Experiment · Andes Developers
The cloud
It is not a video. It is thousands of points taken from a photo of a real cloud, moved by code in your browser. Push them. Click and watch the ripple. They always find their way back.
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Why a cloud
It is never still, and it is still a cloud.
- 01
A cloud changes shape all the time. It stretches, breaks, gathers again. It doesn't stop being what it is.
- 02
That is how we work on a website: it isn't finished the day it goes live. We measure it, adjust it and improve it a little every week.
- 03
And it doesn't last. The shape it has now won't come back. Everyone who touches it leaves it different.
Experiment 01 · Inside
4,608 points held by springs.
We start from a real photo of a cloud. On top of it sits an invisible grid of 96 by 48 points.
Each point is tied to its place by a spring. The cursor pushes the points aside and takes vapor out of the middle. The spring brings them back slowly.
A soft noise keeps nudging them, so the cloud breathes even when nobody touches it. The graphics card draws it, sixty times a second.
Each dot is one of the 4,608. The line shows how far you pushed it. Where the dot fades, the vapor is gone.
- points out of place
- 0 / 4,608
- vapor you took out
- 0 %
Experiment 02 · Wind
It comes apart and comes back.
A gust crosses the cloud from left to right and tears it. Nobody puts it back together: the springs do it on their own.
Experiment 03 · Never the same
One photo, three skies.
It is the same photo in all three. Only two numbers change: how much it bends and how fast.
Calm
bend 10 · speed 0.5
Breeze
bend 24 · speed 1
Whiteout
bend 60 · speed 2.6
What this has to do with a hotel
The same care goes into your hotel's website.
A cloud doesn't sell rooms. But whoever makes it is the one measuring every second of load time, every Google search and every booking that goes to Booking. That is what we do for hotels and lodges in Patagonia.
This is an experiment.
We'll keep changing it, like the cloud.