> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: /llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Recreating something you saw > Transcribe motion, iterate with absolute targets, distill the constants — and know where the text-only ceiling is. [Iterating](/prompting/overview.md#iterate-toward-the-look) covered the correction loop in general. This page is its hardest test: matching a specific reference you watched, rather than a look you're inventing. From text alone, you can reach roughly 90% of a reference. That takes a specific workflow, and it takes knowing where the ceiling is. Both are below. > [!NOTE] > > The percentages on this page are observed results from this guide's own recreation builds, judged frame against frame. Treat them as the shape of the curve, not a guarantee. ## Transcribe motion, not just composition Watch the reference frame by frame. Write down: * the exact duration * the camera's path * what each element does, with timestamps * how entrances overlap * which layers are blurred * sampled colors A prompt built this way one-shots about 75% of the target. Structure and the motion arc land. Rendering calibration doesn't. ## Iterate with absolute targets Compare your render against the reference frame by frame. Then correct one axis at a time, freezing everything that already matches. State each correction as an absolute value, not a relative nudge: * **Avoid:** `make dots 2x finer` * **Instead:** `dot radius = 25% of row spacing` Relative corrections pendulum — too big, then too small, then too big again. Expect a handful of rounds to converge. ## Distill the converged values back into the prompt Iteration is a search. The constants it finds are reusable. A prompt carrying them one-shots \~80–90% of the converged quality on a fresh build. The discrete facts transfer losslessly: timings, counts, hexes, ratios, camera arcs. Continuous qualities still vary by a calibration note or two, like glow prominence or how the framing feels. The converged composition file itself is the pixel-exact artifact. Renders are deterministic, so re-rendering that file reproduces the result. Here is a distilled spec that one-shots a broadcast-style animated globe: > [accordion] Worked example: the hologram globe (full distilled spec) > > > 1.8-second 1920x1080 video, Three.js via the adapter (seek-driven, no rAF). One continuous shot. Every element is still moving on the final frame. > > > > **FIELD** > > > > * blue-violet background, linear #2a24a8 → #12105e top-to-bottom, with a soft radial lift at center > > * faint blurred vertical cyan light-streaks (#5ee0e8 at \~10% opacity, \~340px spacing) drifting 70px left across the piece > > * deep corner vignette > > * soft-light film grain at \~6% (seeded noise) > > > > **GLOBE** > > > > * royal-blue sphere (#4348f2), lit from upper-left with a 0.58 ambient floor > > * a broad subtle satin band (#6470ff, very wide falloff, \~30% mix) sweeping the upper curve > > * a strong cyan rim-light line (#5ee8f0) tracing only the top edge > > * continents in TWO layers: > > * (a) a heavily-blurred darker-blue silhouette (#3439c2, 80% opacity) just under the surface, reading as a soft shadow shape > > * (b) a dot-matrix just above the surface on an equal-area grid (0.9° latitude rows, longitude step widening with latitude) > > * dot radius = 24–28% of row spacing — clear blue gaps between dots — growing slightly toward the equator, 85% dot opacity > > * two color populations: cyan-aqua #5ee0e8 north, spring-green #7ce97a from latitude \~32° southward, with seeded ±30% per-dot brightness variance > > * dots dimmed to 40% in the view-space lower-right shadow zone > > * continents read as distinct dotted landmasses covering \~30–35% of the visible hemisphere, with royal-blue ocean dominating the rest > > > > **CAMERA** > > > > * open EXTREMELY close: the sphere's curve fills the entire frame, horizon exiting the upper corners > > * then one continuous pull-back + crane (fov 52°→40°) > > * end with the dome filling the lower half edge-to-edge, its silhouette touching both frame edges, horizon at \~45% > > * ease power1.inOut computed over a 2.0s window while rendering 1.8s, so the move never settles on-screen > > * the globe rotates 28° about its vertical axis, linear, continents drifting right-to-left, never stopping > > > > **ORBS** — 12 across three depth planes, world-anchored on the upper hemisphere so stems stay vertical > > > > * popping at staggered starts 0.45s→1.15s (0.06–0.13s apart) > > * each rising 0.44–0.56s with back.out overshoot (vary 1.7–2.6 per orb), then bobbing ±8px on phase-offset sines forever > > * **5 midground** (\~90–110px at end framing): soft mint body #a7ecc4, a darker-green under-shade #3f9b5e at lower-left, a pale rim #d6ffe8 top-right, no white core > > * each wrapped in a soft additive bloom sprite \~3.5x its diameter, whose texture is HOLLOW-centered, peaking \~35% just outside the orb edge. A bright-cored additive glow over the opaque orb blows the mint to lime. > > * plus a thin soft halo ring \~4.2x radius at 60% opacity, always subtler than the orb itself, with a slow 5% scale pulse > > * **4 background** — \~30px, sharp, tighter bloom > > * **3 foreground near-lens bokeh** — \~160–190px, dense mint radial-gradient sprites riding the camera at center-left / lower-center / upper-right, \~70% opacity, drifting ±30px laterally, no stems > > * **stems** — 2–3px additive cyan cylinders fading to transparent at the surface > > * tag canvas-generated sprite textures sRGB, or the mints wash out pale > > > > **CAPTION** — "Across 82 Countries" > > > > * Inter 300, 34px, 0.06em tracking, white at 90%, top-center 12% from the top > > * left-to-right per-letter fade starting t=1.0s, completing \~1.45s > > * then a slow 6px upward drift, still easing at the final frame > > > > No audio. > >