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.

Check out the presentation and demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34o10hsWovI

[this is a temporary project description page, I will move it to my own domain later…]

Motivation

I had a spark of motivation after seeing this tweet:

https://twitter.com/notwaldorf/status/1140336804026937344

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.

https://twitter.com/fredbaa/status/1205819492590178305

https://twitter.com/yishusee/status/1205820747379134464

Source code is now on GitHub.