Project Primer: A Liquid Glass Menagerie

Origins

Lenticular scenes exploring reality versus illusion in human-AI interaction, inspired by Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Videos generated with Google Gemini Veo, with styling that references Apple's Liquid Glass design language.

Structure

• Five lenticular scenes: Unicorn, Penguin, Wolf, Canary, Goldfish — each a separate component
• Gemini Veo generates videos; frames extracted and rendered in a React LenticularDisplay component
• Lazy-loaded "Load More" pattern for progressive scene loading
• Components in components/menagerie/

Agent Guidance

• The literary reference is key: Williams's play is about fragile illusions, and each scene explores that theme through AI-generated visual material
• "Liquid Glass" references Apple's design language — the styling is deliberately evocative
• Each animal scene maps to thematic ideas about perception, reality, and AI creativity