Add a pong animation

The video frame plays the paddle: it slides along the bottom of the
screen and nowhere else, a square ball runs the diagonals off the walls,
and every ball that gets past the frame puts one on a seven-segment
counter in the top right.

The frame is solid on all four sides, not just its face, so a ball that
comes at its flank or up under it is turned away too. Which side a hit
came in on is read from where the ball was before the step, with a
shallowest-penetration fallback for the frame sliding into the ball
rather than the other way round — without that the ball tunnels in and
rattles inside the frame. The face keeps the original's angle rule, where
the hit position sets the departure angle, so rallies develop instead of
the ball retracing one line; the other three sides are plain reflections.

The paddle steers by predictLanding, which unfolds the wall reflections
analytically instead of simulating them. A paddle that outruns the ball
never loses, so PONG_MISS_CHANCE of the time it aims a width wide and
lets one through — otherwise the counter would sit on 00 all night.

The digits are SVG polygons built from a segment map, so the era-correct
display costs no font file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H9v2Xoa6eoeGYpK6gp95k9
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2026-08-10 20:29:01 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -152,6 +152,67 @@ body {
transform: scale(0.82);
}
/* --- pong --------------------------------------------------------------- */
/* Built and removed by the pong animation. Above the frame, so the ball is
never hidden behind the paddle it is bouncing off. */
#pong {
position: fixed;
inset: 0;
z-index: 3;
pointer-events: none;
}
#pongBall {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: #fff;
/* Square, and no smoothing: the original had no room for a round ball. */
box-shadow: 0 0 18px rgba(255, 79, 195, 0.7);
will-change: transform;
}
/* Out of play between a goal and the next serve. */
#pongBall.out {
opacity: 0;
}
#pongScore {
position: absolute;
top: clamp(16px, 4vh, 56px);
right: clamp(16px, 4vw, 72px);
display: flex;
gap: 0.35em;
font-size: clamp(2.5rem, 7vh, 6rem);
}
#pongScore .digit {
display: block;
height: 1em;
/* The viewBox is 24 wide by 44 tall. */
width: calc(1em * 24 / 44);
}
/* An unlit segment stays visible, just barely — that faint ghost of the whole
figure eight is what makes the display read as a seven-segment one. */
#pongScore .segment {
fill: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.07);
}
#pongScore .segment.lit {
fill: #fff;
filter: drop-shadow(0 0 10px rgba(255, 79, 195, 0.8));
}
/* The paddle: a hard-edged slab, so the ball has something square to hit. */
#frameMover.paddle #frameSkin {
border-radius: 0;
box-shadow:
0 0 0 3px #fff,
0 0 34px rgba(255, 79, 195, 0.6);
}
.deck {
position: absolute;
inset: 0;