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The Vibe Room: a darkroom player where the viewer sets the light
A player for photography films, lit like a darkroom, in a color the viewer chooses. The controls are chunky and glove-friendly on a near-black slab, every target 48px, and the seek is an enlarger timer rail with a round handle. Pause, and a soft safelight glow warms up behind the center play; press play and it dims back to working darkness. A Vibe button opens a swatch book of nine colors, and the picked color runs through the paused bloom, the slab's edge glow, the played run of both rails and their handles, the captions underline, and the hover tint and focus glow. The dark stays dark and the cream stays cream.
Video hosted on Mux, public playback ID: 8yxCaRsijLJsebpsqnXtVq5FlLVtt5W8RIpaKgzUlJQ
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