The Corridor Grid Mode: Walls Made of the Spectrum
Corridor Grid turns the Tunnel's corridor square and tiles its walls with lit panels: one panel per band, one row per ring, and each row the spectrum of its own moment.
Corridor Grid is the Tunnel engine at its most architectural: a square corridor of lit wall panels, one panel per band and one row per ring, flown toward the light, with the floor shining under it and a shockwave down the walls on every kick.
Panels, not rings
The corridor is square whatever the Cross section control says, so that control is left out of this mode's panel. Its walls are tiled: nine panels across each half, running from the middle of the floor (the bass) up the walls to the middle of the ceiling (the treble), mirrored left and right, with one row of panels between each pair of rings.
Each row is the spectrum of the moment its ring appeared at the far end, frozen and carried toward you, so the walls are a record of the last few seconds of the track. A panel's light is its band's level through a contrast curve, so quiet bands fall dark and loud ones burn, and the corridor reads like an equalizer you are flying down.
A glossy floor
The floor reflects the panels across the corridor from it, strongest down its middle, and carries the core light's streak toward the camera; Gloss sets both. The seams between rows are the rings themselves, drawn as thin lines and thicker on each downbeat, so the bars are countable down the walls.
Rows, depth and field of view
Rings sets how many rows line the corridor and ships at 36. Field of view opens the walls out or brings the far end close. Surface deformation ships low, at 0.06, so the walls stay straight; raise it and each row bulges with its spectrum.
The beat, and the flight
Each kick sends a shockwave out of the core that lights the panels it passes and fades before it reaches the edge of the frame, and a new section banks the camera and steps the palette, which the new rows carry forward. Travel is the integral of Speed, smoothed over a second and a half, so the corridor never lurches on a beat.
When to reach for it
Techno, trance, synthwave, drum and bass, trailers, and anything that wants relentless forward motion with structure around the viewer rather than past them. It holds centred text well, because the middle of the frame is the far end of the corridor. For the same engine with rings cut from the waveform, read The Waveform Tube Mode; for its particle mode, The Particle Vortex Mode: Five Arms Lit by the Core.
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