Eschatia: Devlog 4

The last major addition has been made to eschatia, which is ambient mode. Every destination now has a cinematic screensaver you can enter from the viewer.

When in this mode, the image slowly drifts across the screen while a generative audio drone plays underneath. The drone is three notes tuned to an open fifth chord, breathing in and out on a 25-second cycle. It sounds like how being in space probably feels. From the Explore page, “Drift anywhere” chains destinations together automatically, fading to black between them every 15 seconds. I built it as a classroom screensaver feature pretty much.

That brings the full feature list to 20 narrated deep-zoom destinations, interactive hotspots on every image, human-scale comparisons, a live feed of JWST observations from NASA’s archive, and an ambient mode.