CHIME
Glass that rings when you touch it, and remembers what you played. The interface is the material.
touch a pane to play
The material
Every strike blooms into the surface and fades like phosphor. The pane below is live: hit it, then watch it let go.
A struck pane rings with four inharmonic partials, the ratios of real glass.
The lowest partial holds longest; the bloom you see decays on the same clock.
Glass answers instantly, then takes seconds to let go.
The instrument
Twelve panes, tuned to a pentatonic scale across two octaves and a step. Anything you play agrees with itself.
The memory
Your last seven notes hold as lit layers, deepest first, each letting go on its own clock.
One glass grammar carries keys, chrome, and memory.
Every surface takes its highlight from the same upper left.
It feels like this, and the whole page is one file.
CHIME
The glass remembers what you played.
If a product surface should feel like this, the same system builds it in any register.
One of four use cases of THE REGISTERS, in its liquid glass register. Designed and built as one page; the instrument is real, and so is the glass.