Terms of Service

1. The service in plain English

TriSolaria publishes art pieces — short audio-visual works driven by a deterministic physics simulation. Visitors can watch any published piece. Signed-in users can fork a piece, tweak its parameters, render the result, and publish their remix to the gallery.

We don’t (yet) let users write their own simulation code — only configure existing pieces. If that ever changes, these terms will be updated.

2. Eligibility & accounts

• You need to be at least 13 years old to use TriSolaria.
• Account creation goes through Clerk; you’re responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials secure. Tell us at hello@trisolaria.com if you suspect unauthorised access.
• We may suspend or remove accounts that violate these terms, harass other users, or abuse the platform’s resources.

3. Ownership of the pieces

Every piece on TriSolaria — the underlying simulation code, the shaders, the audio synthesis, the parameter schema, and any presets shipped by us — is created by Maxim Nawangwe and remains his intellectual property. Browsing, forking, and remixing within TriSolaria is welcomed; redistributing the piece source, lifting code into another product, or claiming authorship of a piece is not.

4. Your remixes

When you fork a piece and edit its parameters, the configuration (the parameter values, your title and description, the order of choices you made) is yours. By publishing it on TriSolaria you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host that configuration, render its preview, and display it in our gallery, search results, and promotional material. The licence ends when you unpublish or delete the scene.

The underlying piece code stays Maxim’s — your rights are over the parameter set you authored, not over the simulation it runs against.

Don’t publish remixes whose title, description, or any public metadata contains content that violates section 5.

5. Acceptable use

Don’t use TriSolaria to:

• Harass, threaten, or impersonate any person.
• Publish content that’s illegal, defamatory, hateful, sexually explicit, or designed to deceive.
• Disrupt the service, the database, or other users’ access — including via automated scraping, brute-force sign-in, or denial-of-service traffic.
• Reverse-engineer, copy, or redistribute the piece source code without written permission.
• Bypass our authentication or access another user’s account.

6. Renders & downloads

The studio lets you render a published or draft scene to a local video file (MP4) on your own machine. That file is yours to use however you like, with two limits:

• If you share the rendered video publicly (social media, portfolio site, etc.), please credit “TriSolaria — Maxim Nawangwe” alongside the video, with a link back to trisolaria.com when the medium supports it.
• Commercial use of the rendered output (selling the video, licensing the piece, syncing it to a paid project) requires written permission from Maxim. Reach out via hello@trisolaria.com to arrange that — we’re open to it.

7. Service availability

TriSolaria is a small project, not an SLA-backed product. We make a best effort to keep the gallery online and your published scenes accessible, but we don’t guarantee uptime, performance, or that any specific feature will continue to work the same way over time. We may add, modify, or retire features as the project evolves.

8. Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including but not limited to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Your use of TriSolaria is at your own risk.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, TriSolaria and Maxim Nawangwe are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the service — including but not limited to loss of data, lost renders, or interruption of access. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is capped at the amount you paid to use the service in the previous 12 months (which, today, is zero).

10. Termination

You can stop using TriSolaria and delete your account at any time — see the privacy policy for the deletion flow. We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, if you breach these terms or if we decide to wind down the service. On termination, your published scenes will be unpublished and your draft scenes deleted within 30 days.

11. Changes

We may update these terms as the service evolves. Material changes will be announced on this page and, when we have a way to reach you (e.g. you’re signed in and we have your email), via direct notification. Continued use of the service after a change constitutes acceptance.

12. Governing law & contact

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which Maxim Nawangwe primarily resides at the time of the dispute, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will, where possible, be resolved informally before any other recourse — write to hello@trisolaria.com and we’ll try to sort it out.