▓ bsky supporters
Below are all the fine people who made a meaningful connection to this project. Thank you!
You too can be part of this. Just visit this post on BlueSky and like or repost it to automatically join as a supporter.
If anyone wants to show this on a projector as an installation, grab this QR code to let visitors enter the nucleus from their phones.
Human connection is what makes life special, yet modern times often seem to divide us. This little webpage aims to evoke a tiny sense of connectedness, no matter the physical distance between us. It's a visual representation of my search to bring people closer together.
░ 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.
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
Created by GoodBytes with feedback from Thrax — someone I've never met in person, yet feel connected to from afar.
░ 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 that was hard to describe at the time.
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, knowingly or unknowingly. 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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