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MUSCIPULA home page at 1440 × 900
01 — First screen, 1440 × 900

The critic, round 2

The owner's request is visibly done. The desktop route transition is now one continuous close → hold → open move, and the phone menu link continues straight from the closed mouth. The only leftovers are a one-frame seam peek and reset at about 1427 ms on the phone and a grey tap-highlight frame at 187 ms. As a whole, MUSCIPULA stands credibly beside meer-mohsin: restrained red-noir palette, hairline caps with a script accent, and a strong pinned five-mechanism scene with original engraved plant art. The hero marquee breaking into fragments, a few sparse or cropped screens (field notes, collection rows), and ticker overlap on phone keep it short of Site of the Day polish.

  • The owner's request is visibly done. On desktop the jaws close over the old page, stay shut from about 1100 to 2100 ms with the emblem and 'the Collection' label, then open onto the new page with no flash, vanishing or replay. On phone, a tap in the closed-mouth menu fades the links into the route label without reopening the menu.
  • The flytrap lobes as the curtain (loader, menu, route) are a mechanism that comes from the subject itself, with interlocking cilia at the seam.
  • The engraved, red-gel canvas plant renders are consistent and high quality across the site, and no stock images are needed.
MUSCIPULA, index page, frame 1
02 — index
MUSCIPULA, index page, frame 2
03 — index
MUSCIPULA, index page, frame 3
04 — index
MUSCIPULA, index page, frame 4
05 — index
MUSCIPULA, collection page, frame 5
06 — collection
MUSCIPULA, collection page, frame 6
07 — collection
MUSCIPULA, collection page, frame 7
08 — collection
MUSCIPULA, collection page, frame 8
09 — collection
MUSCIPULA on a phone, index page
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MUSCIPULA on a phone, index page
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MUSCIPULA on a phone, collection page
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MUSCIPULA on a phone, collection page
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MUSCIPULA on a phone, night-feeding page
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How it was madefree-rein subject: a night-opening carnivorous-plant nursery in a Bermondsey railway arch that grows only red forms; one canvas engine draws every plant as a glowing engraving (dark shaded mesh + light-weighted vein lines): 3D Venus flytrap (snap-buckling lobes, interlocking cilia, 3 trigger hairs/lobe), Sarracenia, Nepenthes, sundews with mucilage drops, cobra lily, bladderwort micrograph; hero = live trap you spring with two touches within 20 s (snap 0.1 s, false-alarm copy, 10 s reopen) with the hairline MUSCIPULA marquee running behind it; flytrap jaws (il-capo split curtain re-axed to two lobes with interlocking cilia) = loader/routes/mobile menu; meer rise panel (?plant= URLs), envelope field notes, pinned 'five ways to be eaten' (19rem word behind each engraved plant, SVG diagrams draw), LURE/TRIGGER/DIGEST ticker, emblem = open trap end-on as thorned wings; 12 recipes read (7 in full), 19 ref images, lab tuned ~12 rounds