In case it's of any help to the author, it basically doesn't run on FireFox 3.6.22 on Ubuntu 10.4. Completely unusable - pegs a core at 100%, takes minutes to do anything. A mouse click makes it change, but you can't "play" at all.
Which is a shame - it looks like it might be very impressive.
It got a lot better from 4+. On the other hand it works great on Chrome. Opera is a bit slow as well, not as bad as FF 3.6 (using Ubuntu 10.4 as well).
The source code is really small and quite readable. From the source:
var homeDX=this.homeX-this.x;
var homeDY=this.homeY-this.y;
var homeDistance=Math.sqrt(Math.pow(homeDX,2) + Math.pow(homeDY,2));
var homeForce=homeDistance*0.01;
var homeAngle=Math.atan2(homeDY,homeDX);
It seems it is just using gravitational like force, where a point is attracted to its original position. So I guess it is a more common effect for particles.
Definitely a common effect. I remember seeing this kind of thing in the demoscene a lot of times. In fact I remember seeing a larger evolution of this recently.
What they did is used smooth particle hydrodynamics to simulate water, but then also use the text mesh as a local attractor. So the water would drip onto the invisible mesh, but then it would stick to the text just a bit more than normal allowing the words to form.
I miss that old classic stuff. Old animations with absurd graphics for the time. An S3M or MOD playing in the background. Really ground-breaking stuff. One of the classics:
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Which is a shame - it looks like it might be very impressive.
It got a lot better from 4+. On the other hand it works great on Chrome. Opera is a bit slow as well, not as bad as FF 3.6 (using Ubuntu 10.4 as well).
What they did is used smooth particle hydrodynamics to simulate water, but then also use the text mesh as a local attractor. So the water would drip onto the invisible mesh, but then it would stick to the text just a bit more than normal allowing the words to form.
Link: http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/
Second Reality by FUTURE CREW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCW-axRJV8