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Interaction · Generative2026Live prototype

Orrery

A constellation that listens to your cursor, and remembers its name.

Live prototypeMove your cursor through the field, then press Assemble to pull it into the mark.
Initialising prototype_

The experiment/

  • Particle systems
  • Interaction
  • Generative

Orrery is a field of particles governed by simple forces, drift, attraction, repulsion, that respond to your cursor and can be commanded to collapse into a shape or wordmark. It's our study in making a logo feel alive without ever animating a logo.

A brand mark doesn't have to be a fixed shape. Orrery treats identity as an emergent state: hundreds of independent points, each following the same handful of rules, that can scatter like dust and then, on command, resolve into the Elkin Studio E, a word, or a form sampled from any glyph.

The physics is intentionally minimal. Every particle only knows the cursor's position and its own home target; the constellation-like connections are drawn between neighbours within a radius. Simple rules, complex behaviour, the whole point of generative systems.

It's a reminder that the most memorable brand moments are often behaviours, not images. People remember how a thing moved.

Orrery, a lab experiment by Elkin Studio

Built with/

  • Canvas 2D
  • Force-based physics
  • Glyph sampling
  • Spatial proximity graph
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