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# start

The moment to begin an animation.

## Discussion

This property is a normalized percentage. The default value is `0.0`, which corresponds to the beginning of the animation. The maximum value is `1.0`, which represents the end of the animation.

### Declaration

```other
uniform double start = 0.0
```

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