Round 07 · controlled ocean
The twelve-color orb detours into a controlled ocean study. Accepted motion stays fixed while closely related blues test whether movement can read through tonal exchange and sparse depth currents.
Material construction
Mint, cyan, sky, blue, and violet are weighted into eight related materials. No new motion is generated: Round 05 geometry, direct states, source-over compositing, forty-eight frames, and eight-fps timing remain fixed.
Motion reuse map
Family A supplies the water body. Family B contributes narrow ribbons, basins, crescents, squeezes, serpentines, and eyelids. The overview sheets show representative Round 07 states before the individual six-second cycles.
Study A · tonal ocean fields
12 options · Family A only
Closely related washes overlap long enough that motion can read through color exchange, not high contrast. Four explicitly timed events move across forty-eight direct frames.
Tonal ocean field
Four broad gestures trade a simple sky–cyan–blue field with long, unhurried recoil.
Tonal ocean field
Crown and rebound forms repeatedly settle into a low basin before lifting around the wall.
Tonal ocean field
A connected double wave turns through pale cyan while a blue breaker folds beneath it.
Tonal ocean field
The palest study: sea-glass washes overlap in thin planes with only one quiet blue weight.
Tonal ocean field
Impact and undertow gestures move laterally, giving the orb a measured shoreline pull.
Tonal ocean field
A larger blue body turns beneath a thin cyan surface, with the color mass kept intentionally spare.
Tonal ocean field
The barrel-roll study leads, but mist and sea-glass layers soften the collapse into foam-like watercolor.
Tonal ocean field
A whirlpool scoop gives the palest palette a continuous circular drift without a dark center.
Tonal ocean field
A cleaner, bluer field with a single saturated body passing through lighter cyan folds.
Tonal ocean field
Mint, cyan, and sky remain close in value so the movement reads through overlap rather than contrast.
Tonal ocean field
A pendulum bank and impact rebound make the color visibly lean, strike, and return.
Tonal ocean field
Quarter-turned basins make a low horizontal pulse that alternates between sky wash and open blue.
Study B · pale wash + deep current
12 options · Family A + B
Two low-opacity broad layers establish atmosphere. Two sparse layers carry deeper blue, cyan, or violet around the wall. Current opacity receives a recorded 1.45× lift without black, additive blending, or extra ink geometry.
Pale wash + deep current
A pale double wave holds the orb while two narrow blue currents circle its perimeter.
Pale wash + deep current
A light tumbling shelf meets a deep basin and one brief violet-blue crescent.
Pale wash + deep current
A broad pale crown opens behind a rolling indigo arc and a compressed cyan ribbon.
Pale wash + deep current
A transparent undertow carries a darker serpentine current in the opposite direction.
Pale wash + deep current
A light rebound lets a counterbalanced twilight crescent carry most of the visible weight.
Pale wash + deep current
A softened breaker throws one deep-cyan hook, followed by a shorter ultramarine curl.
Pale wash + deep current
Two connected pale reservoirs frame a blue ribbon that visibly narrows and releases.
Pale wash + deep current
A pale tumbling field gives way to three compact dark eddies at measured intervals.
Pale wash + deep current
A nearly white crown is crossed by one concentrated orbiting tongue and a trailing perimeter ribbon.
Pale wash + deep current
Figure-eight atmosphere keeps the center alive while a violet-blue S-curve rolls around it.
Pale wash + deep current
A restrained mist wash makes room for the deepest low basin and a brief counterbalanced accent.
Pale wash + deep current
A quiet sea-glass chase supports one rolling blue eyelid and one short twilight squeeze.
Decision
Round 07 does not name a failed option. Later work selects Matisse lagoon and Abyss ribbon as the two hero bodies, while the complete twenty-four-direction field remains the comparison record.