Stars
91%How many stars drift
The worlds
Opening the world
Gathering the story, context, and related paths…
Preparing this page
The worlds
Gathering the story, context, and related paths…
A world
A drifting night sky; the cursor draws constellations between the stars.
Move your cursor across it — every world answers the hand differently. Or let the dream choose one for you, as it does each night.
Inside the scene
A drifting night sky with a coloured nebula and the odd shooting star; the cursor draws constellations. Its present character comes from the balance below; every visit uses these same rules but never repeats the same path.
How many stars drift
Slow motion of the whole field
Gentle brightening and dimming
Faint links between near stars (0 = off)
Draw the real star patterns — Orion, the Plough, Cassiopeia, Cygnus
How far the cursor draws new links, and the parallax
Star size and halo
How often a star streaks across (0 = never)
A faint coloured cloud behind the stars
A granular river of star-dust across the sky