs supply the light, middle, and dark pigment bands. Round 05 supplies alpha, density, and geometry. The transfer is deterministic and source-over only: no generic watercolor generation, additive glow, hard circle mask, or interpolated motion.

red canonical watercolor source swatch — red

orange canonical watercolor source swatch — orange

yellow canonical watercolor source swatch — yellow

lime canonical watercolor source swatch — lime

green canonical watercolor source swatch — green

mint canonical watercolor source swatch — mint

cyan canonical watercolor source swatch — cyan

sky canonical watercolor source swatch — sky

blue canonical watercolor source swatch — blue

violet canonical watercolor source swatch — violet

magenta canonical watercolor source swatch — magenta

pink canonical watercolor source swatch — pink

Five-source-mechanics motion bank

The same geometry in every pigment

Two-reservoir transfer, barrel collapse, bowed bridge, fountain return, and kneading lobes were selected from the promoted Round 05 family. Each contact sheet proves the mechanic across all twelve pigments before compositing.

Two-reservoir transfer palette contact sheet — Two-reservoir transfer · Two lobes exchange pigment through a connected bridge.

Barrel collapse palette contact sheet — Barrel collapse · A crest curls into a barrel, collapses, and reforms.

Bowed bridge palette contact sheet — Bowed bridge · A liquid bridge bows down, snaps upward, and twists.

Fountain return palette contact sheet — Fountain return · A connected fork rises, crowns, and drains to its base.

Kneading lobes palette contact sheet — Kneading lobes · Three connected lobes squash, roll, and exchange weight.

All round-six library frames overlaid — All five mechanics and twelve pigments remain attached to the measured wall.

Composite comparison

Ten complete directions

No single winner declared

This is a synthesis round, not a rejection round. All ten directions remain final comparisons; the authored record does not name one promoted winner here.

Direction 6A · 4A cadence

Kinetic rainbow

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 3.00 s
Active colors: 4.5
Coverage: 53.15%
Seam ratio: 0.91

The accepted shared-wall score with all five fluid mechanics distributed evenly through the palette.

Direction 6B · connected flow

Reservoir relay

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 3.00 s
Active colors: 4.5
Coverage: 49.04%
Seam ratio: 1.12

Transfers and bowed bridges pass weight from color to color with very little hard impact.

Direction 6C · rolling surface

Barrel choir

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 3.00 s
Active colors: 4.5
Coverage: 54.6%
Seam ratio: 0.9

Barrel curls and kneading bodies create the round’s most muscular rolling surface.

Direction 6D · opposed movement

Countercurrent

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 3.00 s
Active colors: 4.5
Coverage: 53.44%
Seam ratio: 0.89

Alternating forward and reverse gestures make adjacent colors pull against one another.

Direction 6E · inward lift

Fountain constellation

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 3.00 s
Active colors: 4.5
Coverage: 49.02%
Seam ratio: 0.99

Fountain returns rotate around the wall so the palette repeatedly rises inward and drains back.

Direction 6F · interior life

Chromatic knead

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 3.00 s
Active colors: 4.5
Coverage: 54.76%
Seam ratio: 0.87

Kneading lobes keep more activity inside the orb while transfers protect the shared outside wall.

Direction 6G · minimum overlap

Airy braid

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 4.50 s
Active colors: 3
Coverage: 46.36%
Seam ratio: 0.81

The five motions enter at wider intervals so three colors, rather than five, usually own the frame.

Direction 6H · held states

Slow slosh

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 4.50 s
Active colors: 6
Coverage: 55.99%
Seam ratio: 1.12

Every authored state holds for two beats, turning the short studies into a long, weighty six-color wash.

Direction 6I · physical return

Mirror tide

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 4.50 s
Active colors: 5.33
Coverage: 55.04%
Seam ratio: 1.25

Ping-pong playback lets each color complete its gesture and physically return instead of cutting home.

Direction 6J · measured synthesis

Living orb

Playback: 8 fps
Duration: 6.00 s
Active colors: 4
Coverage: 51.97%
Seam ratio: 0.88

All five mechanics, four active colors, long recoil, and the accepted shared wall across a six-second loop.

Per-pigment diagnostic

Five mechanics through each color

12 reels · 55 frames

Each reel plays transfer, barrel, bridge, fountain, and knead in sequence with two empty frames between cycles. It isolates whether synthesis preserved the pigment before the composite recipes complicate the view.

Color reel