Static showcase — concept preview

One crossing. Two universes.

Multiverse gives scientific collaboration and software craft two addressable worlds of their own, joined by a single entry. This prototype is the visual concept: typography, layout, motion, navigation and mobile behaviour, with every unavailable figure left visibly unavailable.

Concept status

Routes and motion are open for review. No measured view is published yet: without a reviewed, dated snapshot in the site, no figure appears anywhere in this prototype.

01 — Universe

OpenScience
Universe

Scientific collaboration and the outputs it accepts.

Enter Data views sealed — no approved snapshot 02 — Universe

Code
Universe

Software worlds supplied by collaborators, not written for them.

Enter Awaiting collaborator-supplied content

Plate 00 — sky field: decorative artwork. It plots nothing.

Source ledger

Reserved, not filled.

The concept keeps the shapes that measured content will occupy, and marks each one with its true status. Nothing is fetched at runtime: a view appears only after a reviewed, dated snapshot ships with the site as a static file.

01 Population Who is present in the universe, and how presence changes across a covered period. OpenScience Sealed
02 Author-associated throughput Work attributable to each author across a covered period. OpenScience Sealed
03 Available latency Available source-scoped latency evidence. Its exact measurement definition and coverage come with the approved snapshot. OpenScience Sealed
04 Cross-actor collaboration Interactions that cross from one actor to another, including reviewers, editors and human peers. OpenScience Sealed
05 Accepted outputs over time Outputs that qualified for acceptance, grouped by period. OpenScience Sealed
06 Collaborator projects Software worlds contributed by collaborators, presented as supplied. Code Awaiting content
07 Outbound source links Deliberate, user-clicked links to approved source material. No embeds, no prefetching. Both None published

Hatched — sealed, nothing measured is on display Sealed is not zero: a zero is a measured result and would be shown as one.

Behaviour

What this prototype demonstrates.

Direct addresses

/open-science/ and /code/ are ordinary static paths. Each page stands alone; nothing depends on arriving from the crossing.

Keyboard first

Every route is a link. Focus is drawn in the hue of the universe being entered, and the tab order follows the reading order.

Motion you can decline

Aperture travel, sky drift and scroll reveals all stand down under prefers-reduced-motion. The pages read the same, still.