Chapter seven

Looking and time

Where you stand, when you are, and how to find your way back: the views, the camera, the clock, the dice and your history.

Four views`Q` steps through them. `T` turns slowly around the rug.

The rug seen straight from above — **plan**straight down on the rug

The rug seen at an angle, as a standing person would — **lean**a standing person’s look

The rug seen from low down, close to the pile — **low**eye along the pile

The rug seen from its long side — **side**from the long side

Moving the camera

right-drag	Turn around the rug. On a trackpad, hold `⌥` and drag.
`⇧`-drag	Slide the camera sideways or forward. A middle-button drag does the same.
scroll	Come closer or step back. On a trackpad, scroll with two fingers.
`H`	Hide the panel to give the rug more room.
`F`	Only the rug. Press again, or `esc`, to bring everything back.
`M`	The camera films the rug by itself. Turning, sliding, scrolling or a view takes it back.

Left-drag always belongs to your hand, so the camera never moves by accident while you comb.

The camera films`M`, or film in the bottom bar.

Turn on film and the camera moves by itself: the whole rug, in toward the field, low along the pile, a corner and its fringe, down over the motif, the far border.

Its shots run on the weather’s own clock. A 6-second loop holds two of them, 12 seconds three, 20 seconds five and 40 seconds all six, and after one loop the camera is back where it began, so a seamless loop closes on the camera too.

Soft focus keeps each shot’s subject sharp while what lies before and behind it softens. Turn or slide the camera, scroll, or pick a view, and film stops; press M to hand the camera back.

Camera · in the light tab
film	The camera films the rug by itself, or stays where you put it.	films itself · still
close-ups	How near the close shots come.	0–1
soft focus	How far what lies before and behind a shot’s subject falls out of focus. Only while filming.	0–1

Platefilm · a 12-second loop, three shots

Time

The weather is a loop. It runs for a set time, then comes back to exactly where it started.

The clock in the bottom bar shows where you are in the loop, for example 02.6 / 20 s. Choose 6, 12, 20 or 40 seconds under loop in the wind tab; tempo beside it sets how much the weather does inside one loop.

Press space to pause. The weather holds still, but the pile keeps answering your hand, and settles for a moment after you let go. While paused, → steps a tenth of a second forward.

While paused, light and colour changes show at once, but changes to how the pile moves appear only when it moves again: during a stroke, after a mood or the dice, or when you press →.

The diceIn the bottom bar, or `R` `N` `W`.

reroll	The same kind of motif, drawn again from a new seed. Everything else stays, even your marks.
nudge	Moves three to five numbers a little (wind, pile, light, motif size or border), and now and then picks a new seed. Good for finding a nearby variation.
wild	A new rug from a random mood: motif, colours, weave, pile, wind and light all change. The rug’s shape, your words and your marks stay.

Every roll lands in your history, so nothing is lost by trying.

A kolam drawn from the seed pulli: one large diamond of loops — **seed pulli**one kolam

The same kolam kind from the seed maram: six small diamonds — **seed maram**same kind, new seed

The same kolam kind from the seed kaatru: a lattice filling the field — **seed kaatru**and another

History and stars

Each look you settle on appears as a small picture in the bottom-right strip. Click one to go back to it, with your hand’s marks as they were. ⌘ Z and ⌘ ⇧ Z step back and forward through the same list once there are no strokes left to undo.

The strip keeps the last 120 looks. When it fills, the oldest ones without a star make room.

Press S to star a look. Up to 60 starred looks, with their marks, are kept in your browser and are still there the next time you open Woven Wind. Looks without a star last only until you close the page.

Sharing a look

A moment after you change anything, the address in your browser’s address bar is updated to hold the whole setting. Copy it to bookmark a look or send it to someone.

Two things stay on your own computer and do not travel in the address: a picture you dropped in as the cloth, and the marks your hand made.

Opening Woven Wind again without such an address brings back the last look you had.