Flying Words

On a dark stage 22 nouns are laid out by the golden angle on a flattened elliptical cross-section (radius 82–247) and fly along z at constant speed from −1750 to +800, through the camera plane and past the viewer; phases are spread i/N and two whole cycles loop seamlessly; the life curve [0,1,.5,.2,0] flares up in the first quarter, drops to half in the middle to make room for the foreground, and trails off at the end; words drift outward as they approach (drift .5→1.85) and blur when in your face (u>.86); a static central glow anchors the "end of the tunnel". It is a backdrop-level background layer — the foreground carries the presenter or the title