Made of little things
Every meowl is an original Canvas pencil drawing: one continuous cat-eared outline, looped wings, short bird feet, and damped springs for yielding and recovery. Atul's clipboard meowl supplied the character reference. The moving rock displays the original pen marks from Atul's supplied Sisyphus image, clipped to a traced collision outline. The image's artist is unverified. Its figure informed the loose, open linework. Mountains and the navigation map are drawn as code-native paths. Matter.js 0.20.0 handles the irregular rock, impact chips, ground and meowl's physical contact.
Fancy Pants Adventures informed the expressive drawn movement. QWOP informed balance and recovery. Stick Fight and Jolt's powered rigs and soft bodies informed physical reaction and yielding. Their art and code are not included. The 2D simulation uses Matter.js and a small custom spring rig.
Matter.js MIT license. Sound uses edited recordings, with separate music and effects controls.
The earlier full work-page playback controls adapt the Rare UI StepPlayer by Swami Malode. MIT license. The original React source is retained in the project; this site uses a local JavaScript adaptation.
Type
Nothing You Could Do for the handwritten headings; Newsreader for the reading. Both are served locally under the SIL Open Font License. Handwriting license / Reading license. Earlier work pages retain IBM Plex Sans and DM Serif Display in a few secondary elements.
The PoE details
The three MTXtato preview images are the actual Celestial Aura, Celestial Aura III and Divine Righteous Fire catalogue icons used in Atul's app. Path of Exile artwork belongs to Grinding Gear Games; these previews were packaged from the app's existing catalogue. The wearable animated effects here are original Canvas drawings. The red cap references the classic Goldrim item.
The badly fitting hat
The Poetato mascot sticker comes from Atul's existing Poetato website. Its Goldrim inspired the little drawn cap on the pathfinding meowl.
A few words I keep
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus; Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.31, George Long translation; Seneca, Letter 78.2, Richard M. Gummere translation; Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho. The necessity line is a traditional proverb, with a related formulation in Plato's Republic, book II. The rematch line circulates online, but its original author is unverified; it is retained at Atul's request without assigning it to Epictetus. The Onion reminder is Atul's.
References
The small Deadlock urn is an original line drawing based on a Spirit Urn gameplay reference. Deadlock and its original designs belong to Valve.
Atul supplied Sisyphus Animation: 2011 Malaria Forum for its physical struggle and changing posture. Storyboard frames informed the brace, slide and heave sequence. Full playback was unavailable during research.
Shrey Gupta inspired the shared playful material. Atul supplied Fable as a reference for personal expression. Its winding line, changing scale and broad stretches of empty paper informed the connected landscape here. The meowl pushing a boulder, and the visitor helping, came directly from Atul.
Jhey for small web experiments with personality. Bruno Simon for making the interaction itself the introduction. Atul's own idea supplied the fictional interview and HALO rescue.
The saved collection preserves the original research and its sources.
Music: peaceful solitude by Eternal Warriors, adapted to local MP3 playback at Atul's request, in twelve streaming sections. Probability sounds are short cuts from the Plinko preview supplied by Atul. Recorded gravel footsteps, paper, train, cat, cartoon, explosion, interface and magic effects come from Mixkit under its Sound Effects Free License. Selected object impacts come from Kenney Impact Sounds (CC0). Clips were trimmed, softened, levelled and lightly varied for this website. The cat voices use real meow recordings; their mouth movements follow the recording envelope.
GitHub and LinkedIn symbols from Bootstrap Icons, MIT license.
Small sounds and new detours
Mechanical keypress by MattRuthSound, CC BY 4.0. Trimmed, filtered, softened and varied in pitch. Six kitten phrases are separate edits of three Mixkit recordings; individual mouths follow their own playback envelopes. Project-panel music uses original, quiet synthesised arrangements.
The OCR example extracts the text-normalisation and matching stage from Atul's Python crafting prototype. Its browser illustration uses sample OCR output, not a live screen capture.