Engineering notes
How it was built.
Notes on the engineering behind this site and the software on it, with the measurements that decided each change. Written by the people who made them.
The Orb is one object on one canvas
The Orbis page has a sphere that follows you down the page, becomes each feature in turn, and reacts when a download starts. It is drawn once, in WebGL, with no library.
Read the noteLighting a page from one moving source
Cards that brighten on the side facing the Orb, caustics pooling beneath it, a flare across it. The hard part was doing it without repainting the screen sixty times a second.
Read the noteA front door running at eleven frames a second
The home page stuttered badly, and the cause was not the number of elements. It was blur that moved.
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