Museum label completeness: document A (react), P (pterodactyl), click-to-fire in the keyboard help; describe the full cutout cast (cubs, songbirds, pterodactyl) + paper-grain style

cda7b3e2d76998fcf5daeaa143dc2a0083237721 · 2026-09-01 19:28:05 -0700 · Steve Abrams

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Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 1 19:28:05 2026 -0700

    Museum label completeness: document A (react), P (pterodactyl), click-to-fire in the keyboard help; describe the full cutout cast (cubs, songbirds, pterodactyl) + paper-grain style
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     <p><strong>The motion is composed, not measured.</strong> The choreography is an <em>authored visual cadence</em> written into the drawing loop itself — it is deliberately <em>not</em> audio analysis and does not react to the waveform. Set the visual tempo to whatever feels right against the night's playing; the two rhythms — heard and drawn — keep company without one driving the other. <em>(Flip “React to Music” and that changes on purpose: the lanterns, fireflies, and dancers then bloom to a live analysis of the streaming audio.)</em></p>
     <p><strong>The recordings are not copied or re-hosted here.</strong> They are community tapes made available through the Grateful Dead collection at the Internet Archive; playback is user-initiated and every set links back to its source item on archive.org.</p>
     <p>The <strong>original visual language</strong> reduces each dancer to a weighted silhouette: couples pivot in shared arcs, a linked circle turns about the smokestack, soloists trail scarves, and musicians appear only as abstract shadow-forms — a communal, exploratory spirit rendered without any borrowed logo, emblem, or album art.</p>
-    <p>On the shore, four creatures each carry a distinct loop with believable weight — a <strong>trotting fox</strong>, a <strong>slow-stepping heron</strong>, a <strong>squash-and-stretch rabbit</strong>, and a <strong>bear conducting fireflies</strong>. Palette <em>and</em> choreography change across the three chapters as the boat travels from dusk (Departure) through moonrise (Moon Bend) into sunrise (Dawn Landing).</p>
+    <p>On the shore, a cast of creatures each carry a distinct weighted loop — a <strong>trotting fox</strong>, a <strong>slow-stepping heron</strong>, a <strong>squash-and-stretch rabbit</strong>, a <strong>bear conducting fireflies</strong> with two <strong>dancing cubs</strong>, and <strong>songbirds</strong> whose note-bubbles pop to the beat; now and then a <strong>pterodactyl</strong> glides across. The whole cast is drawn as flat, outlined paper-cutout figures over a construction-paper grain. Palette <em>and</em> choreography change across the three chapters as the boat travels from dusk (Departure) through moonrise (Moon Bend) into sunrise (Dawn Landing).</p>
     <div class="keys">
       <div><b>Space</b> pause / play</div>
       <div><b>R</b> restart the journey</div>
       <div><b>M</b> reduced motion</div>
       <div><b>T</b> motion trails</div>
+      <div><b>A</b> react to the music</div>
+      <div><b>P</b> pterodactyl fly-over</div>
+      <div><b>Click</b> launch a firework</div>
       <div><b>1&nbsp;2&nbsp;3</b> wide · deck · overhead</div>
       <div><b>← →</b> previous / next chapter</div>
       <div><b>L</b> this museum label</div>

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