TRAXNYC
The Making of Tiger’s Eye
Form the stone. Collect the tokens. Keep the piece.
- 1Seed
- 2Force
- 3Time
- 4Light
Deep in banded ironstone, tiger’s eye starts as something else. Drag the seed mineral into the vessel.
Drag the correct specimen
The blue fibres are set. Drag the force that replaces them, atom by atom.
Drag the correct specimen
Compress the ages. Hold the dial — watch blue crocidolite turn to golden quartz, fibre for fibre.
0years elapsed
The fibres keep their parallel lines — that preserved structure is what catches the light.
It’s formed. Aligned fibres bend light into one moving band. Tilt to center the cat’s eye.
Cat’s eye centered — token earned
Tilt
Formation Tokens
Crocidolite
Silica
Deep Time
Chatoyancy
Crocidolite → Silica replacement → Tiger’s Eye → Chatoyancy