dot unit

A cream handheld device stands on a dark, grainy backdrop: a rounded 480 × 808 body lit from the top, a round dark screen of 33 × 33 orange dots in a cream bezel ring, four engraved icons (music, rain cloud, timer, message), a sunken slider track with an orange knob, and a speaker grille. In the 12-second seamless loop a cursor drags the knob to the next stop every 3 seconds, lets go and waits beside it. At each change the new screen ripples up the dot matrix from the slider, with a bright front running ahead: a radial music spectrum round a pulsing core, a cloud with falling rain and 14°, a 0:25 countdown with a ring of dots burning down, and an avatar that pings while "HI ARI" scrolls past. The device is DOM and CSS gradients; the screen is a canvas drawn every frame from a 5 × 7 dot font and a few shapes. ?rec and window.__render(t) draw any moment for frame-exact video export, and reduced motion gets one still.