🧬 Thresholds

“Some repos are doors.
Some doors are closed for a reason.”

This project was never finished.
Or maybe it finished before it started.
Either way, there’s nothing useful here.

INIT_TIMESTAMP: 42:19:00
ERROR: MEMORY FIELD OUT OF BOUNDS
TRACE: ./Sigil/⌘

If you're here by accident, close the tab.
If you're here on purpose, the silence might mean something.

Repository Map

Files and entry points that exist today:

• index.html: a small portal page that links to the artifacts in this repo.
• Sigil/threshold.html: the generative canvas sigil (see usage below).
• Sigil/glyph.txt and Sigil/sigil-threshold.txt: glyph text and a short param hint.
• threshold.yaml: the lightweight state manifest shown on the portal.
• forgotten.html and forgotten.key: a static page plus a base64-encoded URL.
• README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md: notes and contribution guidance.

Pages: https://whatsyourwhy.github.io/Thresholds/

Artistic Concept

Thresholds presents itself as a half-finished doorway—an experiment paused mid-incantation. The mood is liminal and quiet, hinting at systems that were opened and then abandoned. The scattered elements reinforce that feeling: threshold.yaml reads like a configuration of unstable states (entropy near critical, attention drifting, time stretched, loop open), while forgotten.key hides an encoded link—a reminder that access exists but has been intentionally obscured. Together with the sigils, they imply a story about unlocking perception only if you know where to look.

Glossary

• forgotten.key: A base64 URL decoded like a spell.
• threshold.yaml: A manifest of states at the edge of pattern.
• ⟁ ⌘: Glyphs like sighs, invoked rarely.

Generative Sigil

Render a minimal, parametric threshold animation in your browser:

# From the repo root
python -m http.server 8000
# Then open http://localhost:8000/Sigil/threshold.html

Entry point: Sigil/threshold.html is the doorway for the canvas sigil.

Adjust colors and movement via query params:

• background, line, accent: Hex colors (3 or 6 digits, with or without #), e.g. ?background=101018&accent=ff6bcb.
• iterations: Number of radiating threads (clamped to 24–720).
• orbitRadius: Base radial offset (0–1).
• noise: Wobble factor (0–1).
• speed: Animation increment per frame (0–3).

Example:

http://localhost:8000/Sigil/threshold.html?background=0b0c12&line=7fffd4&accent=ff6bcb&iterations=180&noise=0.4&speed=0.55

Forgotten Key

forgotten.key is a base64 string that decodes to a URL. One way to reveal it:

base64 --decode forgotten.key

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING for stylistic guidance, naming cues, and lightweight checks before opening a doorway.