"Fireflies" which reproduced the appearance of fireflies dancing and shining brightly can experience the appearance of flashing a large amount of fireflies

ByRaph Su

Creators'Nicky CaseThinks the content which reproduced the appearance of the fireflies that flies through the waterside "FirefliesI made it. Rather than being shining randomly, the fireflies that fly through the page properly are shining at regular intervals according to the body clock of each individual, and the number of fireflies and the glowing interval can be changed. Also, there is an option "If the fireflies near me glow, the biological clock advances", you can also reproduce the appearance of fireflies in Southeast Asia shining brightly in the tree of mangroves.

Fireflies
http://ncase.me/fireflies/


Fireflies will flash when clicking near fireflies. Firefly will shine even if you drag as it is, so if you hover around the firefly with the clicked cursor, the firefly will shine continuously and flickering.


Firefly does not shine according to the signal of the leader, but it shines at constant intervals according to each body clock. Case reproduces this in the form that fireflies will shine whenever the second hand comes to 12 o'clock.


In addition, Case attached the option "Nudge the neighbor". This is a firefly near the shining firefly is a mechanism that the body clock advances a little.


In other words, if you are in a place where fireflies are densely gathered, the body clock progresses steadily as the surrounding fireflies glow, and the interval until the next shine becomes short. If you turn on this option and watch the firefly for a while, you can see that the fireflies that initially glittered at the beginning will synchro- nize with the group gradually becoming a group.


When you go further to the bottom of the page, you will see the number of fireflies (10 to 500), "Show clock (ON / OFF)", "Clock speed (slow to fast)" "Influenced by next firefly (ON / OFF) "" How much will it be affected (a little ~ a lot) "and" the distance to the firefly next to (close to far) "are prepared and various lighting methods can be done.


By the way, if you set "Display clock", the appearance of fluttering firefly will be displayed in the body clock, so how much firefly will be affected when you turn on the option "Nudge the neighbor" and how to synchronize I understand the process well.


Creator Nicky CaseWhile receiving assistance from nearly 400 patrons at creator support service "Patreon"We are producing such interactive contents. In addition, Fireflies is made public domain, and sources are released on GitHub.

GitHub - ncase / fireflies: Fireflies: an example of emergence
https://github.com/ncase/fireflies