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Symbolic Pastel Abstraction

The Altarpiece

9 breathing pastel rings inside a clipped triangle; 26 motes drift upward as a pulsing light crowns the apex. Homage to symbolic altarpiece diagrams.

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When to use it

Spiritual or meditative hero sections, art/gallery contexts, dark ambient backgrounds needing slow celestial motion.

When not to

Light-background UIs (background hardcoded dark #1d1a24). Contexts where upward particle drift distracts from primary content.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change PASTELS to warm sunset tones, slow breath by setting t*0.5 to t*0.25, and increase mote count from 26 to 40. Theme: dark tokens live in :root, the light variant in :root[data-theme="light"]; ?theme=light or a {type:'forever:theme'} postMessage switches at runtime.

Safe to edit

  • PASTELS color palette (5 colors)
  • mote count (26 in seed loop)
  • breath speed (t*0.5 in sin)
  • apex pulse rate (t*1.6)
  • triangle proportions (baseHalf, apexY)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • ctx.clip() triangle clipping (keeps motes inside triangle)
  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded in both CSS and PAL.deep — must edit both to change
  • No pointer interactivity — purely passive

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