{
  "$schema": "https://hyperframes.heygen.com/schema/registry-item.json",
  "name": "ordered-dither-pass",
  "type": "hyperframes:component",
  "title": "Ordered Dither Pass",
  "description": "Bayer-matrix ordered dithering quantizes a slotted scene (rasterized once at mount): the image emerges from pure 2-tone noise to clean, or dissolves the reverse. Stateless per frame, never error diffusion.",
  "tags": ["motion-primitive", "experiment", "texture", "dither", "transition", "quantize"],
  "jobs": ["reveal", "bridge"],
  "family": "effects",
  "profile": "texture",
  "evidence": "Wave M M2: Codrops 'Building a Real-Time Dithering Shader' (Niccolo Fanton, 2025-06-04), the ordered-not-error-diffusion pass from the wild scout",
  "syncPoints": [
    {
      "id": "ramp",
      "phase": "in",
      "offset": 0.4
    }
  ],
  "files": [
    {
      "path": "ordered-dither-pass.html",
      "target": "compositions/components/ordered-dither-pass.html",
      "type": "hyperframes:snippet"
    }
  ],
  "variables": [
    {
      "id": "matrix",
      "type": "enum",
      "role": "style",
      "label": "Matrix",
      "description": "Bayer matrix size: 2 is the coarsest crosshatch, 8 the smoothest ordered grain.",
      "default": "4",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "2",
          "label": "2 x 2"
        },
        {
          "value": "4",
          "label": "4 x 4"
        },
        {
          "value": "8",
          "label": "8 x 8"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "direction",
      "type": "enum",
      "role": "timing",
      "label": "Direction",
      "description": "in resolves noise to clean; out dissolves clean to noise and holds it.",
      "default": "in",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "in",
          "label": "Noise to clean"
        },
        {
          "value": "out",
          "label": "Clean to noise"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "levels",
      "type": "number",
      "role": "style",
      "label": "Levels",
      "description": "Quantization levels per color channel during the dithered phase.",
      "default": 2,
      "min": 2,
      "max": 6,
      "step": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "accent",
      "type": "enum",
      "role": "style",
      "label": "Accent",
      "description": "Light tone of the 2-tone noise phase: 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 final state holds until the frame cuts.",
      "default": "none",
      "options": [
        {
          "value": "none",
          "label": "None"
        },
        {
          "value": "fade",
          "label": "Fade"
        },
        {
          "value": "up",
          "label": "Up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}