Send to Receive is a WebGL particle animation that responds to SMS. It uses text messages to generate pseudo-random combinations of particle colour, background colour, size and speed to change the animation. It also uses a dictionary of colour words found via XKCD to find matching words in the text messages and use them to colour the particles.
You can see it running live here (you'll need a WebGL capable browser such as Chrome).
The animation is based on a THREE.js demo project by Paul Lewis / @aerotwist.
Send to Receive was created over two days at The Creators Project / Eyebeam #arthack hackathon. Read more about the other arthack projects and winners here.
By David Wolf with Twilio SMS integration & Sinatra backend by Jonathan Vingiano based on an idea by Crystal Butler.
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