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BUILD NOTES / 2026-10-14

ascend
From prompt to page.

A world closer to your users. An independent static interpretation of the archived GetLayers brief.

01 / Read the brief

The text source is 14-ASCEND-LIVING-EARTH-SAAS.md. Reference media could not be inspected in this environment. This is not a pixel-identical reconstruction.

02 / Establish a visual system

Background #030a10, foreground #ecfff8, accent #76e8b6, surface #101e26. Local fonts, a responsive 1320 px maximum grid, and a site-specific hero composition establish the hierarchy.

03 / Build the signature mechanism

A procedurally painted Earth texture uses coarse authored continent polygons, a PBR sphere, additive atmosphere, star points, and orbit arcs. Region selection interpolates globe orientation and highlights a surface marker. SDK examples and usage calculator run locally.

04 / Make it interactive

05 / Record the adaptations

Stylized low-detail Earth rather than photoreal NASA textures. No accurate borders, live traffic, true latency measurement, cloud simulation, SDK, or deployment backend. The 42-region claim is explicitly imaginary.

Shared architecture: local Three.js, native scrolling, a single frame scheduler, capped pixel density, offscreen/hidden-tab suspension, reduced-motion support, CSS fallback, and no backend.

06 / Validate honestly

See the actual validation record for test results. Automated checks do not replace manual screen-reader testing or reference-image comparison. All readouts and submissions are illustrative and local.

07 / Reproduce the build

python3 -m http.server 8080 --bind 0.0.0.0
# Open /getlayersai/sites/ascend/

cd getlayersai
python3 tools/build.py
python3 tools/verify.py
npm ci
npm test

Edit this site's record in tools/catalog.py before rebuilding. Shared rendering and interactions are in shared/scenes.js and shared/interactions.js. Generated HTML and documentation will be overwritten on regeneration.

Complete source documentation

README ↗Adapted prompt ↗Build log ↗