# Current film — the cellular atlas

The 21-second homepage loop contains six scientific views: an annotated FIB-SEM scan, a wider two-cell reconstruction, living-cell dynamics, a centered whole IgG, labelled cellular organelles and interior electron-microscopy sections. It replaces the opening surface close-up that resembled a shoreline after grading. The selected source passages include their original scientific annotations; responsive cropping can exclude some of these, so sharp corner captions carry the scientific context outside the background blur. These captions describe reference footage and do not present Proteus experimental results.

The folded blue optical treatment, source-derived bloom and original grain remain. Cell-reconstruction highlights are exposed more conservatively to retain internal structure. The red T cell receives 55% red / 25% green / 20% blue monochrome weighting before the blue grade, preserving its separation from the background. See [the optical processing](../../../docs/film/capable-optical-followup.md). No human footage is added.

Homepage and Careers display a constant 5px background blur, increasing to 55px with scroll. Reduced motion keeps the 5px blur on a static poster. Typography, captions and navigation remain sharp. The Careers film itself is unchanged.

## Current footage credits and rights

- **Cell contact:** Ritter et al. / Science / HHMI Janelia Research Campus, [High-Powered Microscopes Capture Cancer Cells in Action](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI__4nVhz90). [Scientific context](https://www.janelia.org/news/high-powered-microscopes-capture-cancer-cells-in-action). Source passages 24–29.04s at 1.2×, 12–15.6s at 1×, 98.2–103.04s at 1.1× and 41.2–45.16s at 1.1×, with an 23.3–24s loop return. These show FIB-SEM reconstructions and scan sections of a cytotoxic T cell and a cancer cell, not a live killing sequence. Reframed, muted and recoloured. Commercial promotional and modification permission from HHMI Janelia / the underlying rights holder remains to be obtained.
- **Living-cell dynamics:** T. Liu et al. / Science 2018 / HHMI, [New Microscope Captures Detailed 3-D Movies of Cells Deep Within Living Systems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY_v6G_ZLzE). Continuous 490–495.76s passage at 1.6×, with linear temporal frame blending. The desktop master keeps the full source frame instead of removing the measurement-label strip. Commercial promotional/editing permission remains to be obtained. Measured cellular dynamics illustrate biology, not a Proteus drug effect.
- **Whole IgG:** original Three.js film from [RCSB PDB 1IGT](https://www.rcsb.org/structure/1IGT), using [CC0 archive coordinates](https://www.rcsb.org/pages/policies). Complete native assembly and original centered camera are unchanged. Public reference antibody, not a proprietary Proteus sequence.
- **Careers:** inherited website asset, edited into a 6.9-second film. Underlying constituent footage creators and rights remain unverified. No new clearance is claimed.

Current source/output hashes and exact shot intervals are in [film-sources.json](./film-sources.json). Full source videos remain outside the website bundle. No Capable footage or texture is bundled.

## Reproduction

Run scripts/render-neo-film.mjs with NEO_FFMPEG pointing to a local ffmpeg binary and NEO_SOURCE_DIR to the source folder recorded in the manifest. It renders desktop 1600×900 and portrait 720×1280 MP4s and posters. The shot list and caption timing share one definition in src/data/hero-film-shots.json. Careers uses scripts/render-neo-careers-film.mjs and the same optical pipeline. All films are silent H.264/yuv420p at 30 fps with fast-start. The constant blur is applied by the shared HeroFilm component and stylesheet.

## Historical edit record (superseded)

# Current optical treatment — selected candidate C, 2026-09-05

The motion recut below is unchanged. All three exports now use a high-blue carrier with genuinely folded shadow/midtone colour, signed local contrast and two-scale source-derived light. This replaces the former nearly monotonic navy-to-ice grade. Pale cores are retained; no universal edge-detection overlay or global highlight inversion is applied. Exact processing, observed reference timestamps and inference limits: [capable-optical-followup.md](../../../docs/film/capable-optical-followup.md). Current SHA-256 values: [film-sources.json](./film-sources.json). Footage rights and native-coordinate provenance remain as recorded below.

# Proteus film — human, cellular and molecular motion recut

Current local review version: 2026-09-05. This supersedes the earlier hardware-heavy edits below. The main film is a materially new sequence: a researcher making marks at a blackboard, a hand thinking through an equation, newly sourced living cells changing shape, and a central complete IgG with a camera push-in, continuous turn and moving key light. No server, broad white lab, old immune-cell or FIB-SEM passages remain in the main cut. External people and experiments illustrate the story; they are not Proteus staff or results.

## Current credits and rights

- **Human mathematics:** ANU TV / Australian National University, [Why do mathematicians still use blackboards?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi0cxiJ17tI), marked [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). New researcher/hand excerpts, portrait reframing, speed change, monochrome indigo grade, highlight bloom, grain and montage. Attribution retained; no endorsement implied. Identifiable researcher footage is now included, unlike the previous diagram-only cut.
- **New live cellular motion:** T. Liu et al./Science 2018 / HHMI, [New Microscope Captures Detailed 3-D Movies of Cells Deep Within Living Systems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY_v6G_ZLzE). [Scientific context](https://www.hhmi.org/news/new-microscope-captures-detailed-3-d-movies-cells-deep-within-living-systems). Continuous source 490–497.04 seconds at 1.6× shows measured cellular dynamics; it is not a simulated drug effect. Original source has measurement time/scale labels at lower left; reframing excludes those labels, not an attribution or preview watermark. No reuse license appears in retrieved metadata. Commercial promotional/editing permission from HHMI and the underlying rights holder remains to be obtained, as requested for later licensing.
- **Whole IgG:** original Three.js film from [RCSB PDB 1IGT](https://www.rcsb.org/structure/1IGT), [CC0 archive coordinates](https://www.rcsb.org/pages/policies). Complete native assembly and backbone paths unchanged. Public reference antibody, not a proprietary Proteus sequence. Existing film tube thickness retained. The central camera, composition, light sweep and turn are new.
- **Careers:** existing `public/video/careers-hero.mp4`, inherited from the website. Original constituent creators and rights were not established by repository references. User authorized re-editing this asset; this does not establish new distribution rights. The pale animation insert was excluded. Microscopy, moving equipment and the researcher at a molecular display remain.

The exact passages, frame counts, source/output SHA-256 hashes and outstanding permissions are in [film-sources.json](./film-sources.json). Full original source downloads remain outside the website bundle. The current main film uses only the ANU source, the new HHMI source, and our original molecular render. No Capable footage or texture is bundled. Its observed silhouette, optical bloom, chromatic shadow and cross-dissolve treatment informed the direction; exact visual equivalence is not claimed.

## Reproduction

Use `NEO_FFMPEG` for a local ffmpeg executable and `NEO_SOURCE_DIR` for source files named in the manifest. Render the native source with `node scripts/render-neo-molecular-film.mjs --film-only`, then copy its `proteus-source-molecular*.mp4` outputs to `molecular*.mp4` in the source folder. `node scripts/render-neo-film.mjs` renders desktop 1600×900 and portrait 720×1280 with posters. `node scripts/render-neo-careers-film.mjs` uses the **same** grading/bloom pipeline for Careers 1600×900 and its poster. `NEO_OUTPUT_DIR` redirects outputs for review. All films are silent H.264/yuv420p, 30 fps, fast-start.

The current shared physical treatment is selected candidate C: a folded high-blue tonal ramp, signed local contrast, source-highlight halos at two scales, broad cyan/ice spill and fine dither. At the 960×540 experiment scale, local contrast uses a 3.5 px radius, halos use 5 px and 32 px radii, and final diffusion uses 0.65 px. Radii scale with picture height for each export. Exact coefficients and colour stops are in [the optical follow-up](../../../docs/film/capable-optical-followup.md) and the manifest. Pale cores remain pale; no flash plate or exposure pumping is added. Ordinary dissolves, the original deterministic grain tile and shot-specific source levels are retained. Website grain and text treatment are integrated separately.

## Historical edit record (superseded)

# Proteus hero film — milestone 4 reference cut

This is the local review cut requested by the user. The montage has not been cleared for public commercial deployment. The HighRes and two HHMI films need permission from their rights holders before publishing, or replacement with licensed/original material. No footage purchase or external publication has occurred.

The film connects reasoning, computation, parallel experimentation, living biology, cellular interaction and molecular architecture. External people, facilities and experiments are illustrative footage, not Proteus staff, equipment or results. There are no hospital clips. The complete source record, exact URLs and file SHA-256 values are in [film-sources.json](./film-sources.json).

## Source credits and rights

- **Mathematics:** “Why do mathematicians still use blackboards?” — ANU TV / Australian National University, [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi0cxiJ17tI). Marked Creative Commons Attribution on its YouTube source. The current [YouTube licence documentation](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468?hl=en) links to [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted here: short excerpt, reframed, colour graded, diffused, grain added, muted and combined with other films. The attribution and source remain here and in the website footer. No endorsement is implied. No archival photographs or identifiable interview portraits are used.
- **Computing:** MrColo / Pexels, [“Close Up of a CPU”](https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-of-a-cpu-7140928/), under the [Pexels licence](https://www.pexels.com/license/). Despite the source title, the shot shows server equipment, not a CPU die. Reframed, graded and muted.
- **Laboratory automation:** Jagger Media Group’s [“HighRes Biosolutions: Sizzle Reel”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEQ7ImYaPJQ). Reference use in this local edit; permission required for edited commercial website/background use. Contact Jagger Media Group and confirm the client/footage rights with HighRes. Physical equipment branding is not an overlay watermark. No stock-preview watermark has been removed.
- **Living biology:** T. Liu et al./Science 2018, via Howard Hughes Medical Institute, [“Immune Cell Migration in the Zebrafish Inner Ear”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz0VlUVjYfI). [Scientific context](https://www.hhmi.org/news/new-microscope-captures-detailed-3-d-movies-cells-deep-within-living-systems). Actual volumetric microscopy in a zebrafish embryo. It does not show human brain activity, a Proteus experiment, or drug efficacy. Permission required for commercial promotional use and modified colour treatment.
- **Cellular interface:** Ritter et al./Science, via HHMI Janelia Research Campus, [“High-Powered Microscopes Capture Cancer Cells in Action”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI__4nVhz90). [Scientific context](https://www.janelia.org/news/high-powered-microscopes-capture-cancer-cells-in-action). Camera movement over a real FIB-SEM reconstruction of a cytotoxic T cell and a cancer cell. This excerpt is not a live killing time-lapse. Permission required for commercial promotional use and modified colour treatment.
- **Molecular architecture:** original Three.js render of native full IgG from PDB 1IGT, chains A/C light and B/D heavy. RCSB archive coordinates are CC0. Structure: Harris, Larson, Hasel and McPherson, [Biochemistry 36:1581–1597 (1997)](https://doi.org/10.1021/bi962514+). [RCSB data policy](https://www.rcsb.org/pages/policies). This is a public reference structure, not a Proteus molecule. The film and interactive explorer use continuous backbone tubes from the deposited coordinates. The movie shows the native full IgG; variable-domain exchanges are separate illustrative interactions. See [structure provenance](../../structures/neo/README.md).

## Exact edit

All frame counts are at 30 fps. Adjacent shots overlap by 20 frames (0.6667 seconds). There is no audio.

| Shot | Source time | Output frames | Speed | Treatment / purpose |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mathematical research | 150–152.72 s | 102 | 0.8× | Research diagrams; crop 1700×956 at 180,100 |
| Computing | 2–3.76 s | 66 | 0.8× | Server equipment |
| Automated work cell | 13–14.5 s | 100 | 0.45× | One continuous take; excludes the source reel's two earlier camera cuts |
| Parallel pipetting | 33.25–34.25 s | 75 | 0.4× | Real parallel liquid handling |
| Living cellular environment | 53.5–56.26 s | 92 | 0.9× | Zebrafish inner-ear volumetric microscopy |
| Cellular interface | 0–2.76 s | 92 | 0.9× | FIB-SEM-derived T cell / cancer cell reconstruction |
| Cellular architecture | 54.5–56.75 s | 75 | 0.9× | Second view of the measured reconstruction |
| Molecular architecture | 0.5–3.7667 s | 98 | 1× | Original native full IgG; separate portrait camera with margin for phone cropping |
| Loop return | 149.4167–150 s | 22 | 35/44× | Continuous return to opening source time; starts after an earlier source cut |

Output: **562 frames / 18.7333 seconds**. Dissolve centres: **3.0667, 4.6, 7.2667, 9.1, 11.5, 13.9, 15.7333, 18.3333 seconds**. Slow motion repeats source frames; it does not interpolate or fabricate laboratory action. The mathematics adaptation and attribution are retained.

## Optical treatment and reproduction

This reconstruction follows the frame-level analysis in [capable-hero-frame-analysis.md](../../../docs/film/capable-hero-frame-analysis.md). The rejected optical-burn generator has been removed.

The MP4 contains fixed source-specific exposure, source-colour removal, a saturated blue/periwinkle/cyan/ice tonal map, image-highlight bloom (14 px desktop / 10 px portrait, 16% screen contribution), 2.2 px desktop / 1.5 px portrait diffusion, and very fine compression dither. PCHIP interpolation bounds the colour curve. Ordinary 20-frame cross-dissolves retain both scenes during transitions. There is no animated exposure gain, screen-wide flash plate, or three-frame shutter stack.

The website adds an original neutral 256×256 grain tile at 40% opacity with overlay blending and stepped translations. This reproduces the reference's separate grain layer while keeping the text above it. The tile is generated deterministically by the renderer, not copied from Capable. Grain stops offscreen and under reduced motion. Existing scroll blur and the bottom blue gradient remain.

Desktop: 1600×900. Mobile: 720×1280 with individual crops. The portrait molecular source is scaled to 540×960 within that frame so the complete IgG remains visible at 390×844. H.264, square pixels, silent, fast-start MP4. Posters are opening frames.

Download original source files outside the website bundle, using the filenames in film-sources.json. Run:

```sh
NEO_FFMPEG=/path/to/ffmpeg NEO_SOURCE_DIR=/path/to/sources NEO_OUTPUT_DIR=/path/to/review node scripts/render-neo-film.mjs
```

The renderer needs Node and ffmpeg; NumPy is no longer needed for production rendering. Optional NEO_VARIANT=desktop or NEO_VARIANT=mobile renders only one format. The script also produces both selected posters and film-grain.png. No Capable footage or texture is bundled in the website. Source licence and commercial-clearance requirements above remain unchanged.

### Physical-film audit follow-up — 2026-09-05

The local review cut is now 521 frames / 17.3667 seconds at 30 fps. The repeated first T-cell surface view was removed; one continuous cell-contact passage (source 54.5–57.38s at 0.9×) leads into the complete native 1IGT assembly. Microscopy was cropped to 1440×900 at source x240/y100 before output framing, excluding the top measurement timestamp and unused side margins. No attribution or licence watermark was erased. Colour, highlight bloom and framing were adapted; the original source and rights records remain applicable.

The original whole-IgG film now uses the same experimental backbone meshes with an additional 0.34 Å tube-normal offset (approximate radius 0.86 Å) for visible cross-sections, directional light and dedicated desktop/portrait cameras. Neither backbone paths nor assembly composition changed. This is a native public reference antibody, not a proprietary Proteus sequence. Reproduction and exact source/output frame intervals: `film-sources.json` and `docs/film/physical-film-audit-followup.md`.

HighRes/Jagger and both HHMI source-film permissions are still required before commercial publication. This edit does not clear those rights.