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A Bestiary of Vanishings

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A Bestiary of Vanishings

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Population waiting

Simulation

Render

Agents

Uptake ?Food taken from the local field. Drop ?Chemoattractant deposited each step. Burn ?Reserve cost paid to stay alive. Birth ?Reserve needed to split into children. Speed ?Base step length per frame in UV space.

Steering

Food pull ?Strength of attraction toward food. Crowding ?Penalty for cells above ideal density. Crowd curve ?Exponent for above-ideal density penalty. Crowd blur ?Neighborhood radius for sensing agents. Ideal dens ?Preferred occupied-but-not-crowded level. Min speed ?Minimum fraction of a step taken by living agents.

Field

Decay ?Fraction retained after diffusion. Steps ?Simulation updates per rendered frame. Food max ?Maximum value of the slime food field. This value maps to maximum film thickness. Oat food ?Food supplied by each oat attractor. Oat supply ?Shared oat uptake budget per local crowd each tick. Ration oats

Population

Control population Target ?Closed-loop target for live agents. Lambda ?How quickly log population error should decay. Supply gain ?Log-space oat supply gain applied to growth-rate error. Supply min ?Lowest oat supply the controller may command. Supply max ?Highest oat supply the controller may command. Secondary actuator

Surface

Spatial ?Blur radius for the bump map. Temporal ?Blend with prior rendered field. Height ?Heightmap scale used by the slime bump map. Bump ?Strength of the slime bump perturbation. Iridescence ?Strength of the nacre thin-film color shift. Body color ?Base body color underneath the nacre film. Min film ?Minimum thin-film thickness when height-following mode is enabled. Max film ?Maximum thin-film thickness for the nacre color bands. Film curve ?Nonlinearity mapping local slime amount to film thickness. Lower rises slower; higher saturates faster. Film follows slime height Gold wafer film Gold wafer body Gold fade ?Low-end peak-food range for the gold fade-in. At 1%, it eases from 0% to 1%, then stays fully on. Roughness ?Surface roughness for the gold body material. Higher values soften reflections. Reflectivity ?Reflection strength for the gold body material. Gold base ?Base color for the gold-wafer body material under the thin-film reflections. Brightness ?Intensity of the white icosahedron light rig. Extra lights

Environment

Environment Sky drift ?Animation speed for the procedural storm sky. Mirror tint ?Color blended into the Reflector lake tint. Tint strength ?Blend amount from neutral mirror response to the selected lake tint. Mirror lake

Glass

Glass shading Glass ?Blend from legacy slime-only shading to environment glass under the slime. Glass bend ?Static normal-dependent bend for the environment sample. Glass split ?Chromatic separation for bent glass samples. Glass rim ?Fresnel edge strength for glass tint and highlights. Glass tint ?Rim tint used only when glass rim strength is above zero.

Story Labels

Story boxes Tail length ?Screen-space distance from each oat to its story textbox. Tail opacity ?Opacity shared by the story textbox border and tail line. Corner round ?Corner radius for story textboxes. Edge feather ?Soft outer feather around story textboxes. Blur radius ?Backdrop blur radius for story textboxes. Tint color ?Color of the softly feathered story textbox blur. Tint strength ?Opacity of the story textbox tint; the blur stays feathered at zero border opacity. Story trigger ?Local slime amount needed before an oat starts its story textbox animation.

Visibility

Time limit Oat glow Agent dots Mesh outline Wireframe

Debug

Seam stitching Island masking Heading rotation Optical zoom Stats readback Debug view

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