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Heat Metrics Lab is now public — nine chapters of scrollytelling about air temperature, heat index, and WBGT, each anchored on primary sources, with a JS↔Python drift gate holding 56× tolerance headroom, no analytics, deployed to Cloudflare Pages. The Anthropic-tooling counterweight to heat-protein-lab.
Heat Protein Lab is now public — eight chapters of scrollytelling about what heat does to human proteins, each anchored on a real protein with a real structure file, citations back-linked to PubMed, tissue claims sourced from the Human Protein Atlas, no analytics, no medical claims. This is the full ship retrospective: the chapters table, the phase-by-phase build log, what shipped vs what was cut, page weight, the Celsius/Fahrenheit toggle that landed two hours before publish, and what I would do differently if I started over.
Chapter 4 of heat-protein-lab is the visual centerpiece — a real human enzyme (aldolase A, PDB 6XMH) that falls apart on the page as the reader scrolls. It is also the chapter most likely to mislead. This post is about how I drew the line in code between educational visualization and fake science: three discrete 3Dmol style stages (cartoon → ribbon → wireframe), atoms that never move, a VISUALIZATION-NOT-MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS badge pinned above the heading, and a readout panel with deliberately fuzzy quantities.