LAMELLA
What it is
Free-rein brief ("a website about anything you want"), assigned archetype H — explorable stage (no-scroll world), round 1 of an unattended build → test → critique loop. Goal: impress (award-level craft) while staying usable: a stage you play with, backed by plain routes. Subject chosen for the backbone (see Directions): LAMELLA, a fictional petrographic thin-section workshop in Kelham Island, Sheffield. It saws, grinds and mounts rocks until they are 30 µm thick, thin enough for light to pass and for a polarising microscope to read the minerals by their interference colours. Sheffield is where Henry Clifton Sorby showed, in the 1850s, what rocks look like when ground thin — the workshop is fiction, the optics and the rocks are real. Audience: geologists, universities, museums, collectors, curious people. Content: all copy written here; every picture is drawn by one engine (no photos). Constraints: Vite + vanilla JS, no network except npm/fonts, must work on phones, reduced motion, test harness clicks header links and the phone menu.
This is the build's own brief, kept as it was written. LAMELLA is a demonstration build: it is real, it runs, and it is not a client job.
Measured palette
Six colours sampled from the build itself, in the order they were found. They are listed because a palette is a decision, and decisions should be visible.
On a phone
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