The Living Collection
A motion layer inside the card engine: Eye Pulse, Geometric Groove and Chromatic Breathing. With Motion on, the cards are laid and make the original quarter-turn, then live with the music for ten seconds, then turn again, in a loop. On white-paper portraits, coloured and black cards that sit on the face take a base opacity between 80% and 100% from the first laid card, then follow the music within that same 80–100% range — each of those cards is tied to one parameter (loudness, bass, low-mid, mid, highs, brightness or the beat). Eyes, nose, mouth, motif cards around the face, and any portrait with a black or coloured ground stay solid. Motion off is a still portrait, identical to a saved PNG.
Motion is off. Portraits are still, identical to a saved PNG.
Live music parameters — each translucent face card follows one of these
Spring is Lantern Radio’s channel at 100.9 — composed live in code, from the clock, so this page aims to play the same current-hour piece as lanternradio.xyz. Audio starts only after you press the button. The test beat is a quiet fallback if you want motion without the radio. Six motion parameters are drawn from a separate seed stream and do not change traits, rarity or the printed genome.