The First Version: Four Rooms, One Galaxy

One thing was decided from the very beginning: no navigation bar on the homepage.

Four Rooms

Field · Making · Ideas · Bookshelf—four threads that make up the whole site. They aren’t divided by who’s visiting; they’re four “rooms” you can walk into. Beneath each room, submodules and articles grow, unfolding naturally as you read downward, with no complicated hidden entrances. The entire content tree is driven by a single galaxy.json—adding or removing a room means changing one place.

One Galaxy

The four rooms are four bearings on the galaxy, set upon a tilted elliptical star-disc; the navigation nodes, the connecting lines, and the disc all share the same affine geometry for alignment. The whole site is a single “sunset”—held within a family of blue-violet twilight, no clashing colors, no clamor.

An Opening

On entering, a “rope-lock” opening animation plays once (borrowing a flavor from Arknights / Endfield); it respects the “reduce motion” preference, plays only once, and never stops those who come back.