Round 02 · ETS through the years

Inspiration item 21 (2026-10-22). The Lookback (tlb.betteroff.studio), Better Off studio's year-in-review timeline, rebuilt with Zpryme's own photographs of past summits. Plan and guardrails in design/inspiration/through-the-years.md; the mechanics in design/inspiration/teardowns/lookback/ (README.md, VERIFY.md); the photographs and their accounting in _inventory/ and photos/.

The ask, in the owner's words

"I want to take this site exactly pretty much as it is. It would be great to adapt to ours for a look back at ETS through the years. So if we can tap into the Google Drive for Z Prime, the shared drives should have photos from past events, ETS events. and we can use some of those and populate the timeline just so people can scroll through ETS through the years we'll call it something like that and add it somewhere to the site but this is a perfect way to showcase it the timeline … So if we could get some sub-agents cooking on this, that would be awesome."

The lanes

1. The teardown of The Lookback (done, wave four of the teardowns): the eased endless strip, the tilt, the rolling year, the ruler, the flight into an article, the intro, the stack, the look, the phone behaviour, with the quirks a rebuild should fix.
2. The photographs (done): 4,360 considered in the Zpryme Team Drive, 107 shortlisted and brought in as 1600 px web copies with their Drive ids, for 2014 to 2019 and 2022 to 2024. No photographs exist for 2020 and 2021 (virtual summits); most of 2024, all of 2025 and 2026 are not shared with webmaster@ and need a Zpryme person to share them.
3. The build (this round): the Lookback's mechanics with ETS content on the opening's paper, reviewable on the laptop and the phone, then a place on the site.

Versions

• v1-lookback/ · the strip as the Lookback has it (target and lerp, per-slide wrap, clamped tilt, ruler, flight into a detail view) on round 01's sky sheet; the title and the years written in the marker hand; written cards for the years without photographs; keyboard, phone and reduced-motion paths. Shots in v1-lookback/shots/, the reasoning and the open points in v1-lookback/concept.md.

The strip runs 2014 to 2027: Eventbrite calls ETS27 the 14th summit, the Drive has summit folders from 2014, and ETS23 was the tenth anniversary, so there is no 2013 card. If the owner knows otherwise, it is one line of data.

What to judge

• The feel of the strip against the original: the ease after a wheel step or a drag, the lean of the photographs, the lack of a snap. Is 3.5 times the finger right on a phone?
• The paper under the photographs: does the sky sheet carry a hundred photographs the way white carried the Lookback's, or does it want a quieter texture under the strip?
• The year written in the hand and rolling at the centre, against the original's single rolling digit at the right edge.
• The cards for 2020, 2021, 2025, 2026 and 2027: honest placeholders or holes to close before the piece is shown?
• The detail view: in place, as here, or the drawer from the bottom that the rest of the site uses.
• The slot width (320 px, four in view) with landscape frames, and whether the ETS version wants portraits mixed in.
• The phone: the strip at 250 px, the year and the ruler at the top and the foot, the full-width detail.
• Where it lives: a route of its own, a drawer from the bar, and the mind answering "what was ETS like in 2019" by opening the strip at that year.