KQ-371 · TAPE/WEAR

Tape Wear

The interface played back from a worn cassette: chroma bleeding sideways, a faint vertical jitter, a tracking band that drifts up the frame tearing what it crosses, dropout streaks, scanlines, and a soft vignette. Every flaw is seeded from the frame clock and the pixel, so the wear is the same on every play.

KQ-371 · TAPE/WEAR

Coldbrook · archive

Reel 14 · winter ledger

Pulled off the vault deck as found, not restored. The tape wears the way years on a shelf wear it — bleeding colour, a band climbing the frame, a dropout every so often — and the same reel plays back the same wear on every pass.

TakeLoggedEventState
T041994.02.11Vault sweep, morningkept
T071994.02.14Guard hold propagatedlogged
T091994.02.19Night deposit runfaded
T121994.02.23Branch closing countdamaged
TRK 0:42:17

played back, worn

Install

One command — the source lands in your repo. Or copy it from the Code tab.

$ pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @kinetiq/tape-wear

Props

PropTypeDefaultDescription
wear / bleed / jitternumberOverall degradation, how far chroma bleeds in px, and the vertical shake.
tracking / trackingSpeed / dropoutsnumberThe tracking band's strength, how fast it climbs the frame, and how many dropout streaks appear.
scanlines / vignette / tintnumberScanline weight, edge darkening, and the warm cast.