The old demo argued that a locked frame crops the story. The sharper claim is
what a cut throws away: a move carries the spatial relationship between two
shots, a cross-fade carries none.
Five stages each get their own colour and the halves diverge on how the next
colour arrives -- in place, or by travelling to it. 30-47% of pixels differ,
against 3% for every version where the WITHOUT half moved the content.
That 3% is the trap now documented in the rule: translating the scene and
translating the camera are the same transform, so sliding content past a fixed
frame is not a static comparison, it is the same shot rendered twice.
Embed is cache-busted to -v2; docs images carry immutable year-long cache, so
reusing the filename would serve returning visitors the old render.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live telemetry panel, an isometric deploy pipeline wider than the frame, and
a progressive edge rollout across twelve regions. In each, the rule follows
from the content rather than being applied to it.
Rule 2's demo carries the strongest evidence in the chapter: deleting the
three stages the locked frame never shows and re-rendering leaves that half
identical on all 180 frames.
Rule 3 gains a rule-level distinction the rebuild surfaced — stagger what is
happening, not what is merely present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the generic card/chip/disc subjects with ones where the rule is
unavoidable given the content: a payment sheet over a receipt, a split-flap
departure board, and a render-farm corridor.
Rules 5 and 6 in the grammar list were one-liners that under-said what their
demos prove. Rule 5 now carries the mass claim, the follow-through lag, and
the transforms-only caveat (a counter that overshoots renders a false value).
Rule 6 credits occlusion over blur and prefers one foreground element.
Section intro no longer endorses over-cranking; every movement in an applied
half has to finish "this moves because...".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Learned from a strong example prompt (not reused verbatim — different
subject, same technique): a stop-motion/hand-animated look wants
irregular timing, but true unseeded randomness breaks HyperFrames'
determinism guarantee (same seek must always render the same frame).
The correct pattern is a PRNG seeded once at composition start, stepping
elements between held positions rather than tweening continuously —
distinct from rule 1's continuous ambient idle, which is a different
tool for a different texture.
Kept separate from "The grammar, measured" (rules 1-6, empirically
videoed) since there's no rendered proof for rule 7 yet — the new
section and example are illustrative, not claimed as verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validates 16 more published prompts end-to-end (variants across every
video type, caption styles, overlays with proven alpha, code diff and
highlight, edit verbs against the real attribute map, a generated-avatar
talking-head through embedded-captions, a presented slideshow deck) and
fixes every prompt flaw the builds surfaced. Adds keyword-to-render
grids for the easing, camera, and marker vocabulary; two more worked
visual specs with renders; a measured before/after pair proving the
motion grammar (frozen frames vs all-alive, 211KB vs 2.5MB); before/
after render pairs on editing and generated-artwork pages; and proof
renders on the overview.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five-way review of the section against docs.json, catalog pages, and
skills. Fixes: stale /hyperframes-media skill row (real name /media-use)
plus missing music-to-video and slideshow workflow rows; caption
identity misattributions (keynote/documentary are scene-embedded, stomp
carries no rail); prompts violating the guide's own ambient-idle rule;
grounded keying rationale (u2net_human_seg); broken forward references;
nested-backtick code spans; brand casing and frontmatter dash
consistency throughout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Splits guides/prompting into a Prompt Guide nav group (overview + Fundamentals
+ Making it look good, 11 pages) with a redirect from the old URL. Applies
research-validated upgrades: beat content formula, before/after prompt rewrites
with engine rationale, single-variable iteration moves, absolute-target
calibration, camera/depth/pacing vocabulary, prerequisites gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Vance Ingalls