I spent two weeks last winter deleting the export button from a studio tool. The first review was tense, because the team wanted a final image; the sketch wanted to keep moving. By Friday, the only artifact worth showing was field_step.pde, a file that could contradict itself on every frame.
Stop treating the source as a receipt
When code is reduced to provenance, the work has already been flattened. A loop with a noisy velocity field is not backstage labor; it is the surface, the hand, and the weather system at once. The viewer should feel the parameters breathing, even when the screen appears still.