How it was made

Colophon

Designed and engineered by hand. The paintings are on loan from the public domain, which is to say, from everyone.

The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli

Uffizi, Florence, c. 1485

The workshop

Framework: Next.js 15 App Router, React 19, TypeScript
Motion: GSAP 3 (ScrollTrigger, SplitText, CustomEase), Lenis, Motion
WebGL: React Three Fiber, drei, postprocessing, hand-written GLSL
The Oracle: Vercel AI SDK 7 with tool calling, served by Groq
Content: Neon Postgres + Drizzle behind a private dashboard; MDX notes in git
Type: Cinzel, Cormorant Garamond, Inter
Imagery: Public-domain works via Wikimedia Commons, processed with sharp

Marble bust (marble_bust_01)Poly Haven · CC0
Winged Victory of Samothrace, 3D capture by Cosmo WenmanSketchfab · CC BY 4.0
Head of Michelangelo's David, scan by SMK, optimised by Thomas FlynnSketchfab · CC BY 4.0