A design draft assembled during site development, awaiting author editing.
From rays to waves
Early visual studies used glass, caustics and metallic surfaces. The discussion then shifted towards waves themselves: how phase, interference and local singularities could organize a page, rather than serve as an image behind the text.
A slowly varying phase
Adding more waves does not necessarily improve the composition. Too many crossing structures become noise. The current study keeps continuous interference fringes, varying their spacing and curvature slowly. Pointer feedback mainly changes colour along existing fringes, with restrained geometric disturbance.
Papers as a reading surface
Paper previews use the actual first article pages from PDFs. A warm paper surface supports reading, while other pages retain the dark wavefield. Shared navigation and content relationships connect the pages, each with a rhythm suited to its material.