Red The Ocean Around U

Billy was the technical director and developer the frontend and backend for the computational art project Red The Ocean Around U for CROSSLUCID's commission for LAS Art Foundation. The design was led by Felix Luke.

The was developed using Next.js, RunPod, Three.js, and Supabase.

"Red the Ocean Around U proposes a non-linear narrative through an interactive and generative digital environment. The visitors are invited to participate on a journey through those oneiric landscapes, which will lead them to multiple endings. No pathway is the same. The story grows with their interactions. The visitor becomes U, a character who has to decide whether to adopt or return two stolen creatures. U is guided by the questions of Claude, an otherworldly character, itself a Large Language Model (LLM)." - LAS Art Founbdation

The site presents several pre-generated videos by CROSSLUCID, with the core of the project in the "Healing Spring", which generates an evolving AI environment in the browser in real-time. The experience is shared, with all users receiving a live feed of the environment, driven by communal interactions with the website.

The project involved close collaboration with CROSSLUCID to deploy a custom serverless AI image generator for their AI image generation workflow. The AI is fed many user inputs from the front-end to drive the image generation. It has several short-term and long-term memories, containing various texts and symbols, which accumulate over the project's lifetime.

There is a unique downloadable PDF version of the narrative arc of the users journey at the end of the user journey.