This piece, inspired loosely by the novel "The shockwave rider" by John Brunner, takes a fluid simulation program and hacks the differential equations so that they become unstable. This causes shock waves to occur.
The resulting artworks depict the turbulent waves of change of our time, especially in the digital world, that we must surf and run to keep our equilibrium.
The novel was the origin of the term "worm" as a name for a self-replication program that propagates over the internet. Worms appear in this artwork on occasion, but do not replicate...

The work uses WebGL and so benefit from display on a computer that has a GPU.
Based on the WebGL fluid flow code of Pavel Dobryakov (reused and modified by permission).

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