This page is a real-time composition built from four live data streams. Nothing here is decorative—every visual element is driven by data pulled from NASA and weather APIs right now.
The central mass is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day, sampled on a grid so the photograph's structure—spiral arms, nebula filaments, the dark of empty space—survives as the particle field's shape. Each particle holds its place and returns to it when disturbed, so the image's morphology stays legible even as it breathes. You're looking at its data, not its surface.
The orbiting clusters to the right are asteroids approaching Earth today, from NASA's NEO API. Larger asteroids make larger clusters; orbital speed maps to approach velocity. When an asteroid's closest approach is small, its cluster migrates inward toward the central body and bright filaments connect the two—the masses entangle. Hazardous asteroids glow red.
Turbulence and grain are driven by solar flare activity from NASA's DONKI database. A quiet sun leaves the field calm and stable; recent flares add drift, jitter, and noise. Flares run B (weakest) through C, M, to X (strongest).
Palette and volumetric fog follow live weather in Charleston, SC via Open-Meteo. Temperature shifts the color from cyan (cold) to magenta (warm); cloud cover controls fog density and grain; wind drifts particles laterally.
Move your cursor to push particles and shift the fog. The composition regenerates continuously. Tomorrow a new APOD resets the primary body and the asteroid field updates with new approach data.
Data: NASA APOD, NEO, DONKI APIs & Open-Meteo • Built by Wayne Intelligence
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