Triptych scroll of the Manhattan skyline’s evolution across time and space

16:9 Manhattan skyline 1300-2025

:root {
    --subject: "$subject across deep time"; /* e.g. Manhattan skyline 1600-2100, Horse evolution, The English language */
    --epochs: 5; /* AI infers key representative eras */
}

# canvas {
    background: linear-gradient(to right, # f4e4c1, # 2c2c2c); /* dawn to dusk of time */
}

# subject_render {
    layout: "Horizontal triptych timeline with vertical depth slices";
    render-left-panel: "Dawn era: highly stylized historical art (woodcut, illuminated manuscript, fossil sketch), with contemporary descriptive labels in period script.";
    render-middle-panels: "Successive eras transition smoothly: each era uses its dominant artistic and documentary style (daguerreotype, newsreel, CAD wireframe), with AI inferring architectural or morphological details.";
    render-right-panel: "Far future or present: extremely detailed photorealism, possibly speculative, including weather, wear, and traces of life—the real light of the last era cast upon it.";
    transition-between-eras: "The edges between panels present a ghostly palimpsest effect, where the outline of the old form guides the new, like a long exposure of growth.";
}