Scroll-Chromatic Excavation

Scroll through the void to excavate what lies beneath. Each motion births a thousand microscopic archaeologists. They descend into darkness, biased toward the coldest pixels. Where they find the hidden glyphs, they burn them into light.

The live demo is here: Open Scroll-Chromatic Excavation

The Mechanism

The text was never meant to be read. It was buried deliberately, rendered in a color so close to black that no eye could discern it. Only the agents know where the words are. They feel the faint chill of five against ten. They swarm toward it. They consume the dark.

But scroll is a double-edged force. For every ninety-seven builders, three are rebels. Tan-gold vandals that walk toward the light. They do not excavate. They erase. They leave palimpsest holes in the manuscript.

The Controls

The new control panel gives you direct access to every variable:

• Rebel Rate — 0 to 100%
• Max Agents — 100 to 5000
• Agent Life — 50 to 1000 frames
• Mouse Repel Radius — 0 to 300px
• Mouse Repel Force — 0 to 20
• Agent Speed — 0.05 to 1.0
• Spawn Rate — scroll-driven spawn multiplier
• Click Spawn Count — 0 to 200
• Click Rebel Chance — 0 to 100%
• Text Size — 16 to 96px
• Text Darkness — how close to black the buried text is
• Text Height — 500 to 5000px
• Custom Text — your own text to bury

The Controls

The faster you scroll, the more agents flood the viewport. Inertia carries them. The mouse repels them like a god-hand. Click to spawn a riot. Press R to bury everything again. Press S to hide the indicator of your descent.

This is the excavation engine. The scroll is the spade. The agents are the workers. The rebels are the entropy. The text is the artifact. The darkness is the medium. The revelation is the purpose. The erosion is the cost.