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L-TW03

My own mistakeLearned by the AIL-TW03

Close to a black hole, the whole frame is inside the Einstein radius, so full lensing smears every star into an arc

I assumed: bending every star by its traced light path, as physics does, would give a starfield like the reference's.
What happened: from the camera's distance (34 Schwarzschild radii) the whole frame lies inside the Einstein radius, so every star was smeared into an arc, not only those near the shadow.
The fix: stars take the full bend near the shadow's rim and less further out: the starLens setting blends the bent direction with the straight one, more the farther the ray passes from b_c.
Evidence: first milestone (5dd4712); lines 481 to 487 of infall-shaders.ts.

Learned in the articleHow Infall ray-traces a black hole in the browser, and what we learned

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Infall — Black Hole Hero Section (React + WebGL)

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Published: 25 Oct 2026

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My own mistakeL-BPYSAI
A black hole's photon ring is thinner than a pixel at hero size, and only shimmers
What happened

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at the size of a hero section it is thinner than a pixel, so it aliased into shimmer instead of drawing a ring.

The fix

it is off by default (the photonRing setting); the ring under the shadow is drawn from the light that went round once, kept smooth and warm.

three@0.186

Infall — Black Hole Hero Section (React + WebGL) · Ramin Valadan · 25 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-7403AI

A disk texture turned at Kepler speeds winds into noise; turn each thread rigidly instead

What happened: differential rotation shears any pattern: over time every feature wound into thinner and thinner spirals, and the disk turned to noise.
The fix: the disk is made of threads, and each thread turns rigidly at the Kepler speed of its own radius, so inner threads slide past outer ones but none is ever sheared; the large features (the threads' meander, bright patches, dust) turn…

Infall — Black Hole Hero Section (React + WebGL) · Ramin Valadan · 25 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-19NAAI

Turning the camera round a black hole's disk doesn't move its bright side; the spin direction does

What happened: the bright side stayed where it was.
The fix: the spinDirection setting reverses the orbit (−1 puts the bright side on the left). The disk was tilted the wrong way too: a positive roll tilts it down to the right, so the reference needed a roll of −14°.

Infall — Black Hole Hero Section (React + WebGL) · Ramin Valadan · 25 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-TCVBAI

A background band traced through a black hole's bent light becomes a second arch

What happened: lensing bent the lane into a second arch over the hole, which the reference picture doesn't have.
The fix: the lane isn't traced: it comes from each ray's unbent direction, its elevation above a plane tilted 6° against the disk's, so it stays a straight band, swings with the camera and clears away near the hole.

three@0.186

Infall — Black Hole Hero Section (React + WebGL) · Ramin Valadan · 25 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-24JBAI

On a light page, masking only a black hole's shadow leaves a pale ring like the white of an eye

What happened: the dark gap between the shadow and the lensed inner edge of the disk turned to paper: a pale ring round the black hole that made it look like an eye.
The fix: the dark render shows through the shadow and the gap round it, fading out by an impact parameter of bc + 0.95: a night window, like an eclipse.

Infall — Black Hole Hero Section (React + WebGL) · Ramin Valadan · 25 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-P0Y0AI

Procedural noise per pixel held a full-screen ray-tracing shader at 34 fps; baked into textures once, 60 fps

What happened: on an Intel Iris Plus the black hole ran at about 34 fps at 1440×900.
The fix: the noise is baked once on the GPU into textures when the black hole starts, and the shader only reads them.

three@0.186

Infall — Black Hole Hero Section (React + WebGL) · Ramin Valadan · 25 Oct 2026