LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER
40 presets, grouped by what you see. Built from display-industry glossaries and Japanese makers’ descriptions; animation timings, colours and interface groupings are authored for Afterlight.
Some names overlap. Canopies such as kamuro and nishiki share a family; a fan is an arrangement, not a new kind of burst. Each preset’s notes keep those distinctions visible.
Clean, coloured stars. A perfect sphere without a trailing tail.
A full sphere of fine, sparkling radial trails.
Fewer, brighter stars; a broad, open flower.
A compact, bright core sits within an open outer flower.
A smaller central bloom nested inside a larger shell.
Three nested spheres opening around a shared centre.
An outer flower and three inner cores open as four concentric spheres.
Long-burning gold trails turn downward into a wide curtain.
A dense, glittering gold canopy with a woven texture.
A hanging crown of long, fine golden trails.
A full, sparkling golden canopy that lingers.
A few thick branches spread above a rising trunk.
Fast, straight arms spread wide, then slow and fall.
A soft, compact plume turns over into a close fall of parallel tails.
A single expanding circle of stars in a plane.
A bright central sphere encircled by a tilted ring.
An expanding heart drawn in individual stars.
A five-pointed figure picked out in light. An authored pattern interpretation.
Stars trace an expanding spiral. An authored pattern variation.
A circle, two eyes and a curved smile, best seen head-on.
Individual stars blink independently across the burst.
A fine succession of delayed sparkles along the trails.
A burst ends in small branching flashes and sharp snaps.
A wave of colour moves across sectors of an expanding shell.
Stars change colour during the same flight.
A short white flash and a strong report, with few stars.
Each travelling star splits into four smaller arms.
Soft points drift downward without a hard expanding break.
Tiny self-propelled lights dart away from the centre.
Short-lived stars swim through small curling paths.
Spinning, spark-shedding elements swirl through the air.
A parent shell releases a constellation of smaller breaks.
One rising star draws a thick tail; no aerial burst.
A sudden fan of stars lifts directly from the ground.
A coordinated spread of angled comets across the sky.
A sustained low spray of sparks and a gentle hiss.
A suspended line sheds a curtain of falling sparks.
A timed succession of rising stars from one position.
A fixed ground wheel rotates, casting curved streams of sparks.
A fixed outline lights up in small, steady points.
The links below support the visual vocabulary. A spiral and five-point star are authored pattern interpretations, not frame-matched reproductions of a specific show.