Desiderata: a sheet of twenty stamps for things that should exist

Peel back the glassine

How it is made

Nothing here is a picture. Each stamp is a small three-dimensional room, lit from the upper left and drawn again whenever you move, from wherever your pointer is.

The loupe takes the drawing apart. At its centre, the bare model. In the ring around that, its light and shade. Outside it, the finished plate: every surface cut by parallel planes, and the darker the shade, the wider the line.

The sounds are made the same way: computed, with a few recordings under them.

Drag the loupe over a stamp. Drop it on its mark, or press L, to put it away.

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