65,536 birds of light flock on the GPU and answer your hand, from the desert to the library.
From the Desert to the Library
Nine scenes share one canvas and hand over without a cut, from the desert through the labyrinth to the library of Nights. Hold to blow the flute and Ugo comes out. Touch the seal's eight points. Move to steer through the Dungeon. Press and hold to give Ugo your Magoi. Click a book to read its Night, and click to let a soul go home. On the phone the Rukh follow your thumb: hold anywhere to blow the flute, tap the seal's points one by one.
From the Design Sheet to the Browser
The flute is modelled from Ohtaka's own design sheet, part by part. The desert is lit once in Cycles from an aerial beach scan, and its depth and normals let the Rukh light the sand as they fly. The library of Nights is plain geometry under the books; 65,536 Rukh are simulated on the GPU and answer your hand.
A Thousand and One Nights
Magi ran for 369 chapters, one a week, and each is a Night: their title pages in order, read from the right. Every Djinn was one of Solomon's; the story names twenty-seven of the seventy-two, and Ugo came first. Thirty-seven volumes down the tower, one cover at a time. Then Shinobu Ohtaka, story and art.
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic by Shinobu Ohtaka (Shogakukan). This site is a fan homage by Exe.Eyes Labs, not affiliated with the author or publisher. Art © Shinobu Ohtaka / Shogakukan, via the Magi Wiki.
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