the story runs

17 runs · pick one
About thirty scenes are written before the first picture is drawn. Each scene renders as one still; a cursor divides what has been shown from what has not. Shown scenes are pinned — the pictures were seen, and the captioner's record of what was in them is append-only. Everything ahead stays rewritable, including the ending, and it is rewritten from where the eyes went. Open a run to watch it, then press esc for the scene-by-scene notes: what each picture turned out to be, what was looked at, and which scenes the looking moved.
20261015-183529 a reading
Wanting to access the unconscious
7 of 30 scenes shown · 8 frames · 1 revision
20261014-213855
Missing your dog
3 of 30 scenes shown · 4 frames · 0 revisions
20260930-222202
Finding a new home
9 of 30 scenes shown · 10 frames · 1 revision
20260930-213203
Letting go of the ant farm windmill
8 of 30 scenes shown · 9 frames · 2 revisions
20260930-144749
Living on alien planets
8 of 30 scenes shown · 9 frames · 2 revisions
20260929-155946
time travel
12 of 30 scenes shown · 13 frames · 3 revisions
20260929-154501
robot falling in love
12 of 30 scenes shown · 13 frames · 3 revisions
20260929-010302
New religion
6 of 30 scenes shown · 7 frames · 1 revision
20260929-004955
AI recursively improves and destroys humans
29 of 30 scenes shown · 30 frames · 7 revisions
20260929-004121
Missing home
22 of 30 scenes shown · 23 frames · 5 revisions
20260929-003111
party
2 of 30 scenes shown · 3 frames · 0 revisions
20260928-185243
party
1 of 30 scenes shown · 2 frames · 0 revisions
20260926-202320
party
1 of 30 scenes shown · 2 frames · 0 revisions
20260926-195646
party
4 of 30 scenes shown · 5 frames · 1 revision
20260926-194120
Two people who have known each other a long time are at the edge of a cold lake at dusk. One of them is leaving in the morning. Neither has said so out loud.
19 of 30 scenes shown · 20 frames · 4 revisions
20260924-164303
Two people who have known each other a long time are at the edge of a cold lake at dusk. One of them is leaving in the morning. Neither has said so out loud.
6 of 30 scenes shown · 7 frames · 1 revision
20260924-153420
Two people who have known each other a long time are at the edge of a cold lake at dusk. One of them is leaving in the morning. Neither has said so out loud.
20 of 30 scenes shown · 21 frames · 5 revisions
9 older runs from the beat engine are not here: they logged a different shape and have their own reader (viz_reader.py). 20260923-225903, 20260923-222038, 20260922-174354, 20260920-230953, 20260920-225448, 20260920-225347, 20260920-225217, 20260920-201215, 20260920-200912