Frolic is meant to speak to your sensory memory and evoke the idealized calm and softness of a perfect summer day : the gentle sound of the wind, the touch of grass, the wave patterns of nature, the taste of a fresh fruit and the sun shining on your face.
This aspect of the piece is contrasted by the artificial look of the various elements : the grass is definitely fake, the flowers are just cubes and the insects are robotic. The volumes emerging from the ground are too perfect and the shapes on it are painted.
The memory is not reality, it's been idealized and lost its details. But that's just the visual aspect, your other senses are still quite vivid.

A real-time infinite animation blending various techniques, mainly 2D and 3D signed distance field sampling, and now old-school game technology with a classic shell meshing.

Best enjoyed on a decently large Full HD vertical screen.

Controls:
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- Press "space" to pause/unpause the animation
- Press "m" to toggle between interaction mode, where you can "pet" the surface with your mouse cursors+click/touch, and exploration mode where you can take full control of the camera. The camera controls are:
- Left Click+drag to rotate around
- Middle/Wheel to zoom
- Right Click+drag to pan
- Press "r" to reset the camera to its starting position
- Press "t" to switch between 2/3, 9/16, and responsive aspect ratio. Warning : the artwork is designed to be vertical, and so the responsive aspect (meaning it adapts to the browser's window) is there for collector who want to explore or get creative with the camera.
- Press "h" to enable high quality anti-aliasing. Warning : performance intensive
- Press "f" to toggle the frame on/off
- Press "c" to toggle the frame corners between square and rounded
- Capture & Exports :
Press the keyboard/keypad number keys from 1 to 9 to export increasingly large captures of what you're seeing. Start low and go from there, the files can get really big (hundreds of MB).


Perfomances:
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This artwork is quite dependent on the capabilities of your GPU and requires WebGL2 features, and as such, a fairly recent computer is recommend. The mobile version is quite degraded but should run on the more recent devices.
Best performances on Chrome.

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© 2023 Christophe Choffel
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, See LICENSE.txt for third party license information