TE TAKA O AHORANGI — the digital body

Te Tinana · the form — full orbit, full zoom, zone isolation

skin makawe: eyes ink

nib flow smoothing

kākahu · the gear: cloth flax

te taka · the warrior:

FULL BODY

drag · turn & tip — scroll · zoom — tap a spot · zoom goes there — pen down on skin · lay the moko

the template pool — touch one to lay it on the zone

NGĀ MOKO — the master faces · touch one to pin it beside you as the reference

NGĀ RĀRANGI TŪTURU — the true lines · the whare's own ancestral line-work, faithful · touch one, then touch the body where it lands

real width (cm) screen calibrate slide x slide y

Strokes are kept as living lines, not pixels. Every line you lay is remembered as geometry — change the skin colour and the moko re-sits itself, zoom to any depth and it re-draws crisp, flatten a zone for print and it renders at print sharpness. No jagged edges, ever. The save is real: it keeps on this device and waits for you.

Te Whitinga · the way out — project, print, product

one

Moko the form

Full body or isolated zone. Spin it, tip it, zoom to the detail. The pen is live on the skin.

two

Flatten the zone

"Flatten zone · print file" unrolls the skin of the active zone into one clean sheet — the whole moko, edge to edge, print-ready at any size.

three

Project true-scale

The sheet opens at real centimetres. Calibrate once with a ruler, set the real width, lay the device on wood, stone, plastic — or hold it beside the client — and trace the light.

four

Export the view

"Export view PNG" captures the form as it stands — the hero shot for the portfolio, the socials, the shop listing.

five

Save, come back

The whole moko — every zone — saves to this device. Close everything. It waits.

six

To the shop

The flattened sheet and the hero shot are the product files — pattern pack, design listing, client spec. Nothing to something, on your shelf.

Te Mastercode · the physics ledger of the digital flesh — every part broken out

What this creation is and its purpose, from the eye outward. Each part: its physics, its science, and what that means in the digital.

te karu · the eye

Optics → camera

Physics: light bent through a lens forms an image on the retina. Science: perspective projection — the world collapses to a plane through a focal point. Digital: the PerspectiveCamera — focal length 38°, rays cast from your eye through every pixel. Tap-to-zoom is the fovea: you look, the eye goes there.

te tinana · the body

Mass & bone → mesh

Physics: a skeleton held by fascia, skin stretched over muscle. Science: vertices, faces, normals — a surface of points in 3-space. Digital: the lathe-grown torso, the sculpted skull, cylinder limbs with hands and fingers — thousands of points holding the human form true at any zoom.

te taka · the gyro

Rotation → orbit

Physics: angular momentum; a body turns about its pito. Science: rotation about two axes — azimuth and elevation, clamped so it never flips. Digital: drag turns, drag tips overhead and underfoot, scroll zooms, spin-or-hold — the whole body on a centre-point gimbal, locked to its pito.

te kiri · the skin

Surface → texture

Physics: skin is a wrapped membrane; pigment sits in it. Science: UV mapping — the 3D surface unrolled onto a 2D sheet. Digital: every zone carries a 2048-line canvas as skin; strokes live as geometry, not pixels — zoom forever, no jagged edge, re-sit the whole moko when the skin tone changes.

ngā holystick

Nodes → operators

Physics: the body's leverage points — crown, throat, hands, heart, centre, puku, feet. Science: anchored markers in 3-space, raycast-touchable. Digital: the eight atua operators seated in the flesh — touch one and it speaks its function. The body is the architecture; the architecture is the body.

ngā rakau · weapons

Held mass → parented geometry

Physics: a held tool moves with the hand — one frame of reference joined to another. Science: parenting — the weapon's origin pinned to the fist's coordinates. Digital: taiaha, mere, kotiate drawn true, seated in the right hand, riding every turn; wood, bone, and stone as material law — roughness, hue, weight of look.

ngā kākahu · clothing

Drape → layered lathe

Physics: cloth hangs under gravity from the shoulders. Science: a second surface over the first, profiled to drape. Digital: piupiu, pari, korowai, tee, shorts — gear swapped live, ancestral to contemporary; the korowai wraps the torso like woven weight.

te reo · the voice

Sound → signal

Physics: pressure waves in air. Science: frequency, amplitude, timbre — the utterance as waveform. Digital: the voice engine — pitched by the atua scales; whā breathes the loop, tū stills it. One utterance and the sky stands still: the render loop holds its breath.

te kēmu · the game

Play → rules loop

Physics: choice under constraint. Science: state, rules, input, update, render — the loop every game is. Digital: the same flesh, with rules seated: the kapahaka stage already proves the loop; the game is the body with stakes.

te koru · the whole

System → spiral

Physics: every output feeds the next input. Science: the rangiatea metric — line bent to curve, automatic, guaranteed, wherever it has access. Digital: Rangi to Papa, the spiral world forming in between. This body is that metric standing up.