Continuum · centre pack

Amber Mist — coalesce to the firm circle

88-frame seamless loop · 470px · rendered 2× then downscaled · onyx ground

Triple-check

Highly rendered — glowing amber motes + hot core, sub-pixel fine (2× supersample)
Dynamic in movement — swirls and breathes when idle; never still
Coalesces correctly — the mist draws into a firm amber circle, then releases; loop is seamless

Idle mist → firm circle

idle swirling amber mist — Idle — swirling mist + hot core

coalesced firm amber circle — Coalesced — the firm circle

Full loop (every ~11th frame)

New renderer: scripts/render/amber_coalesce_mist.py. The previous pack (amber_particle_mist.py) was a breathing nebula only — it never formed a circle. Say the word and I bake this into the onyx/carbon centre pack.