Lab

Eight sounds an interface might make, synthesised as they play, each beside the control it belongs to and the motion it lands with: the more often a sound is heard, the shorter and quieter it is.

A picture redrawn in glyphs as you watch: the cloud, the hills around Mougins, your camera or a photo of your own, in letters, lines, blocks or stars.

The cloud from the homepage, put together from its parts: eyes, mouth, cheek, what it holds and what moves around it. It's as alive as the real one, and its link shows the cloud you made.

Six ways to draw an answer as it streams in, side by side on the same stream, from each piece drawn as it lands to whole words, paced, fading in: which keep up, which flow, which keep still.

A pane of glass to drag over the page, bending what's behind it at its rim the way thick rounded glass does, with a drop beside it that melts in when they meet.

Ten ways software says it's working on something, side by side on one run of an agent, and what each one tells you: that it's alive, what it's doing, how long, how to stop it.

A generator for little agent characters, drawn as soft 3D toys: seven bodies, seven kinds of eyes and no mouth, an antenna, ears, arms and legs, clay, vinyl or Aura's glass, and three ways to draw them.

An agent drawn as an iridescent sphere in a rainbow halo, with a state for each part of a conversation: idle, listening, thinking, speaking, done and asleep.

A table of contents whose line is also the scroll bar: the stretch that lights up is the part of the page on screen, mapped section by section onto the contents.

The next 24 hours over Mougins, played: wind as noise from where it blows, rain as drops, the clouds as a chord. Made in the browser from the forecast Ciel draws.

The cloud from the homepage in a room of its own, to pick up and throw. Shake it and it gets dizzy; throw it too hard and it sulks.

The next 24 hours over Mougins, drawn in characters from the forecast: three decks of cloud in the wind, rain beneath them, the sun or the moon over the hills.

Every character the cloud on the homepage is drawn with, the 4.7 KB font they come from, and why its face never moves.

A 3D map of the hills around Mougins, from the coast at Cannes to the pre-Alps above Grasse.