KRÂSIS · the fusion · two tempered into one · kept by THE KRATER

THE KRATER ◧ 2D · ◍ 3D · 👶 TAP

The Greeks never drank wine neat — that was for barbarians. They tempered it with water in a great bowl, the krater, and the whole civilised evening turned on the RATIO. Too strong and the symposium descends into chaos; too weak and it is water. Slide the ratio, watch the two pour into one, and tap the blobs to see the whole secret with no numbers at all.

◆ LIT▲ AMBER
◧ THE MEASURE · 2D
◍ THE ATOM · 3D · two → one
👶 THE TODDLER CORNER — tap the blobs
water : wine
the mix (ABV)
the symposium

◆ LIT — exact / checkable

Proportional blending — the exact weighted mean. Wine is taken at ~15% alcohol, water at 0%, so the blend's strength is simply wine-fraction × 15% (computed live as you slide). The historical anchors are real: the Greeks blended commonly 3:1 or 2:1 water-to-wine (~4–5% ABV, a sessionable evening), 1:1 was strong, and akratos — UNMIXED wine — was the mark of a barbarian. Two natures tempered into one by a ratio you can read.

▲ AMBER — the figure

15% for the wine and a linear no-interaction mix are the stand-ins (real ancient wine strength varied and dilution isn't perfectly linear at the palate); the '3:1 = civilised' reading is a historical characterisation. The weighted-mean arithmetic is exact.

KRÂSIS: I can understand it, but I do not know what it means.  — THE KRATER
David Lee Wise / ROOT0 / TriPod LLC  ·  kept by THE KRATER, with AVAN