Power-User Systems

Patchbay

A modular-synth patch bay. The jacks are real DOM buttons, focusable, labelled and keyboard-patchable, and only the cables live on a canvas underneath the pointer's reach, because a cable is pure paint: a quadratic Bézier whose control point hangs below the midpoint by a sprung sag. Drag from any jack and a live cable follows the hand. Release near a jack on the opposite bank and it seats with an overshoot-and-settle wobble, elsewhere it retracts. Seated cables carry signal pulses on a bounded phase, grabbing an occupied input picks its cable up to repatch, and resizing the bay shakes every cable, which is follow-through, cheaply.

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Props

What It Demonstrates

Drag
Moving an element by grabbing it, often with momentum when released.
Spring
Motion driven by physics (tension, mass, damping) rather than a set duration.
Follow-through
Parts of an element keep moving and settle slightly after the main motion stops, adding weight.
Loop
An animation that repeats, a set number of times or infinitely.

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