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

Built with/
- Canvas 2D
- Force-based physics
- Glyph sampling
- Spatial proximity graph
