QUARTZPLAY v3 · PRISM BUS · BOUNCE ON · DING-DONG ARMED
block Q-01 · facet 7 · bounce-spring OK · ding-dong synth: on
Light refracted · Toys uncrated · Press anything shiny
Opto-Toy Interface

Not a page.
A toybox
with lenses.

Quartzplay is what happens when the UI gets bored of being useful. Cards are cut from one crystal, each catches the room differently. Push one—it bounces, it dings, it shows you the back.

Spin the gem ✦
crystal blocks

Cut from one quartz

Q-01

Prismcard

Flat five-sided cut. Front says one thing, tilt it—back says another in mirror-rainbow.

↺ hover to facet · click to ding
Q-02

Bouncebutton

Springs 15% past its size then settles. Sound is visual here, so it flashes instead of rings.

scale 1→1.15→1 · 0.4s
Q-03

Kaleidoslug

Drag it and the whole background mandala rotates half a turn. Let go, it keeps spinning slowly.

conic follow · inertia
Q-04

Mintjelly

Translucent block with a trapped bubble. The bubble is your last click, preserved, wobbling.

refraction index 1.5
Q-05

Topazslider

Looks like a control. Isn't. Just slides light from pink to cyan and hums in gradient.

hue 320→180 · no value
Q-06

Amethystcore

The one the gem in the hero spun off from. Holds the page's only serious thought, badly.

opaque · soft
cross-section

A refracted reading

On Playing Interfaces

A serious page wants to be finished. A toy page wants to be turned over, shaken, held to the lamp. Quartzplay keeps one serious sentence inside the amethyst core and surrounds it with things that go ding.

We do not ship tools. We ship facets. You rotate the problem until the light falls on the part you can finally read.

5

faces/gem

1.5

n of joy

tilts
toy telemetry

What the glass is doing

P-01
Gem Q-06 core spin phase
+14° / slow
P-02
Prism Q-01 back-face reveal
mirror-rainbow
P-03
Bounce-button last press
ding (visual)
P-04
Kaleido-slug inertia hold
+0.5 rad/s
P-05
Your cursor, facet drag
refracting
crank terminal

Crank a block out

Roll from the quartz

TOYBOX STATE

Gem: spinning · Prisms: 6 cut · Bounce-spring: OK · Ding-synths: visual only

LAST CRANK

Q-GHOST rolled "the door was faceted" → cut to Q-01 back-face, dinged, kept the mirror-rainbow.

CONTACT PLAYROOM

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