Doug
Our mascot. He is a cube with a face, he lives in the corner, and the plan is that he ends up doing actual work.
He is watching your pointer right now.
Move it and his head turns. Click him and he jumps. Keep scrolling and he comes with you: he walks down the page and ends up in the corner, which is where he stands on every other page on this site.
What he is for
Doug is meant to be our internal assistant. Athren prepares a customs case and leaves the open questions for the declarant, and somebody still has to notice when one is waiting. The plan is that Doug is the one who says so: he points at the case with a question open, says what it is, and asks before doing anything.
None of that is built. Right now he is a drawing in the corner with a pointer to follow, so this is the plan and not the feature. What he needs first is somewhere to stand inside the product and a rule about when he is allowed to speak, since an assistant that talks when it has nothing is a paperclip.
Line 3 of the new case has a question open: porcelain or other ceramic? Want to look?
Two colours, and neither of them his
One drawing, two grounds. His body takes the site's accent and his face takes the paper, so he flips when the ground under him flips: #2F5D7E on the cream, #79B8D8 on the dark. He is fixed to the viewport rather than sitting in the page, so he cannot inherit anything and reads what is behind him instead. Scroll off the bottom of this band and watch him change back.
Where he came from
He is not a drawing. He is a JSON file: the body, the eyes and the way he moves are parameters, and there are six of him. The cube got the job because the round ones looked like every other assistant mascot.
All six, one definition and one shared set of expressions. Their own colours are not here: the pack gives each of them a hue and this site has one.
His right eye is smaller than his left, about 0.55 of the height. Before that he got the note "looks like grok bot", and the reason turned out to be the face rather than the body, since a matching pair of pale rectangles on a solid shape is the whole genre.
That is the whole of him for now. He stands in the corner, he turns his head, and he jumps when you click him.
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