10 animation lab
This Videos workspace is the Animation Lab engine. In the workspace switcher and in the page heading the shipped label is Generator Lab. Auto Builder lists the same engine as Animation Lab (WebView2). CLI/API module id is Animation Lab. This page covers that one workspace under both names.
Heading on the left pane: Generator Lab
Subtitle: “Create deterministic animation projects across all 16 visual families. Playback starts automatically; change families, presets, and controls freely while it runs.”
Generator Lab with a running preview.
Deterministic multi-engine families (WebGL, Canvas2D, SVG, React/DOM, Three.js, and hybrids), including all 32 2D fractal formulas and 39 raymarch objects from the source lab. The Synthetic Spectrum family is a generated visual and does not read audio. Audio input is intentionally absent.
Live preview starts automatically, preserves timeline position as controls change, and keeps family and builder controls available during playback.
Heading Source & render.
| Control | Role |
|---|---|
| Animation family | Choose a family to narrow the result. |
| Render final output | Evaluates the same project at selected width, height, FPS, and frame count, then atomically publishes the Resources video format and any retained PNG sequence. Live playback resumes after. |
| Cancel render | Stop the job. |
Heading Quick tools. Subtitle: “Choose a live preset, then generate or reshape the project. Locks keep chosen values stable.”
| Control | Role |
|---|---|
| Live preset | Starting recipe for the current family. |
| Generate any | New seeded project; may select any of the 16 families. |
| Generate this family | Keep the current family. |
| Mutate / Intensify / Simplify | Same bundled deterministic engine as final rendering. |
| Next palette / Next motion / Harmonize | Palette/motion/harmony steps. |
| Seed | Numeric seed. |
| Lock seed | On: same selections repeat. Off: repeated clicks produce fresh variants. |
| New seed | Roll a new seed. |
| Mutation | Strength. |
A control’s Lock protects it from builder operations.
Generator Lab motion and creative controls.
Heading Motion & view. Subtitle: “The most-used playback, rotation, and zoom controls stay visible in both visual workspaces.”
Same shared sliders as Psychedelia / Shader Lab. Numeric controls can be automated with once, loop, or ping-pong playback, easing, cycles, and phase.
Heading Composition & color. Subtitle: “Generator-specific framing, layering, and palette controls. Expand only the group you need.”
Conditional controls appear only when their controlling mode makes them relevant.
Heading Source controls. Family-native parameters. Reset family restores the current family’s visual and motion parameters to baseline without changing family, seed, exact-output, or post effects.
Reset all to baseline restores the current Generator Lab family’s visual and motion parameters to their defined baseline without changing the family, seed, exact-output settings, or post effects.
Same Exact output and Color studio & post effects cards described in Videos. The shared visual post stack provides strobe, trails, scanlines, chromatic split, vignette, distortions, color treatments, event markers, and the rest of the 39-effect catalog.
Add effect to add; browsing never changes the stack.
When Auto Builder Creation engine is Animation Lab (WebView2), jobs use this same workspace contract. fractalflow procedural module ids and /v1/procedural/animation/* talk to Animation Lab. Results still appear in Video library like any other procedural publish.
Continue: Shader Lab.
Generator Lab Exact output settings.