{
  "$schema": "https://hyperframes.heygen.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "ascii-render-pass",
  "type": "hyperframes:component",
  "title": "ASCII Render Pass",
  "description": "A slotted scene renders as live ASCII: a canvas samples the source's luminance grid (rasterized once at mount) and draws glyphs from a density ramp charset; resolution steps coarse to fine as the piece resolves, then holds legible-fine.",
  "tags": ["motion-primitive", "experiment", "texture", "ascii", "quantize"],
  "jobs": ["reveal"],
  "family": "effects",
  "profile": "texture",
  "evidence": "Wave M M1: Codrops 'Efecto: Building Real-Time ASCII and Dithering Effects with WebGL Shaders' (2026-01-04), the coded-motion ASCII wave from the wild scout",
  "syncPoints": [
    {
      "id": "resolve",
      "phase": "in",
      "offset": 1.4
    }
  ],
  "files": [
    {
      "path": "ascii-render-pass.html",
      "target": "compositions/components/ascii-render-pass.html",
      "type": "hyperframes:snippet"
    }
  ],
  "variables": [
    {
      "id": "charset",
      "type": "string",
      "role": "style",
      "label": "Charset",
      "description": "Density ramp, dark to light. A leading space keeps dark cells empty.",
      "default": " .:-=+*#%@"
    },
    {
      "id": "grid",
      "type": "enum",
      "role": "style",
      "label": "Grid",
      "description": "Final cell pitch the resolve lands on.",
      "default": "med",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "coarse",
          "label": "Coarse"
        },
        {
          "value": "med",
          "label": "Medium"
        },
        {
          "value": "fine",
          "label": "Fine"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "resolve_at",
      "type": "number",
      "role": "timing",
      "label": "Resolve at",
      "description": "Seconds from mount start when the coarse-to-fine resolve begins.",
      "default": 1.4,
      "min": 0.6,
      "max": 10,
      "step": 0.1,
      "unit": "s"
    },
    {
      "id": "accent",
      "type": "enum",
      "role": "style",
      "label": "Accent",
      "description": "Glyph ink: green rides --brand, blue rides --accent, violet rides --accent-2.",
      "default": "green",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "green",
          "label": "Green"
        },
        {
          "value": "blue",
          "label": "Blue"
        },
        {
          "value": "violet",
          "label": "Violet"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "exit",
      "type": "enum",
      "role": "timing",
      "label": "Exit",
      "description": "Optional departure. Default none: the fine render holds until the frame cuts.",
      "default": "none",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "none",
          "label": "None"
        },
        {
          "value": "fade",
          "label": "Fade"
        },
        {
          "value": "up",
          "label": "Up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}