← Lab/EXPERIMENT · 03INTERACTIVE

Refraction study

A rounded slab of glass laid over the signal. Move across it and the layers bend at different rates — a study in making “looking closely” literal.

SLICE-GLASS / REFRACTION · LIVE
move your cursor across the glass →
HOW TO READ IT

Each vertical slice blurs and shifts by a different amount. Your cursor is the light source; the panel refracts around it.

WHY IT MATTERS

Trust work is mostly looking carefully at things other people skim. We wanted an object that rewards attention — that only resolves when you move through it.

METHOD
Layered backdrop-filter slicesPointer-driven CSS transformPure CSS · no canvas
← Lab/EXPERIMENT · 04MAP

Who actually connects

An ecosystem map of who is genuinely connected to whom — versus who merely claims adjacency.

core fork wiki exchange
ECOSYSTEM MAP · OBSERVED
HOW TO READ IT

Nodes are projects and people; links are real, observable relationships — shared code, cross-citations, governance overlap.

WHY IT MATTERS

Stated ecosystems are marketing. Actual ones are a graph. The gap between the two is often where trust is quietly borrowed.

METHOD
Relationships from public sourcesHand-tuned force layoutStatic render
← Lab/EXPERIMENT · 05STUDY

Activity, abstracted

Raw activity reduced to a pulsing grid. Legibility through subtraction.

SIGNAL PIXELS · 30-DAY BIN
brightness = recency · the pattern is the signal
HOW TO READ IT

Each cell is a unit of public activity over time; brightness is recency. The pattern, not any single cell, is the signal.

WHY IT MATTERS

Dashboards drown you in precision you can't act on. An abstracted view shows rhythm — bursts, lulls, the shape of momentum.

METHOD
Binned public eventsOpacity keyframesCSS grid
← Lab/EXPERIMENT · 06SYSTEM

Surface tags

Every surface the public reads you on, drawn as one connected, labeled system.

SURFACE DEPENDENCY MAP Docs Site GitHub Discord X / posts Forum
HOW TO READ IT

Each pill is a surface; the dashed links show where a claim on one surface depends on another.

WHY IT MATTERS

Teams manage surfaces in isolation. Readers experience them as one tangled thing. Mapping the dependencies is how you keep them consistent.

METHOD
Surface inventory from an auditDashed dependency linksStatic layout
← Lab/EXPERIMENT · 07INTERACTIVE

Confusion as a flow field

A prototype for drawing confusion as a living system. Each node is a public question; each link is where one misreading drags another along with it.

CONFUSION FIELD · LIVE
move your cursor across the field →
HOW TO READ IT
A node is a public question
A link is shared confusion
Bigger = more downstream pull
WHY IT MATTERS

A static FAQ hides which questions are load-bearing. Disturb one node and watch its neighbors react — that's where to spend your first clarification.

METHOD
Synthetic, sanitized audit patternsForce-style placementCanvas 2D · self-healing resize

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