Glyph Landing — une image, un hero vidéo ASCII/trame en direct

Glyph landing page

One subject → one page. The subject loops (a Kling clip pinned so its last frame is its first); the shader draws it as glyphs over an animated backdrop. On the page:

• Hero: cursor X splits photo ← | → glyphs; cursor Y sets the grid size; a ring and crosshair follow the cursor. The title — one word split in two — is drawn by the shader as the inverse of a blurred backdrop. Dense line art, some of it tracking the subject.
• Sections: manifesto (a true fact with a turn), marquee, four specs, a closing CTA over the subject again. Scrolling dissolves the grid into big pixels and back.
• Series: several pages share one engine and a page switcher; each page gets its own palette, background effect, glyph renderer, fonts, line art and copy.

assets/examples/pages/ holds five complete pages that show the range (astronaut on a night sky, a poppy on paper, the 1984 Mac as a blueprint, a cloud with halftone and isobars, jellyfish in neon braille). Read one or two before writing a page; never copy one wholesale — each page is designed fresh for its subject.

What you need

Need	Why	How
A subject	the user's image, or a description to generate one	ask, or take what they gave
FAL_KEY	stills, edits and video	env var on each command (FAL_KEY=… node …); never echo it or write it to a tracked file. Only if the user asks to store it: a gitignored .env.local
Node 18+, ffmpeg, Python 3	generator, packing, masks	node -v, ffmpeg -version, python3 -V; macOS brew install node ffmpeg python

Cost: stills are cheap (~$0.15); each 15 s Kling clip costs noticeably more and often needs one retry — check fal pricing and say so before the first video.

Step 0 — Agree on intent (one short message, then decide)

• The subject. Own image → check it (watermarks: don't remove them — ask for a licensed copy or generate an original instead; a photo of a real person → confirm it's them or they have consent; trademarked products are fine editorially, without logos). No image → you will generate one; propose a subject that suits the user's goal.
• The look. If the user described one, follow it. Otherwise choose all seven decisions in references/looks.md yourself and say what you chose in a sentence or two. If the project already has pages, make the new one differ from each existing page on at least five of the seven.
• Motion. What should move and how much ("lots of motion" vs "calm float"); 15 s by default.
• Copy & framing. Tone, any facts or names the user wants; otherwise a fictional exhibition / publication / event built around the subject (references/copy.md).

Step 1 — Scaffold

python3 <skill>/scripts/new_project.py <project-dir> <id> --name "Name" --title "First/second" [--image path]
cd <project-dir>/tools && npm install

The first call creates the project (site/ with engine.js, base.css, pages.json, index.html; tools/ with the pipeline; .gitignore). Each later call adds a page (site/<id>.html) and registers it in pages.json so every page's switcher shows it.

Step 2 — Prompts → still → review

Write tools/subjects/<id>.json (references/pipeline.md has the checklist; assets/examples/subjects/ the five that worked). Default to a flat pure-black backdrop, the subject right of centre with empty space on the left.

FAL_KEY=… node generate.mjs <id> still      # from the "image" prompt
FAL_KEY=… node generate.mjs <id> edit       # or: the user's image onto a flat backdrop (original kept)

Show tools/<id>.png. Iterate until the user is happy — everything downstream inherits it.

Step 3 — Clip → check → review

FAL_KEY=… node generate.mjs <id> video      # a few minutes; run in the background
node generate.mjs <id> check                # motion numbers + tools/<id>-sheet.png

Read the numbers: under ~3 through the middle means it barely moves — strengthen the wording and regenerate before building. Show the contact sheet. If the user wants different motion, show them the revised prompt before spending again.

Step 4 — Build the packed loop

cd <project-dir> && tools/build_media.sh tools/<id>.png <id> video tools/<id>-motion.mp4
python3 tools/track_blobs.py <id> 3         # optional: paths of glowing / high-contrast parts for tracking overlays

Check a frame of site/media/<id>-loop.mp4: the right half must be a clean white silhouette. Then measure the positions you'll annotate (references/pipeline.md → measuring).

Step 5 — Design the page

Edit site/<id>.html (every EDIT marker), using references/looks.md for decisions, references/shader-recipes.md for the GLSL, and references/copy.md for the wording:

1. :root tokens and the Google Fonts link.
2. The shader: field() (background effect + halo), scene() (glyph renderer, plate, ink colour), photo(), main() (fringing, title inversion, finish). Set stage({ focus, cell, zoom, atlas }).
3. Title words, sizes and placement; spread sentences; the logo/series name.
4. Line work: dense SVG/DOM built in script, animated; tracking elements in onFrame via toScreen().
5. Sections: manifesto, marquee, specs, CTA, footer — with section styling that belongs to this look.
6. Phones: check the @media (max-width:760px) block (title size, CTA size, hide crowded labels).

Step 6 — Preview and verify

cd <project-dir> && python3 -m http.server 5180 -d site     # open http://localhost:5180/<file>

Verify in a browser, not by reading code: the console is clean; the canvas appears; moving the cursor splits and resizes; the title is legible on the photo and glyph sides; overlays sit on the subject; scroll through every section; a wide desktop, a near-square window and a 375 px phone with no horizontal scroll. Hard-reload after edits (the static server caches). references/troubleshooting.md covers what has gone wrong before.

Step 7 — Hand over

Tell the user what you built (subject, motion, the seven look decisions, the copy), anything you couldn't make work, and the knobs they're likely to tweak — fringing constants, plate opacity, grid range, blob strengths, title size — with where each lives. Leave raw Kling clips out of git (.gitignore already does).

Adding another page

Run new_project.py <project-dir> <new-id> --name … again, then Steps 2–6 for that page, choosing a look that differs from the existing pages.