Virtual Reality Art by Kevin Mack
Anandala is a virtual, abstract art installation unconstrained by the limits of reality. It is designed to inspire awe, engage the imagination, and enhance well-being through shape, color, motion, sound, spatial presence, and perpetual novelty. Visitors explore a vast three-dimensional mandala of evolving shapes and colors with the freedom of personal flight, like flying in a dream.
Abstract, artificial life entities, called Blorts, inhabit Anandala. Each shape-shifting Blort is unique and exhibits complex emergent behavior. Blorts express themselves and interact with visitors and each other through their movement, changing color textures, and their own musical language. Their purpose, form and function are aesthetic and beneficial. The Blort's Intrinsically motivated behavior is performed for its own sake, and not in pursuit of extrinsic goals. Anandala invites visitors to observe, interact, and emotionally connect with benevolent, creative lifeforms and explore their natural habitat.
Anandala's labyrinthine structure is built on three concentric, connected, icosahedrons that form a five-dimensional representation of the most complex of the Platonic solids.
Anandala combines the Sanskrit words, Ananda (bliss) and Mandala (a geometric figure representing the Universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism).
The processes and inspirations behind Anandala may be complex, but the intention is simple, to engage the imagination and inspire a transcendent experience of profound beauty, mystery and awe.
Abstract, artificial life entities, called Blorts, inhabit Anandala. Each shape-shifting Blort is unique and exhibits complex emergent behavior. Blorts express themselves and interact with visitors and each other through their movement, changing color textures, and their own musical language. Their purpose, form and function are aesthetic and beneficial. The Blort's Intrinsically motivated behavior is performed for its own sake, and not in pursuit of extrinsic goals. Anandala invites visitors to observe, interact, and emotionally connect with benevolent, creative lifeforms and explore their natural habitat.
Anandala's labyrinthine structure is built on three concentric, connected, icosahedrons that form a five-dimensional representation of the most complex of the Platonic solids.
Anandala combines the Sanskrit words, Ananda (bliss) and Mandala (a geometric figure representing the Universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism).
The processes and inspirations behind Anandala may be complex, but the intention is simple, to engage the imagination and inspire a transcendent experience of profound beauty, mystery and awe.
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