# Event 360 Lab

> The game's key lifecycle events — spawning, growth, the ADAPT roll, offspring, pilot transfer, and death with its two endings — directed as looping scenes in three synced cameras, with the transition craft (fade-to-black, vision clearing, camera descents, cross-cut hand-offs) a future in-game 360 POV will inherit.

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### The beats between the fighting

The [Adaptation 360 Lab](/adaptation-360) art-directs *dealing* a part and the
[Affliction 360 Lab](/affliction-360) *receiving* one. This third rig covers the moments
that make a run feel like a **life**: the lifecycle events. Pick one and it loops
forever — same world, three cameras (🌎 observer dish · 👁 first person · 🪬 the
sphere) — so each beat can be polished in isolation:

| Event | The scene | The craft |
|---|---|---|
| 🐣 Spawn | `hatch` | darkness → **incubation ripples** → the world blooms in (fade + a vision-clearing blur ramp) → the waking scan → first swim |
| 📈 Growth | `surge` | a milestone lands: a ripple from your own body, streamlines, and a momentary **hfov widening** — the dish feels smaller; three milestones, then the molt resets the ladder |
| 🧬 Evolve | `splice` | DNA banks to full → **the splicer's arc sweeps the rim** → the rolled organelle (part + tier) fades onto your body in all three views and *stays there* — up to three parts accumulate before the lineage sheds them |
| 🫧 Offspring | `budding` | the membrane pulse builds → mitosis shake → a daughter splits free (cyan ally, ringed in the CV views) and joins the colony — twice, then the brood disperses |
| 🔁 Pilot switch | `transfer` | a **hard cut through black** (0.35 s out, 0.5 s in) and you are someone else, somewhere else — the floor, the glass and the gyro all agree — then the waking scan |
| 🪦 Death | `the fade` | energy fails in stages (warnings at 50/25) while **color drains and movement falters** → the camera sinks to the agar → **fade to black** → one of two endings |

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### A death has two endings

The FATE control picks how the dark resolves:

- **🫂 The line continues** — the smoothest cut in the lab: from black, the world fades
  back in *from a family member's position* — different floor, different wall geometry,
  new heading — with the waking scan and "the line holds — v3 takes the colony". The
  lineage chip counts the generations as the loop hands life down.
- **🪦 Last of the line** — the dark holds: **"THE DISH RECLAIMS YOU"** over the black,
  with the run's lineage and time, for a full beat. And then — ripples in the dark,
  the fade lifts, and v1 wakes again: the endgame loops into the spawn art, because
  the dish forgets nothing and forgives everything.

### The transition layer

What this rig adds to the 360 design language is **transitions as first-class scene
material**: a stage-wide fade plane driven per tick (it covers all three POVs, so a cut
reads identically wherever you're watching), filter ramps (spawn's blur-to-clarity,
death's desaturation), directed camera writes that *own* the lens during a beat (the
death descent disables the ambient director), and hand-offs that survive the cut — the
world state teleports during black, never on screen. The emote sheet supplies only the
reflexes (the waking scan, the mitosis shake, the failing flinch); everything sustained
is scripted.

### Scaling path

**Shipped (2026-06-12):** the transitions now run inside
[`/petri-dish-evolution`](/petri-dish-evolution)'s 🪬 360 camera, driven by a real
engine event queue — the hatch bloom on spawn, the transfer cut on pilot switches,
the snap-cut succession when a pilot dies with family, and the endgame fade that
holds the dark before the result card. This rig remains where each beat gets
art-directed.

These are exactly the events `/petri-dish-evolution` already fires — spawn, growth
milestones, the ADAPT drawer, reproduction, pilot switching (including the forced switch
on death), and the end screen. When the 360 POV graduates into the game, `EVO`'s events
replace these scripts and the fades, ramps, descents and hand-offs carry over unchanged.
Nothing here touches the game.


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*Source: /event-360*