Top Spiders-Crawling-All-Over-Your-Monitor Simulators 2017

April 9, 2017 1:25 PM

Mateusz Marpi Marcinowski is a prolific digital artist who makes trippy, psychedelic, abstract and sometimes interactive installations including a digital terrarium for colorful papercraft arthropods, weird ASCII creatures and living Dali landscapes. But here's what you really want: a toy to spawn endless procedurally generated arthropods all over your screen. You're welcome.
posted by byanyothername (8 comments total)

This really needs to be prepopulated with a lot of fast moving arthropods before I send it to one of my arachnophobe friends. BTW, have I mentioned I can be a real dick?
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:44 PM on April 9, 2017 [2 favorites]

with the spawning pool, if you move and click fast enough in a large circle, the oldest arthropods will disappear one by one as you add new ones and you can add new ones just where the old ones are disappearing, creating a constant undulating exoskeletoned semi-spiral
posted by idiopath at 2:03 PM on April 9, 2017

Funny. I just recently edited this video about Marpi. The brand that kind of paid for it overlaid the dumb title graphic at the beginning and the fabricated end credits (I have no idea who that person is credited for compositing, because I'm the only one who did any compositing).
posted by matt_od at 3:23 PM on April 9, 2017 [2 favorites]

Great video, matt_od!
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:08 PM on April 9, 2017 [1 favorite]

Thanks!
posted by matt_od at 4:51 PM on April 9, 2017 [1 favorite]

I want to play in the Dali simulation...without returning to St Pete.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:33 PM on April 9, 2017

So now all we need in the real world are scary arthropods that obey a mouse pointer.
posted by chavenet at 6:55 AM on April 10, 2017

Metafilter: BTW, have I mentioned I can be a real dick?
posted by Bukvoed at 9:13 AM on April 10, 2017