The whole point is to just be some place you can visually relax.
Keep it simple, it's for your enjoyment. This is interactive art designed to showcase the beauty of math. The flowers, light and movement all run on the same simple equations that describe how things actually grow and glow in the real world.
Explore the different modes and see what you find...
Use your fingertips or mouse, the site is designed to respond differently based on how you interact with it. No two sessions will ever be the same.
Blooms are built from radial gradients that glow and pulse like real starlight fading into the night sky. All petals and colors are randomized, like snowflakes, no two are alike.
Kelp swaying in a current. Cherry blossoms tumbling as they fall. Smoke curling upward. Auroras unfurling across the sky. Brought to life by a simple wave equation.
The firework sparks fall with real calculated gravity. Bezier curves shape the paths of jellyfish tentacles and kelp fronds. The math brings them to life.
Nothing lasts forever. Flowers bloom then fade on a natural curve. Enjoy the transition as you continue to create.
We're not recreating nature. We're borrowing its cheat codes to make things we couldn't pull off on our own.
Each mode visually explores different types of life through math. The way light travels, smoke rises, water drifts, and petals fall.
Explore the Northern Lights as waves and motion.
Cherry Blossoms bloom. A midnight garden in Kyoto.
Return to the ocean floor. Bioluminescence.
Fire and light. Surprises ascending into the dark.
The northern lights have been explained a hundred different ways by the people who live under them. In Finnish tradition, a magical fox called tulikettu runs across the arctic fells, sending sparks from its tail into the sky. That's why the Finnish word for the aurora is revontulet: fox fires.
Sámi peoples have a deeper, older relationship with the lights. They're connected to the souls of the dead, a thin veil between worlds. Tradition says to stay quiet beneath them, to not whistle or point, to keep children still. The lights might notice you. In North Sámi, the word guovssahas means "the light you can hear," something scientists dismissed as folklore until researchers recorded the crackling sounds that accompany displays. With heightened senses the Sámi always knew.
The Norse saw Valkyrie shields reflecting across the sky. Swedes read the lights as a sign of good harvests. Norwegians said old maids were dancing overhead. Danes saw swans trapped in ice. Icelanders had their own warnings for expectant mothers. Greenlandic Inuit believed the lights were lost children at play.
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