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Stage Haze

The light rig plays the song: seven gel-colored beams sweep through drifting fog over darkness. No fixtures, no truss — the sources hang just off the top of the frame, so the whole picture is light in motion. The other half of the light show, next to Fillmore Oils.

Twelve seconds, scripted 122 bpm pulse. Beams flash and snap tight on each kick, lean into their sweeps with the mids, and the fog shimmers when the cymbals ride.

How it listens

Bass punch: Every beam flashes (~2×) and tightens by a quarter — the rig hitting a cue on the kick. Same onset envelope as the other new modes (padding.x): raw-bass attack, ~280 ms exponential release.
Smoothed bass: Eases the fog's extinction so beams cut visibly deeper on sustained low end.
Mids: Amplify the fast flourish riding on each beam's slow master sweep.
Highs: Shimmer the fog and light the dust motes drifting through the beams.

Three cues

A fan of amber, violet, red and teal beams through fog — **The fan.** Gel colors from the Fillmore Oils palette — hot magenta, amber, blood red, violet, teal — reshuffling on the slow phase.

Same instant with bass punch: beams brighter and tighter — **The hit.** Same instant with punch at 0.95 — flashed and tightened.

Red and teal beams crossing with hot blooms where they meet — **Crossfire.** Edge fixtures aim inward, so sweeps keep crossing mid-frame in additive blooms.

Burn-in posture

Every beam sweeps forever at incommensurate rates; the rig, the haze field, and the dust all drift independently — nothing to park.
No fixture silhouettes: sources live off-screen and wander (drawn hardware is what got the CRT and tape-deck modes benched).
Vignette + 0.85 peak cap, slow gel-palette phase, plus the shared sub-pixel jitter, luminance breathing, and 30-minute dim failsafe.

Touched: PlasmaShader.metal (stageHazeFragment, stateless), PlasmaMetalView.swift (enum case + mapping). The picker lists “Stage Haze” automatically; default visualizer unchanged. tvOS build: succeeded.