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Geiger counter clicks
Radiation clicks at random: a few a second at home, rising to a crackling rush at the limit, with a burst of clicks as each threshold arrives.
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rateHome | number | 2 | 0.5 to 4 per s | clicks a second at home |
| rateLimit | number | 6 | 3 to 9 per s | clicks a second at the limit, before the bursts |
| build | choice | steady | steady, late, early | how the rate climbs: evenly, mostly near the limit, or mostly at first |
| burstiness | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much clicks clump, and how big the burst is as a threshold nears |
| character | choice | sharp | sharp, dull, glassy | the clicks: bright and dry, low and muffled, or mixed with tiny glass ticks |
| tone | number | 1800 | 700 to 3000 Hz | the middle pitch of the clicks |
| range | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how widely the click pitches vary |
| accents | number | 0.4 | 0 to 1 | how many clicks are loud ones |
| width | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how widely the clicks spread left and right |
| where | choice | home | home, ladder | from home on, or only from the first stretch of the ladder |
| hush | bool | true | – | the clicking stops before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit |
| quietLead | number | 2 | 1 to 6 s | how long before a quiet threshold it stops |
Use it in a film
film.js
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