Just Skedaddling — a generative particle artwork that calms the longer you leave it alone.

About Just Skedaddling

Just Skedaddling is an experimental generative artwork built entirely in the browser. A field of particles drifts, gathers and scatters according to a small set of rules. The central idea is simple: the less you interact with it, the calmer it becomes.

On a desktop screen the artwork begins with 180 moving particles, together with a small star field and four softly changing nebulae. The particles can form temporary connections when they come close to one another. Pointer and touch movement disturb the local field; after interaction stops, the system gradually returns toward its quieter state.

There is nothing to win and nothing to complete. It is an intentionally slow piece of screen-based art: something that can be left open, watched for a while, or ignored entirely.

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PROJECT NOTES

How a deliberately quiet website works

The artwork is a small study in state, motion and restraint. The source code is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no framework. Its visual state is generated in the visitor's browser rather than fetched from a database.

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