Round 10.7
Clean relay
The cleanest production baseline: one dark structural orbit, one pale shell, and no persistent crossing competing with the behavior.
Round 10 sourceRound 11 · expressive state system
Make the orb behave, not just decorate
Five Round 10 compositions become stable characters. Six behavior rules share one six-second clock, while five newly generated, family-registered gestures add listening, thinking, talking, working, and magical-flare events.
- Outcome
- 5 heroes × 6 states · 30 behavior loops
- Active build time
- Not separately recorded
- Scope
- 5 generated gesture families · 35 playable studies
Three views of the complete round
Heroes across, states down
The complete matrix is read in a fixed order so character and state changes can be compared without changing the clock.
Interface-scale review
Read the complete round small, medium, or large
Use the page’s Study size control to judge the same motions as compact status objects or larger material studies. Playback remains paused until the preview itself is hovered, focused, or clicked.
Hero decisions
Give each composition a job
Round 10.9
Tidal stitches
The punctuation hero. Its saturated fragments already speak in beats, while the latitude can be withheld until a state earns it.
Round 10 source
Round 10.10
Pressure atmosphere
The inward-motion hero. A wall dimple and pale halo make listening, intake, and concentration visible without speeding up.
Round 10 source
Round 10.11
Chromatic echo
The everyday edge system: two close orbits separated by color and time, leaving maximum air for occasional behavior.
Round 10 source
Round 10.14
Quiet architecture
The complete low-contrast system. Halo, latitude, and pressure are available, but only arrive together when a state asks for them.
Round 10 source
Behavior grammar
Map expressiveness to visual rules
Every state uses the same forty-eight-frame clock. Energy rises through event timing, inward pull, crossing, wall pressure, and color—not through speed.
Idle
Pale edge breath; almost no interior event.
Present and available without asking for attention.
10.11 becomes the baseline: continuous low-contrast wall presence, lighter color, and an open center.
Listening
Edges inhale; pigment gathers toward a deeper center.
Receive information by pulling attention inward.
The color field moves inward once while an opposed-crescent sprite gathers into a small center well and releases.
Thinking
One temporary latitude crosses a cooler, denser field.
Show an internal model forming, traversing, and resolving.
A full-orb crossing is allowed only as a temporary cognitive flourish; it stays long enough to read, then clears.
Talking
Three measured phrases pulse through halo and stitches.
Externalize language as paced phrases, not an equalizer.
Three unequal events separate consonant-like stitches from the quieter watercolor body between them.
Working
Sustained directional pressure with brighter active edges.
Communicate purposeful tool activity without alarm.
Effort rises through chroma, wall contact, and two long current waves—not through a faster frame rate.
Magical flare
A rare cyan-violet crest blooms and returns to air.
Reserve delight for discovery, completion, or wonder.
10.15 supplies the saturation vocabulary, but it appears in one bounded liquid crescendo and never becomes the resting state.
Isolated generated gestures
Judge the new motion before the composite
5 gesture families
listening
Listening intake
- Material
- deep cyan
- Opacity
- 20%
- Blend
- stain
Opposed rim crescents inhale toward one center well, then release.
thinking
Thinking traverse
- Material
- mineral gray
- Opacity
- 16%
- Blend
- stain
One temporary wet latitude grows across the middle third and clears.
talking
Talking phrases
- Material
- electric blue
- Opacity
- 17%
- Blend
- normal
Three unequal rim-to-interior phrases appear separately, never as one equalizer.
working
Working current
- Material
- open blue
- Opacity
- 14%
- Blend
- stain
A sustained clockwise wall current and quieter counter-current carry effort.
magical-flare
Magical flare
- Material
- electric cyan
- Opacity
- 20%
- Blend
- normal
One liquid crest rises, fans inward at peak, and disappears completely.
10.7 · behavior matrix
Clean relay
6 expressive states
The cleanest production baseline: one dark structural orbit, one pale shell, and no persistent crossing competing with the behavior.
Clean relay
Idle
- Intent
- Present and available without asking for attention.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Pale edge breath; almost no interior event.
10.11 becomes the baseline: continuous low-contrast wall presence, lighter color, and an open center.
Clean relay
Listening
- Intent
- Receive information by pulling attention inward.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Edges inhale; pigment gathers toward a deeper center.
The color field moves inward once while an opposed-crescent sprite gathers into a small center well and releases.
Clean relay
Thinking
- Intent
- Show an internal model forming, traversing, and resolving.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
One temporary latitude crosses a cooler, denser field.
A full-orb crossing is allowed only as a temporary cognitive flourish; it stays long enough to read, then clears.
Clean relay
Talking
- Intent
- Externalize language as paced phrases, not an equalizer.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Three measured phrases pulse through halo and stitches.
Three unequal events separate consonant-like stitches from the quieter watercolor body between them.
Clean relay
Working
- Intent
- Communicate purposeful tool activity without alarm.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Sustained directional pressure with brighter active edges.
Effort rises through chroma, wall contact, and two long current waves—not through a faster frame rate.
Clean relay
Magical flare
- Intent
- Reserve delight for discovery, completion, or wonder.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
A rare cyan-violet crest blooms and returns to air.
10.15 supplies the saturation vocabulary, but it appears in one bounded liquid crescendo and never becomes the resting state.
10.9 · behavior matrix
Tidal stitches
6 expressive states
The punctuation hero. Its saturated fragments already speak in beats, while the latitude can be withheld until a state earns it.
Tidal stitches
Idle
- Intent
- Present and available without asking for attention.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Pale edge breath; almost no interior event.
10.11 becomes the baseline: continuous low-contrast wall presence, lighter color, and an open center.
Tidal stitches
Listening
- Intent
- Receive information by pulling attention inward.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Edges inhale; pigment gathers toward a deeper center.
The color field moves inward once while an opposed-crescent sprite gathers into a small center well and releases.
Tidal stitches
Thinking
- Intent
- Show an internal model forming, traversing, and resolving.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
One temporary latitude crosses a cooler, denser field.
A full-orb crossing is allowed only as a temporary cognitive flourish; it stays long enough to read, then clears.
Tidal stitches
Talking
- Intent
- Externalize language as paced phrases, not an equalizer.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Three measured phrases pulse through halo and stitches.
Three unequal events separate consonant-like stitches from the quieter watercolor body between them.
Tidal stitches
Working
- Intent
- Communicate purposeful tool activity without alarm.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Sustained directional pressure with brighter active edges.
Effort rises through chroma, wall contact, and two long current waves—not through a faster frame rate.
Tidal stitches
Magical flare
- Intent
- Reserve delight for discovery, completion, or wonder.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
A rare cyan-violet crest blooms and returns to air.
10.15 supplies the saturation vocabulary, but it appears in one bounded liquid crescendo and never becomes the resting state.
10.10 · behavior matrix
Pressure atmosphere
6 expressive states
The inward-motion hero. A wall dimple and pale halo make listening, intake, and concentration visible without speeding up.
Pressure atmosphere
Idle
- Intent
- Present and available without asking for attention.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Pale edge breath; almost no interior event.
10.11 becomes the baseline: continuous low-contrast wall presence, lighter color, and an open center.
Pressure atmosphere
Listening
- Intent
- Receive information by pulling attention inward.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Edges inhale; pigment gathers toward a deeper center.
The color field moves inward once while an opposed-crescent sprite gathers into a small center well and releases.
Pressure atmosphere
Thinking
- Intent
- Show an internal model forming, traversing, and resolving.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
One temporary latitude crosses a cooler, denser field.
A full-orb crossing is allowed only as a temporary cognitive flourish; it stays long enough to read, then clears.
Pressure atmosphere
Talking
- Intent
- Externalize language as paced phrases, not an equalizer.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Three measured phrases pulse through halo and stitches.
Three unequal events separate consonant-like stitches from the quieter watercolor body between them.
Pressure atmosphere
Working
- Intent
- Communicate purposeful tool activity without alarm.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Sustained directional pressure with brighter active edges.
Effort rises through chroma, wall contact, and two long current waves—not through a faster frame rate.
Pressure atmosphere
Magical flare
- Intent
- Reserve delight for discovery, completion, or wonder.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
A rare cyan-violet crest blooms and returns to air.
10.15 supplies the saturation vocabulary, but it appears in one bounded liquid crescendo and never becomes the resting state.
10.11 · behavior matrix
Chromatic echo
6 expressive states
The everyday edge system: two close orbits separated by color and time, leaving maximum air for occasional behavior.
Chromatic echo
Idle
- Intent
- Present and available without asking for attention.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Pale edge breath; almost no interior event.
10.11 becomes the baseline: continuous low-contrast wall presence, lighter color, and an open center.
Chromatic echo
Listening
- Intent
- Receive information by pulling attention inward.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Edges inhale; pigment gathers toward a deeper center.
The color field moves inward once while an opposed-crescent sprite gathers into a small center well and releases.
Chromatic echo
Thinking
- Intent
- Show an internal model forming, traversing, and resolving.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
One temporary latitude crosses a cooler, denser field.
A full-orb crossing is allowed only as a temporary cognitive flourish; it stays long enough to read, then clears.
Chromatic echo
Talking
- Intent
- Externalize language as paced phrases, not an equalizer.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Three measured phrases pulse through halo and stitches.
Three unequal events separate consonant-like stitches from the quieter watercolor body between them.
Chromatic echo
Working
- Intent
- Communicate purposeful tool activity without alarm.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Sustained directional pressure with brighter active edges.
Effort rises through chroma, wall contact, and two long current waves—not through a faster frame rate.
Chromatic echo
Magical flare
- Intent
- Reserve delight for discovery, completion, or wonder.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
A rare cyan-violet crest blooms and returns to air.
10.15 supplies the saturation vocabulary, but it appears in one bounded liquid crescendo and never becomes the resting state.
10.14 · behavior matrix
Quiet architecture
6 expressive states
The complete low-contrast system. Halo, latitude, and pressure are available, but only arrive together when a state asks for them.
Quiet architecture
Idle
- Intent
- Present and available without asking for attention.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Pale edge breath; almost no interior event.
10.11 becomes the baseline: continuous low-contrast wall presence, lighter color, and an open center.
Quiet architecture
Listening
- Intent
- Receive information by pulling attention inward.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Edges inhale; pigment gathers toward a deeper center.
The color field moves inward once while an opposed-crescent sprite gathers into a small center well and releases.
Quiet architecture
Thinking
- Intent
- Show an internal model forming, traversing, and resolving.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
One temporary latitude crosses a cooler, denser field.
A full-orb crossing is allowed only as a temporary cognitive flourish; it stays long enough to read, then clears.
Quiet architecture
Talking
- Intent
- Externalize language as paced phrases, not an equalizer.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Three measured phrases pulse through halo and stitches.
Three unequal events separate consonant-like stitches from the quieter watercolor body between them.
Quiet architecture
Working
- Intent
- Communicate purposeful tool activity without alarm.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
Sustained directional pressure with brighter active edges.
Effort rises through chroma, wall contact, and two long current waves—not through a faster frame rate.
Quiet architecture
Magical flare
- Intent
- Reserve delight for discovery, completion, or wonder.
- Clock
- 48 frames · 8 fps
A rare cyan-violet crest blooms and returns to air.
10.15 supplies the saturation vocabulary, but it appears in one bounded liquid crescendo and never becomes the resting state.