# Showcase sources and notices

The active showcase contains one illustrative on-premises-to-cloud HTML slide
and two original stickman story videos, each under one minute. It contains no NIST or NASA presentations.
The comparison metric is an example, not customer telemetry or a savings claim.
Cloud is not automatically cheaper; a migration decision needs workload,
security, performance and total-cost evidence.

## Original motion and tooling

The two silent shorts use only current, user-approved authored key-pose motions
sampled through the shipping renderer, not the older runtime fixtures. Each film
is one continuous performance under a locked camera, with eased blends and
walks generated from the approved gait, original full-frame environments, timed
state changes and brief text cues rather than presentation layouts.
Unused props disappear; non-looping actions play in full.
They do not demonstrate arbitrary contact-safe choreography,
simultaneous action blending or general-purpose story generation.
Unapproved dance, withheld roll and mechanically unqualified
motions are not used. Ratings and review notes remain in development records,
not the presentation or video UI.

The five legacy clips remain elsewhere as existing runtime fixtures, but are
explicitly excluded from these films. See NOTICE for CMU mocap provenance.
The keyed clips and review props are original authored vector work.
Fonts are local. No remote video-generation API is used.

`ffmpeg-static` and the local SVG rasterizer are optional encoding tools with
their own licensing terms. Their binaries are not embedded in the output.
The two videos are silent H.264 MP4 files with burned-in text and optional,
cue-timed English VTT captions. Exact durations are recorded in the manifest. Non-looping lead actions
are not truncated. Source-spec fingerprints and encoded-file hashes are recorded
in the local manifest so the selected motion versions and media are identifiable.
The private review deck's utilisation figure is illustrative, not measured.
The release candidate instead uses an original native Stickman player with a
fixed workload identity, aligned diagrams and a quieter qualified presenter.
Its demand bars are illustrative, not telemetry. No external presentation
runtime, private deck or screenshots are distributed with that candidate.

## Open-source story

**Open source: a small fix, shared** is an original fictional contribution
journey, not a recording of a real repository. It explains rights to use,
inspect, modify and redistribute, the distinction between open source and
merely visible code, and license-specific obligations. Open source need not
be free of charge. A maintainer accepting a contribution is an example, not
a guarantee. Licensing does not prescribe the illustrated review workflow.

Factual reference, read on 8 October 2026:
[Open Source Initiative: The Open Source Definition](https://opensource.org/osd).
No third-party animation, source-code sample, logo or artwork is reused.
The video explains open-source software; it does not change this repository's
license or publish it as open source.

## Julius Caesar story

**Julius Caesar: ambition changes Rome** is an original, selective historical
overview, not an exhaustive biography or a depiction of ancient testimony.
It covers birth in 100 BCE, consulship in 59 BCE, campaigns in Gaul in
58–50 BCE, the Rubicon in 49 BCE, calendar reform, dictator-for-life status in
44 BCE, assassination on 15 March 44 BCE, and Augustus becoming the first
emperor in 27 BCE. The campaign range includes the aftermath of the decisive
conquest, not eight identical years of battle. Birth-year alternatives exist;
100 BCE is the conventional date used here.

Conquest's human cost is acknowledged. Assassination is conveyed by a
disappearing figure and fallen laurel motif, without weapons or graphic violence.
The figures, temples, river and campaign markers are symbolic original drawings,
not accurate maps, portraits or reconstructed sites. The closing figure is
explicitly labeled Augustus, not a return of Caesar.

Factual reference, read on 8 October 2026:
[World History Encyclopedia: Julius Caesar](https://www.worldhistory.org/Julius_Caesar/).
Calendar implementation date cross-checked with
[Julian calendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar), citing
E. G. Richards, *Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac* (2013).
Only historical facts informed the original script; no source prose, image,
map or animation is copied into the output.

All output remains local/private and ignored by Git. The build does not publish
a site or change repository visibility.