The alien alphabet: cluster names, and letters that are not quite ours

CLUSTERS — the 34 galaxy clusters were still labelled with raw medoid genre ids (chromepiston, sourdough) — never renamed.

TRANSLITERATION — 1-2 letters per genre/cluster name swapped for a visually-adjacent glyph — homoglyphic on purpose, so the word stays scannable where a random rune would just be noise.

• Re-rolled ONCE PER SESSION, not per frame: the star map measures label widths to decide which names it can draw without overlap, so a name that re-rolled between frames would make labels flicker in and out of…

• Both gates that broke were matching drawn text against the plain literal — the same stale-literal class as GX1/F2d. glyphs.js now exports deglyph() and exposes it on window; D2f and GX3 compare de-glyphed.

▶ Play it: Mother Culture Vigil → Camshaft Litany — a shuttle between the two genres this change names — the blend is the point https://stellate.app/?genre=sourdough&seed=5664&path=2141.12627,740.16243&xdur=0.193

b4eeb48 https://github.com/aboard-io/stellate/commit/b4eeb48869db4e64c72d1fdc62bdb62fdeaa9c1b