Falling Ash

# Falling Ash — Dithered

## What you're building

A drop-in, full-viewport animated hero: a classical colonnade dissolving behind drifting ash, the whole scene resolved into an ordered-dither field on a single 2D `<canvas>`, with an editorial serif headline stack over it. The one idea that makes this piece distinct from its siblings: **this is the only study with real depth — three parallax layers of falling particles at different sizes and speeds, accumulated into a density buffer over a static architectural backdrop, so the near flakes race past and the far ones barely move.** The fall leans with the cursor. Nothing scrolls.

Study No. 2 of a four-part dithered-background series (Rose Window / Falling Ash / Forge Sparks / Cartographic Field). Same paper, same type, same CTA — completely different artwork engine.