A Panicked Dinosaur
The project "A Panicked Dinosaur" is a real-time asteroid proximity monitor. Every day, it fetches live data from NASA's Near Earth Object Web Service (NeoWs) and translates the closest asteroid's miss distance into a physical and visual response — the closer the asteroid, the more the dinosaur "sweats," which is demostrated as droplet animation cast to the dinosaur by a projector. In addition, it includes a website designed to store and display history data, thereby providing users with a more intuitive overview. It is both a functional data display and a quiet joke: the one creature most qualified to monitor asteroid proximity is, of course, the one that didn't survive the last one.
*Since the author was unable to cover the costs of the virtual machine, the website has been shut down. Please refer to the first two images below.*
Programmer: Claude
