`films.mjs` now writes into the sibling lumbridge-v4 checkout — the MP4s and
their posters into `apps/web/public/films/`, and a generated `films.ts` beside
the shots manifest, carrying each reel's caption, alt text and running time.
Same shape as `shots.mjs`, including the `FilmId` union that turns a page
naming a deleted reel into a typecheck failure rather than a dead <video>.
`--publish <dir>` puts an existing render in front of the site without
re-shooting it. Twenty-two minutes a reel is long enough that the alternative
would have been `cp`, and a hand-copied artefact is the thing this pipeline
exists to not have. `--frames` refuses to publish at all: a 24-frame stutter is
a rough cut, not something to put on a website by accident.
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`films.mjs` renders time-lapses of the running dist/: a locked camera watching
eighteen hours pass, shadow sweeping the city and the windows coming on as the
computed sun goes down. Two ship — the Financial District and the whole board.
Real-time capture was never on the table and would have been the wrong idea
anyway. SwiftShader draws about three frames a second with no GPU, so a screen
recording is a slideshow; and a sunset takes an hour, which is not a length of
video anybody watches. So it is rendered offline the way films always have been:
set the clock, let the frame settle, expose, advance. The output is smooth 30fps
regardless of what the renderer managed while being photographed.
Two shims in `filmClock()` get that done without a reload per frame, which
matters because a reload is fifteen seconds and would put a 180-frame film at
three quarters of an hour. The skew is a live global read on every `Date` call
rather than baked in at load; and `setInterval(…, 60_000)` is compressed to
120ms, which is the load-bearing half — `main.ts` recomputes the sun on a
once-a-minute wall-clock tick, so a shifted clock otherwise sits unrendered.
Only the 60-second interval is touched, by value.
Both are capture-harness lies told to the page. The deployed bundle has no idea
this file exists.
Not wired into the site. This is the capability and two reels to look at.
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