கடல்kadal
Kadal is Tamil for the sea. This one holds the things I make, from a lighthouse on the rocks all the way down to the abyss.
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அலை
The surface
Everything above this line is the sea you can see from the shore. Everything below it is the sea that sees you.
ஒளி
Sunlit zone 0 – 200 m
Light reaches here, so plants and corals can grow. Most of the sea's life crowds into this thin, bright layer.
விளிம்பு
The drop-off
The shelf ends and the wall falls away. The water below is kilometres deep.
அந்தி
Twilight zone 200 – 1,000 m
Only a faint blue survives, too little for anything to grow. Every night the animals here swim up to feed and sink again by dawn: the largest migration on Earth.
நள்ளிரவு
Midnight zone 1,000 – 4,000 m
No sunlight at all. Nearly every light down here is made by an animal. The lamp is on now.
ஆழ்கடல்
Abyss 4,000 – 6,000 m
Near freezing and crushing. Around the vents, whole communities live on chemistry instead of sunlight. A fallen whale feeds the plain for decades.
வரைபடம்
The chart
Everything in this sea, lit by an anglerfish.
Every island, fish and wreck here was modelled in Blender from code and drawn with three.js. Back to the surface ↑