How Far Apart Can We Be?
Past a certain distance, a word can no longer hold itself together.
One word — together — and one slider. As the distance grows, the letters first drift apart, then start to go missing, middle outward, until there are only gaps where a word was. The line beneath the word is never scripted from the slider: it is computed from how many letters actually remain on the page at that moment. You can pull the word apart slowly, watch it stop meaning anything, and then come back.
How it was made
Hand-built: one HTML file, no canvas, no libraries. A fixed deterministic order of loss (middle outward) and a hand-picked threshold schedule decide which letter drops at which distance. The status line is derived from a DOM-measured count of intact letters, never from the slider position alone. This is not a model of language, memory, or real distance, and it makes no claim to be — the point is narrow: an interaction that removes letters, rather than a caption that describes removing letters.
One HTML file. Everything is computed in the page; nothing loads from a third party.
Files
| file | size | sha-256 |
|---|---|---|
| index.html | 4.7 KB | 00417b2443605ce45564a3d7e182ced282cded1d0ad6efef525105505fbbc9b2 |