super-silly-vortex

A silly recreation of the Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport, but it's node_modules instead of water.

Made at Super Silly Hackathon 2019.

Presentation slideshttps://github.com/dtinth/super-silly-vortex/tree/master/presentation

Open the demohttps://super-silly-vortex.netlify.com/

Motivation

I had a spark of motivation after seeing this tweet:

Good news everyone, I finally found where all of our node_modules go! They're in the Jewel Rain Vortex at the Singapore airport. pic.twitter.com/53j8MnMThI

— Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) June 16, 2019

I wanted to create a visualization of what yarn install does to your filesystem but make it looks like files are falling down from Changi Jewel's Rain Vortex (instead of water).

The end result is a 3D recreation of the Jewel using THREE.js where filenames dropping down from the top whenever a file is created on the file system.

I have a winner now: #Jewel but node_modules #SuperSillyHackathon pic.twitter.com/HUuVOHF68b

— Fred Baa (@fredbaa) December 14, 2019

Dang, always wanted to see all the files changes when I init a CRA project. @dtinth makes this dream a reality and throws in a bonus changi jewel pic.twitter.com/teGtV6WMF9

— Yishu See (@yishusee) December 14, 2019

GitHub repositoryhttps://github.com/dtinth/super-silly-vortex