Wave Atlas
Wave Atlas is a water world teeming with artificial digital life, which users simultaneously create and discover. The more users who interact, the richer and more complex this ecology grows.
Using pinch-and-drag hand gestures tracked via Leap Motion sensors or triggers and movements via HTC Vive controllers, users create segmented swimmers that they can set free in a virtual ocean expanse. Once released, the creatures play and interact, glittering sculptures in a digital current.
The creatures of Wave Atlas are inspired by nudibranchs and leafy seadragons, marine animals with arresting color patterns and an astonishing array of forms.
Wave Atlas is on exhibit since June 2019. This work was originally created for The Tech Interactive in San Jose, CA with funding from the Knight Foundation
