Yesterday I started with that little moving square program that I showed last week, and just started randomly playing with it. I wanted to add something that had a kind of autonomous behavior.
So I changed the square to a round dot, which you can still control. And then I added a thousand other dots around it, which respond to your presence. Kind of like you’re surrounded by a crowd.
But you don’t really feel like you are surrounded unless people are staring at you. So I added eyes to the other little dots. And then, to make sure all those dots felt alive, I made their eyes blink.
The result is kind of cool, if a little paranoid. You can play with it here.