Worldline Dancer: a dancer’s path through space & time, made visible

An interactive 3D piece about time. In physics, a worldline is an object’s path through space & time. Here a dancer’s worldline is visible: each pose she holds freezes behind her as a sculpture. You can grab a moment from her past and she flies back to it, scrub through her history, bend time with the sculpture’s handles, or split it into a new future while the old one crumbles into glitter. The cello follows her timeline and rewinds when she does.

Demos
A ballerina in a spotlight on a dark stage, a trail of her past poses in magenta and cyan wireframe arcing up behind her

Interactive 3D demo

Worldline Dancer

A dancer’s worldline, her path through space & time, made visible: each pose she holds freezes behind her as a sculpture you can rewind, bend or branch.

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