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Study 03

Post Road

A fictional webhook service told as Hiroshige's road, played frame by frame as you scroll, each station dithering into the next.

Open the study
Post Road's first screen: Hiroshige's Mishima in morning mist, travellers passing a shrine gate, and the headline Every post arrives. on a paper card.
Medium
  • scroll-film
  • dither-dissolve
  • chapter-rail
  • hairline-grid
  • split-reveal
  • label-chip
  • smooth-scroll
Built
, with the kit's scroll film, commit 338d155
Sources
Four prints from Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, c. 1833/34, and Hokusai's Great Wave, 1830/33, from The Art Institute of Chicago, public domain (CC0). The camera moves are made in code.
Checked
No console errors and no sideways scroll at 1440×900 and 390×844, and every word shown with motion reduced. Each point of the scroll shows its own frame.