How this page works

The page is a tiling of the hyperbolic plane by heptagons, three to a corner, drawn in the Poincaré disk. The plane has more room the farther out you go, so the cells shrink toward the edge but never run out.

The center cell is the introduction. The seven around it are six groups of projects and a plain list. Each group's projects sit in the cells just outside it, so clicking a group brings it to the middle with its projects around it. Click a project to open it.

Every other cell takes the color of the lit cell it is fewest steps from, and the light and dark bands count those steps. The colored ring around the disk shows which group reaches each point of the edge from where you are standing, so it changes as you move.

The thin moving lines are pathfinders walking the edges of the tiling. At each corner a pathfinder can go two ways and takes the one whose cells are closer to its own color. That rule comes from Michael Bromley's Chromata.

The drawings in the project cells are sketches of what each project does. The screenshots, descriptions, and links are the projects themselves. Clicking an open cell, or scrolling into it, opens the project: inside this page when its site allows that, and on its own site when it does not. The Long Night cell places real bright stars for the current time, as seen from Los Angeles.

Prefer an ordinary page? All projects as a list.