Spatial Pan Stations

roles served

• Hook (from hook-pan-timeline): a horizontal timeline of evenly-spaced milestones, left-panned beat by beat, each marker getting a spring-popped callout, landing on the present moment (“evolution / milestone walk leading up to us”).
• Problem (from problem-camera-pan-stations): a connected web of pain “stations” linked by hand-drawn leading lines, diagonally panned station to station, ending on a tangled scribble knot (“too many disconnected steps — it’s a mess”).
• Product_Intro (from concept-demo-decode-pan): a two-shot strip bridged by ONE lateral pan — shot 1 holds a static phrase whose accent word 3D-flap-DECODES (the concept lands), then the camera pans across the strip (with background parallax) into shot 2, where a cursor drives a live typing demo. Pairs this pan with cursor-ui-demo‘s focal-locked tracked typing.

duration: 7–10s (union of Hook 8–10s, Problem ~7s, concept-demo ~7s)

shot structure One oversized flat canvas on a solid [bg color]; all stations/markers pre-placed in world space; [accent color] text + simple line-icons; one virtual .world camera pans ease-in-out between stops. Each station holds ~1.0s.

• Scene 1 (0.0–~1.0s): Camera opens on station 1 — [label 1 / first step] centered. A reveal lands on it (see variants). Camera then begins to PAN toward station 2, sliding station 1 out of frame.

• Scene 2 → Scene N-1 (~1.0s each): Camera PANS (ease-in-out) to center the next station; on arrival its [label k] (+ optional [secondary label]) is REVEALED with the role reveal. Repeat per station.

• Scene N (final, ~last beat): One last pan lands on the terminal station; the final [callout / landing element] reveals and HOLDS to the end. Camera goes static on the punchline.

• Variant — Hook: stations sit as evenly-spaced [markers] on a thin horizontal [timeline] (lower third); pans are LEFT-only along the single axis (timeline scrolls left). Each callout is a bordered [callout box] + downward triangle (offset drop-shadow) that SPRING-POPS up (scale 0→100%, bouncy overshoot, transform-origin at triangle tip) reading [label k]; a [secondary label, e.g. year] fades in and RISES above it. Some mid markers arrive as plain static text revealed by the pan alone (no box). Final scene lands on the [present-day label], springs, holds.

• Variant — Problem: stations are scattered across a 2D web; pans are DIAGONAL, STEERED by [accent color] hand-drawn lines — each station has a rough write-on line/arrow that draws toward the next and the camera follows it (Scene 1 also draws a loop/circle around the headline’s key word). Each station = a white [line-icon] above its [label], revealed plainly by the pan (no spring box). Final scene: the accent line spirals into a dense chaotic SCRIBBLE KNOT centered on the field; camera holds static on the tangle (visual punchline).

motion vocabulary repeated ease-in-out camera pans (horizontal-left for Hook, diagonal-steered for Problem) across one large static canvas; pre-placed stations sliding through frame via the pan; spring-overshoot callout pop with triangle-tip origin (Hook); rise-and-fade secondary label (Hook); plain labels/icons arriving via the pan alone; rough hand-drawn “write-on” leading lines/arrows + loop/circle key-word mark (Problem); terminal chaotic-scribble knot draw (Problem); static hold on the final station/punchline.

rule mapping

• camera pan / traverse across the canvas (primary) → viewport-change (single .world wrapper transform; PAN mode)
• sequencing the repeated pan beats into stops → multi-phase-camera
• centering each station as the pan target → coordinate-target-zoom (used as pan-to-target, no zoom)
• spring-overshoot callout pop, triangle-tip origin (Hook) → spring-pop-entrance
• rise-and-fade secondary label + plain per-station label/icon reveals via the pan → discrete-text-sequence
• hand-drawn leading lines / arrows / loop-circle key-word mark / terminal scribble knot (Problem) → svg-path-draw
• station line-icons (Problem) → svg-icon-enrichment
• static hold on the final station / punchline → (no motion; sustained held frame, no rule needed)

camera modifier: The pan IS the camera. One .world virtual-camera transform in PAN mode — viewport-change — sequenced across stops by multi-phase-camera, each stop targeted via coordinate-target-zoom (pan-to-target). No depth push-in (that distinguishes this from the cluster-push-in / dataviz-pushthrough blueprints).