# A love story

> An illustrated relationship-data story pairs miniature human figures and sketched settings with population grids, trend charts, and a house-shaped diagram, comparing relationship quality, duration, and shared connections.

- Kind: Interactive reference
- Live interactive reference: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/exp-love-story/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/exp-love-story/agent.txt
- Authorship: Not stated
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Interactive explainers; scrollytelling, pictogram charts, clay-like characters, dark plum, editorial data visualization, hand-drawn accents
- Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions.
- Shared by Alvin Chang in Website: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/
- Prompt fidelity: Unavailable in this entry. The recreation brief is written by Reference.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this interactive reference

This is a visual reference. No original creator prompt is available. The following brief was written by Reference after inspecting the work.

Use textured human miniatures as both individual story characters and repeated units in population charts, preserving the connection between personal experience and aggregate data. Repeat category colors across figure groups, compact legends, and inline highlighted words, then alternate expansive data fields with narrow prose and thin-line charts. For a new subject, replace the relationship narrative, character props, grouping labels, and measurements while retaining this individual-to-population visual structure.

1. Open the live work or source and inspect the frame images below.
2. Adapt its layout, hierarchy, palette, and interaction patterns to the user's own content and brand.
3. Compare the result against the reference. Use your own assets and credit the original creator.

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator.

Dark, minimal data-journalism style with small illustrative accents.

- Color: Near-black aubergine backgrounds with magenta, violet, muted gray, and occasional gold.
- Type: Small monospace section headings paired with compact sans-serif body text.
- Framing: Wide fields of miniature people form color-coded population charts; intimate character scenes and narrow reading columns provide contrast, with black narrative panels over selected scenes.
- Structure: An editorial story on relationships, arranged in sections with data visualizations, explanatory text, and simple character illustrations.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the captured walkthrough: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 4.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 7.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 9.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 12.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 15.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 18.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 20.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 23.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-love-story/f9.webp

## Links

- Open reference: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/
- Original post: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/
- Claymation clothes: Amanda Sakuma: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/#content