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Durgadevi R
• 9h
WIP // Serial Lights ✦ Figma x Contra Makeathon Every Indian festival, families string thousands of tiny LED bulbs across their thresholds,peacocks, kalashes, dancing deities, temple arches and at night they chase, twinkle, and ripple like the whole street is breathing light.
I grew up watching these. And I realised something: this folk art exists almost nowhere on the internet. No one's digitised it. So I'm building it.
Serial Lights is an interaction where you paint with bulbs.
You drag strings of light onto a dark pegboard, mirror them into something symmetrical and impossible, give each string its own animation chase, twinkle, breathe, wipe and then you flip a switch and the whole board ignites, like a temple gopuram at midnight.
The interface itself is a love letter to desi maximalism: chunky keycap controls, a rocker switch that actually clicks, and a plug you push into a socket to bring the lights alive.
Right now (WIP, building live in Figma Make): → painting + true vector-pen light strings, evenly spaced on any curve → live mirror + mandala symmetry → 6 animation effects with timing + delay control, so you can choreograph a board light by light → the ignite moment, dead grid to living festival
Still building. Still breaking things. But watching a board light up one bulb at a time genuinely made me gasp.
Would you string up your own? What would you light first — 👀
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Sebastian Moreano Mesa
• 8h
great stuff
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Mcnove Pineda
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• 7h
This is a great example of creative problem-solving. The final experience feels very polished.
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