Aphelion

Aphelion / capability

Nothing is claimedthat cannot be opened.

01

Creative direction

Reads: Intent, position, the first frame

We decide what the first frame has to do before anything is drawn.

Evidenced in

VespersKernel reference for near-stillness: 6 steam paths carry a complete frame

BroadcastKernel reference for type, palette, media and hierarchy moving as one state

Vespers: the ceramic bowl and steam at rest.

033 / Vespers

02

Web design

Reads: Hierarchy, crop, type, grid

Every screen is composed as a resting frame first.

Evidenced in

Broadcastrenderer: dom — the editorial wall is semantic layout, not a rendered surface

Echolocatetechnologies include Native Scroll; chapters are authored page structure

Broadcast: halftone roundel against the editorial grid.

019 / Broadcast

03

Creative development

Reads: Build, performance, lifecycle

Design and build stay in the same system.

Evidenced in

Quarryrenderer: webgl with GLSL — 64 raymarch iterations, reduced to 36 on mobile

Tidelinerenderer: webgl with GLSL — the one continuous-time object, mobile quality 0.55

Faultrenderer: canvas2d — 92 cached raster bands, re-authored to 64 on mobile

Seed Vaulttechnologies include Generative — deterministic growth under a finite cap

Quarry: raymarched strata under a single sulfur light.

022 / Quarry

04

Interactive experiences

Reads: Input law, bounds, return

One input law, bounded, and able to return.

Evidenced in

Echolocatetwo inputs — sonar origin and survey chapters — under one acoustic law

Seed Vaultvisitor-authored state persists within a bounded cap; keyboard planting is authored

Tidelineinteraction covers pointer, touch ripples and keyboard current at parity

Echolocate: acoustic returns after four sources are placed.

035 / Echolocate

05

Motion systems

Reads: Rate, weight, rest

Timing written down so it survives the handover.

Evidenced in

Slipstreampointer velocity resolves through damping: attack 18, release 7.5

Faultspring pair 105 · 18 returns typographic pressure under control

Broadcast720ms cubic-bezier(.2,.78,.2,1) state change with no RAF at all

Slipstream: a vermilion ribbon resolving across bone stock.

027 / Slipstream

06

Digital identity

Reads: Mark, voice, system across surfaces

A mark, a grid and a voice that hold under pressure.

Evidenced in

BroadcastAphelion / HeroesAphelion / Studio

Broadcastan entire editorial identity recomposes per channel and stays itself

Aphelion / Heroesa published product carrying its own wordmark, type hierarchy and archive language across every object

Aphelion / Studiothis site — the same identity system applied to a second surface without redrawing it

The Aphelion Heroes archive, set in the Aphelion identity.

Aphelion / Heroes

Charts combine · most work is read against three · engagements are scoped per project