▓ bsky supporters
Below are all the fine people who made a tiny, yet meaningful connection to this project. Thank you!
You too can be part of this. Just visit this post for some info.
The connections we make to other humans are what makes life special. In these modern times, we often seem to be more disconnected from each other than ever. This project hopes to evoke a tiny feeling of connectedness towards others on this planet, no matter how far apart we are. I've been looking for ways to bring people more together to eachother. This is just the visual output of that search.
░ What is this?
This project aims to visualize connections between people, right here and now. Every time someone visits this page, a new nucleus is created that gravitates and becomes one with the center nucleus.
The more people visit this page, the bigger the nucleus becomes. My hope is to instill a feeling of being connected to people we'll never meet, by being in this space together while being physically far apart at the same time.
░ Technical info
This project was built in three.js with a custom GLSL-shader.
It uses GSAP for the animations.
Web sockets are triggered every time there is a new visitor on the page in order to show live nuclei on screen.
The Bluesky API is used to fetch the fine people who support this mess.
░ Copyright & Thanks
This project is in no way related to or endorsed by Studio Olafur Eliasson ©.
Music by Dream-Protocol and SamuelFJohanns via Pixabay
░ Inspiration
The inspiration to build this came after visiting Olafur Eliasson's studio in Berlin. His art often explores themes of human perception and environmental awareness.
My visit was rather accidental and I was not aware of his work before, even though I visited installations of him without realizing the underlying context.
Together with two of my students I helped code a solution for one of his projects and that's how we ended up in the studio with their team during lunchtimes, which had an impact on me that's hard to describe.
In his art practice, he tries to connect all moving parts through a shared lunch with their whole multidisciplinary team.
Being a cook myself I was taken aback by the way they connected through food. I hope to one day connect people in a similar way, this is just a first and tiny attempt at that.
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