When creating this piece, I was heavily inspired by the concept of time and the cosmic imagery of colliding black holes. I wanted to capture that immense, gravitational pull where light and space warp around a singularity.
The foundation of the network is actually quite minimal, relying on simple sphere geometries that I stripped down and rendered as thin, intersecting rings. To represent the relentless, continuous flow of time, I used an LFO to drive the rotation parameters. This keeps the two central forms locked in a constant, inevitable orbital dance, even when the music is quiet.
For the audio-reactivity, I ran the sound through envelope and spectrum analysis, routing the data to control the scale and the tension between the intersecting shapes. As the audio track builds and peaks, the rings aggressively push and pull against each other, mimicking the clash of two massive gravitational forces.
The core aesthetic of this piece—that stretched, ethereal glow—was achieved entirely in post-processing. To create the illusion of gravitational lensing and accretion disks, I built a heavy feedback loop combined with subtle transformations and blurs. This setup smears the moving white lines across the dark canvas, leaving smooth, luminous trails that bend and fade into the void.
