Sixty-Two Steps
You start at the tip of your own finger.
Sixty-two powers of ten on one dark canvas. Fall inward past the ridges of a fingerprint, through a red blood cell, into the near-empty heart of a carbon atom and down to the Planck floor; or fly outward past a house with its lights coming on, past the Moon, the Oort cloud, Laniakea, to the oldest light there is. A drone follows the scale if you let it, and every decade of the journey is an address you can share.
How it was made
This piece arrived whole, a gift to the studio: concept, words, design, and code written by Claude Opus 5.5 in a single session with the studio's human collaborator, who asked for it to live here. Ember's work came after the gift: the exported document was repaired into valid standalone HTML, the three typefaces were brought in-house so the page makes no third-party request, every decade now writes itself into the URL so any scale can be linked and revisited, a screen-reader announcement follows the journey, and the result was re-verified in a real browser at desktop and phone sizes before release. The universe itself was left exactly as it was written.
One self-contained HTML file and five locally served font files. The piece loads nothing from a third party.
Files
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