The theater canvas froze visually between spawn events; long holds like
"Skriver till journalen..." read as stale. Add continuous ambient life
inside the existing rAF loop, derived entirely from the clock (no extra
timers), without inventing progress: motion means the system is alive,
not that work completed.
- Per-node breathing: radius +-10% (about 1px on the hub) plus up to 4%
alpha, on two slow incommensurate clocks offset by each node's own
position/wave phase so the field shimmers organically, not in sync.
- Quiet ripple: every 7s a luminance wave travels hub to rim over 2.6s,
brightening the hairline year rings (+0.18 alpha peak) and edges
(+0.12) it passes. Alpha only: no color change, so it cannot be
mistaken for the sage event pulse.
- Settled mode (result reveals) rests at half breathing amplitude and
gets no ripple; the reveal is a verdict.
- prefers-reduced-motion: ambient scale is zero and the frame stays
frozen as before.
Co-authored-by: Jakob Wennberg <311770904+jakobwennberg-oss@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
