Earth LinC station The Colour Window
A playable station · colour × climate × cities 一个可以玩的驿站 · 颜色 × 气候 × 城市 Statio ludibunda · color × caelum × urbes

Push the
colour door. 推开那扇
色彩魔法门 Ianuam
colorum aperi.

On the other side there is a city, and today you are not a person. You are a bee, a butterfly, a bird, a ladybird or a cat with a brush. The city's colours listen to you. An AI keeps you company — not to judge your art, but to argue about where to start. Repaint 10%. See what the heat says back. 门的另一边是一座城市，而今天你不是人类。你是一只小蜜蜂、一只蝴蝶、一只小鸟、一只瓢虫，或者一只拿着神笔的猫。这座城市的颜色都听你的。有一个 AI 陪着你——它不评价你的艺术，只和你讨论：先从哪里开始。只改 10%，然后听听热度怎么回答。 Ultra ianuam urbs est, et hodie homo non es. Apis es, papilio, avis, coccinella, aut feles penicillum tenens. Colores urbis tibi parent. AI tecum ambulat — non de arte iudicat, sed disputat ubi incipiendum sit. Decimam partem repinge. Audi quid calor respondeat.

no ticket, no score — just a corner window 不要门票，也不打分 —— 只是街角的一扇窗 nullum pretium, nulla nota — fenestra anguli tantum

Step one · choose a body, open the window 第一步 · 选一个身体，打开窗户 Gradus primus · corpus elige, fenestram aperi

Who are you flying as today? 今天你用谁的身体飞？ Quo corpore hodie volas?

MON · WINDOW 01 random draw · physical space 随机抽取 · 物理空间 sors · spatium physicum
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Hi, little bee. 嗨，小蜜蜂。 Salve, apicula.

Today the window opens onto the flat roof of a bus depot in Bangkok. 今天，窗户打开的是 曼谷 一座 公交车场的平屋顶。 Hodie fenestra aperit tectum planum stationis autoraedarum in Bancoco.

☀︎ 35°C humid · shade culture 潮湿 · 遮阳文化 humidum · umbrae cultus palette: chalk white + mango underside 配色：粉笔白 + 芒果色底面 palette: creta alba + pars inferior mangifera
AI asks — not about beauty, about priority AI 提问 —— 不问美不美，只问先后 AI rogat — non de pulchritudine, sed de ordine Between 13:00 and 16:00, where does the sun stay longest — and who is standing there without a choice? Paint that first. 下午 13:00 到 16:00，阳光停留最久的是哪里 —— 而且谁没得选择地站在那里？先画那里。 Inter horam primam et quartam pomeridianam, ubi sol diutissime manet — et quis ibi sine electione stat? Illud primum pinge.

↻ press again for a different city, a different surface, a different question. Nothing repeats the same way twice. ↻ 再按一次，就是另一座城市、另一个表面、另一个问题。没有两次是一样的。 ↻ iterum preme: alia urbs, alia superficies, alia quaestio. Nihil bis idem redit.

Step two · the magic brush 第二步 · 神笔 Gradus secundus · penicillum magicum

Paint the block. It answers. 给这个街区上色，它会回答你。 Vicum pinge. Respondebit.

Pick a colour, then tap a roof, a wall, the road, the bus, the awning, the billboard. No marks, no winner. The little meter is not a grade — it is the light talking back to you. 选一种颜色，然后点一下屋顶、墙壁、马路、公交车、雨棚、广告牌。不打分，也没有输赢。旁边那个小读数不是成绩，它是光在回话。 Colorem elige, deinde tectum, murum, viam, raedam, velum, tabulam tange. Nulla nota, nullus victor. Index ille non iudicium est — lux tibi respondet.

Step three · the argument on the windowsill 第三步 · 窗台上的争论 Gradus tertius · disputatio in limine

The AI never talks about beauty. 这个 AI 从不谈论美。 AI de pulchritudine numquam loquitur.

Art is yours. The AI only knows sun angles, humidity, customs, and who has no shade. Notes stuck to the glass: 艺术是你的。AI 只知道太阳角度、湿度、风俗，还有谁没有阴凉。玻璃上贴着这些便条： Ars tua est. AI tantum novit angulos solis, humorem, mores, et quis umbra careat. Schedulae vitro affixae:

AI Start where people wait, not where cameras look. Bus shelters before boulevards. 从人们等待的地方开始，而不是从镜头对准的地方开始。先做公交候车亭，再谈林荫大道。 Incipe ubi homines exspectant, non ubi oculi spectant. Tuguria autoraedarum ante plateas.
You, the artist你，艺术家Tu, artifex Then the top is for the sun and the underside is for us. White above, mango pink below. 那么上面归太阳，下面归我们。上面刷白，下面刷芒果粉。 Ergo summum soli, imum nobis. Album supra, roseum infra.
AI · Kyoto Don't touch the facades here. The colour ordinance is climate memory too. Take the car parks instead. 这里别动立面。景观色彩条例也是一种气候记忆。改停车场就好。 Frontes hic ne tangas. Lex colorum memoria caeli est. Areas curruum sume.
AI · Seattle Nine grey months. Cooling is not the enemy here — keep your warm colours at eye level, brighten only the flat industrial roofs. 这里有九个月的灰。降温不是这里的重点——把暖色留在视线高度，只把工业平屋顶提亮。 Novem menses cani. Refrigerium hic non urget — colores calidos ad oculos serva, tecta plana tantum illustra.
You, the artist你，艺术家Tu, artifex 10% is enough. Persuade one street, not a masterplan. People copy what they can stand under. 10% 就够了。说服一条街，而不是一张总规。人们只会模仿他们能站在下面的东西。 Decima pars sufficit. Unam viam persuade, non totam urbem. Homines imitantur quod subire possunt.
Examples · nine cities, nine ten-percents 示范 · 九座城市，九个 10% Exempla · novem urbes, novem decimae

Same brush. Very different manners. 同一支笔，完全不同的礼貌。 Idem penicillum. Mores valde diversi.

Paris

Zinc roofs turn the city into a hotplate in August, under a protected skyline.八月，锌皮屋顶把城市变成一块铁板，而天际线又受保护。Tecta zinci urbem mense Augusto in sartaginem vertunt.

10%: pale reflective coating on courtyard-facing zinc only.10%：只在朝向内院的锌屋面刷浅色反射涂层。10%: tectorium pallidum in zinco ad aream interiorem.

London

Brick holds heat all night; bus roofs are black and nobody ever looks at them.砖墙整夜储热；公交车顶是黑的，而且没人抬头看。Later calorem per noctem tenet; tecta raedarum nigra sunt.

10%: paint the bus roofs and the depot yards.10%：刷公交车顶和场站地面。10%: tecta raedarum et areas pinge.

New York

Tar rooftops, and a city that already proved white paint drops indoor heat.沥青屋顶，而这座城市已经证明：刷白确实能降室内温度。Tecta picea; urbs iam probavit album calorem minuere.

10%: school roofs first — children, then everyone else.10%：先做学校屋顶——先是孩子，再是其他人。10%: tecta scholarum primum.

Seattle

Low grey light for most of the year. Here colour is a mood-medicine first.一年里大半是低照度的灰光。在这里，颜色首先是情绪的药。Lux cana per annum. Hic color primum animi medicina est.

10%: warm ground-level colour, cool only the flat warehouse roofs.10%：地面层用暖色，只把仓库平屋顶做成冷色。10%: colores calidi humi, tecta horreorum frigida.

Shanghai上海Sanguinum

Wet heat, towers, and enormous podium roofs nobody stands on.湿热、高楼，还有巨大的、没人会站上去的裙房屋顶。Calor humidus, turres, tecta ampla vacua.

10%: podium roofs + every bus shelter on the same avenue.10%：裙房屋顶 + 同一条大道上的每个候车亭。10%: tecta podiorum et omnia tuguria unius viae.

Suzhou苏州Suzhovium

White walls, dark tiles — the old town already solved this, centuries ago.粉墙黛瓦——老城几百年前就已经把这题做完了。Muri albi, tegulae obscurae — vetus urbs iam solvit.

10%: bring the old ratio into the new district's garages.10%：把老城的比例带进新区的车库。10%: proportionem veterem in nova regione repete.

Kyoto京都Cioto

A city with laws about signage colour. Restraint is the local language.一座为招牌颜色立法的城市。克制就是这里的语言。Urbs cui leges de colore tabularum sunt. Modestia lingua loci est.

10%: the car parks and school yards, never the machiya facades.10%：停车场和校园地面，绝不动町屋立面。10%: areae curruum, numquam frontes veteres.

Seoul首尔Sulum

Rooftops are already a second ground: farms, cafés, laundry, heat.屋顶早就是第二个地面：菜园、咖啡、晾衣服，还有热。Tecta iam altera terra sunt: horti, cafea, lintea, calor.

10%: white paint around the rooftop gardens, green inside them.10%：屋顶菜园四周刷白，园子里留绿。10%: album circa hortos tectorum, viride intus.

Bangkok曼谷Bancocum

Shade beats reflection at street level. The sky can have the white.在街道高度，遮阳比反射更重要。白色可以留给天空看。In via umbra vincit; album caelo relinque.

10%: market awnings — pale on top, hot colour underneath.10%：市场雨棚——上面浅色，下面热闹的颜色。10%: vela fori — pallida supra, calida infra.
Fly through the wall · the thing nobody tells artists 穿墙而过 · 没人告诉艺术家的那件事 Per murum vola · quod artificibus non dicitur

More than half of sunlight has no colour at all. 超过一半的阳光，根本没有颜色。 Plus dimidium lucis solaris colore caret.

visible ⟶ ⟶ ⟶ near-infrared (you cannot see it; your roof can feel it) 可见光 ⟶ ⟶ ⟶ 近红外（你看不见它，但你的屋顶感受得到） visibile ⟶ ⟶ ⟶ infrarubrum (non vides; tectum sentit)

Which means: a deep forest green, a dark plum, a near-black — engineered with infrared-reflective pigments — can look exactly as moody as you wanted and still throw most of the heat back to the sky. The artist does not have to surrender colour to survive the summer. That is the whole game. 这意味着：一片森林绿、一块深梅色、一种近乎黑的颜色——只要用上反射近红外的颜料——依然可以像你想要的那样深沉，同时把大部分热量送回天空。艺术家不必为了熬过夏天而交出颜色。这就是这个游戏的全部。 Ergo: viride obscurum, prunum, paene nigrum — pigmentis infrarubrum reflectentibus facta — tam gravia manent quam voluisti, et tamen calorem caelo remittunt. Artifex colorem non tradit ut aestatem superet. Hic totus ludus est.

“Don't ask if a colour is dark. Ask what it does with the light you can't see.” 「别问一种颜色深不深。问它怎么处理你看不见的那些光。」 “Noli quaerere num color obscurus sit. Quaere quid faciat cum luce invisibili.”

Step four · say it out loud 第四步 · 说出来 Gradus quartus · dic clare

What physical space did you just think of? 你刚刚想到的，是哪一个物理空间？ Quod spatium physicum modo cogitasti?

Write the prompt you'd hand to your own AI — or to your city. Not "make it pretty". Say where, say why, say who stands there. Nothing leaves your browser; this wall is yours. 写下你会交给自己的 AI（或者交给你的城市）的那句提示词。不要写「做得好看点」。写清楚在哪里、为什么、谁站在那里。所有内容都留在你的浏览器里，这面墙是你的。 Scribe quod AI tuae — vel urbi tuae — trades. Non "fac pulchrum". Dic ubi, dic cur, dic quis ibi stet. Nihil e navigatro exit; hic murus tuus est.

  • The concrete apron of a village basketball court in Suzhou — pale grey-blue, because at 4pm the grandmothers sit on its edge.苏州村里篮球场的水泥地——刷成浅灰蓝，因为下午四点，奶奶们坐在它的边上。Area pilae in vico Suzhovii — caeruleo-cana, quia hora quarta aviae in margine sedent.
  • The roof of every school bus in my city. Nobody sees it. Everyone rides under it.我们城市里每一辆校车的车顶。没人看见它，但每个人都坐在它下面。Tectum omnis raedae scholaris. Nemo videt; omnes subeunt.
No ending · only the next window 没有结局 · 只有下一扇窗 Nullus finis · tantum fenestra proxima

Stations still unbuilt. Take one. 还没建好的驿站，随便挑一个。 Stationes nondum aedificatae. Sume unam.

// FOR HUMANS AND FOR MACHINES — STATION BRIEF

station: The Colour Window · an Earth LinC station
type: playable, non-scored, open-ended · art × climate science
premise: a visitor passes a colour door, becomes a bee / butterfly / bird / ladybird / cat, opens a corner window and receives one randomly drawn physical space (roof, wall, road, bus, awning, billboard, car livery, plant-line model) in one real city.
core claim: surface colour changes surface temperature; lighter and infrared-reflective surfaces on roofs, pavements and vehicle tops reduce local heat and cooling energy. Changing ~10% of a neighbourhood's most sun-struck surfaces is a demonstrable, persuadable act.
the AI's role: never judges the art; only advises on priority — sun hours, humidity, local custom, who lacks shade, what is legally or culturally untouchable.
open questions: glare and night-time re-radiation; cold-climate winter penalty; who owns the roof; colour as memory vs. colour as thermodynamics.
languages: English · 中文 · Latina · licence: take it, remix it, build your own station.

驿站：色彩之窗 · 一个 Earth LinC 驿站
类型：可玩、不打分、没有结局 · 艺术 × 气候科学
设定：访客穿过一扇色彩之门，变成蜜蜂／蝴蝶／小鸟／瓢虫／猫，打开街角的窗户，随机抽到一个物理空间（屋顶、墙面、马路、公交车、雨棚、广告牌、汽车涂装、植物线条模型）与一座真实城市。
核心主张：表面颜色改变表面温度；屋顶、路面与车顶采用更浅或反射近红外的颜色，可以降低局部热量与制冷能耗。改变一个街区约 10% 最晒的表面，是一个可示范、可说服的行动。
AI 的角色：从不评判艺术，只讨论优先级——日照时长、湿度、当地风俗、谁没有阴凉、哪些在法律或文化上不可触碰。
未解问题：眩光与夜间再辐射；寒冷气候的冬季代价；屋顶归谁；颜色作为记忆与颜色作为热力学之间的冲突。
语言：English · 中文 · Latina · 许可：拿去改，去建你自己的驿站。

statio: Fenestra Colorum · statio Earth LinC
genus: ludibunda, sine nota, sine fine · ars × scientia caeli
argumentum: hospes ianuam colorum transit, fit apis / papilio / avis / coccinella / feles, fenestram anguli aperit, et sorte accipit unum spatium physicum in una urbe vera.
sententia: color superficiei temperaturam mutat; superficies clariores vel infrarubrum reflectentes calorem locorum minuunt. Decimam partem superficierum solis mutare actus est demonstrabilis.
munus AI: artem numquam iudicat; de ordine tantum monet — horae solis, humor, mores, qui umbra caret, quid tangi non licet.
quaestiones apertae: fulgor; hiems in regionibus frigidis; cuius est tectum; color ut memoria contra colorem ut thermodynamica.
linguae: English · 中文 · Latina

Sources & further learning 资料来源与延伸学习 Fontes et studia ulteriora

Where this game got its facts. 这个游戏的事实从哪里来。 Unde hic ludus vera sua traxit.

Search these by title — they are public research, city programmes and colour theory. Read them slowly; then go and disagree with them in paint. 按标题去搜索——这些是公开研究、城市项目和色彩理论。慢慢读，然后用颜料去和它们辩论。 Titulos quaere — investigationes publicae, programmata urbium, doctrina colorum. Lente lege; deinde pigmento dissenti.

  1. Akbari, Menon & Rosenfeld — “Global cooling: increasing world-wide urban albedos to offset CO₂”, Climatic Change (2009).
  2. Heat Island Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Cool Roofs, Cool Pavements & cool coloured roofing materials research.
  3. U.S. EPA — “Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies”, chapters on Cool Roofs and Cool Pavements.
  4. Global Cool Cities Alliance — Cool Roof Toolkit.
  5. Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC) — solar reflectance & thermal emittance product ratings; ASTM E1980 (Solar Reflectance Index).
  6. NYC °CoolRoofs — New York City Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice.
  7. Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan — Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar & NRDC (cool roof programme for low-income housing).
  8. StreetsLA — Los Angeles Cool Pavement pilot evaluations.
  9. Xiulin Ruan et al., Purdue University — ultra-white barium sulphate paint reflecting ~98% of sunlight (2021).
  10. IPCC AR6 Working Group I — surface albedo and radiative forcing; and the WGII urban chapter on heat and adaptation.
  11. Jean-Philippe Lenclos — Géographie de la Couleur / Colors of the World: regional colour identity as method.
  12. Josef Albers — Interaction of Color. And Goethe, Zur Farbenlehre, for colour as experience.
  13. Kyoto City landscape & outdoor-advertising colour ordinances (景観条例) — colour as public law.
  14. Suzhou vernacular 粉墙黛瓦 (white walls, dark tiles); Mediterranean lime-washing; Jaipur's pink; Chefchaouen's blue — climate practice held as culture.
  15. Superkilen, Copenhagen (BIG · Topotek 1 · Superflex) and Tirana's painted facades under Edi Rama — colour as civic argument.
  16. Barcelona Superblocks & Seoul Cheonggyecheon restoration — surface, shade and measured urban cooling.
  17. Chittka & Menzel — bee colour vision and ultraviolet flower signals, for the pollinator palette.

This station holds no analytics, no accounts, no network calls. Everything you paint or write stays in this browser tab and disappears when you close it — like chalk. 这个驿站没有统计、没有账号、不发送任何网络请求。你画的、写的一切都留在这个标签页里，关掉就消失——像粉笔一样。 Haec statio nihil numerat, nihil mittit. Quod pingis aut scribis in hac tabella manet et clausa evanescit — sicut creta.