Accessibility
HadeanEon is a visual and audio artwork. We strive to make it as accessible as possible while preserving its artistic intent.
Controls
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Volume slider and mute button in the bottom-right corner.
Tab to navigate controls. Enter or Space to activate buttons.
Reduced Motion
If your operating system is set to “Reduce Motion,” the experience will automatically adapt: slower camera movement, reduced particle activity, softer transitions, and less visual pulsing. This setting is detected via the prefers-reduced-motion media query.
Poetry Transcript
Infall
“In the beginning, there was only collision.”
“Matter folding into itself. Gravity with no mercy.”
Furnace
“A furnace without walls.”
“The whole world, molten. Bleeding light into nothing.”
Cooling
“The lava cools. Slowly, and not all at once.”
“Stone remembers what the fires forgot.”
Veil
“A thin skin of gas. Barely there, but just enough.”
“The first barrier between the wound and the heavens.”
Threshold
“Something unknown and unnamed begins to bubble.”
“No, not life; not yet. But the permission for it is granted.”
Witness
“You are here.”
“Four billion years of fire, for this one quiet moment.”
“From nothing, everything.”