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Bringing the ancient oceans to life with Melius!
For this challenge, I created a short cinematic ad for a fictional prehistoric oceanarium featuring marine creatures from the early Cambrian period.
I’ve always been fascinated by how otherworldly these ancient organisms looked, and honestly, I really wish a place like this existed.
Everything was created entirely inside Melius, so there were a few limitations. I couldn’t fully color grade the video, manually animate the text and logo transitions, or use one continuous soundtrack, so please excuse the rough edges there.
Overall, I had a lot of fun creating this and hope you enjoy it too!
Project link here
Sharing some process in the comments.
Would you visit a place like this?
Love this!
You're welcome👍
wow, so amazing 🔥
Wow, this is amazing.
nice work~
Ur welcome
This is seriously impressive. If this truly did exist, I'll be staying home away from that Colossal Squid. Lol🙌
Lol! Oh good. 🙌 Nice job on this!
this is really cool
nice work!
expected nothing less from the best!
This is amazing
you're welcome
This is beautifully done. The creatures look genuinely otherworldly. I had no idea the early Cambrian period had such strange marine life. You brought it to life really well. And for something made entirely inside Melius with limitations, this is impressive. Would I visit?...
Wow! Interesting and Amazing.
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Visual Atlas
Explore public domain image archives as navigable visual landscapes instead of searchable databases.
Visual Atlas is an experimental infinite-canvas interface that transforms large public image archives into navigable visual landscapes.
Instead of searching through lists, folders, or grids, users can freely pan across a continuously generated visual space where related images naturally cluster together. The result is a more intuitive, exploratory way of discovering connections, patterns, and forgotten collections within massive image archives.
It can also be used for your own personal collections — images, screenshots, and visual fragments that otherwise slumber forgotten on your hard drive — turning them into a living, explorable memory space.
The Problem
Large visual collections are searchable, but they are not explorable.Many public image collections contain millions of valuable images, but traditional search interfaces often limit discovery to keyword-based retrieval and static browsing.
Visual Atlas explores a different question:
What if archives could be explored spatially, like places rather than databases?
By organizing images through semantic similarity and presenting them on an infinite canvas, users can navigate archives through visual relationships and serendipitous exploration.
Links
Live Project:
https://beneb85.github.io/visual-atlas/
Github:
https://github.com/beneb85/visual-atlas
Figma Community File:
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1647949199129256120/visualatlas-ui-prototype
Figma Make (only Canvas, without API Integrations)
https://closed-foam-24445324.figma.site/
Process
The project combines AI-assisted development, semantic clustering, and rapid interface prototyping with Figma, Figma MCP, Figma Make and Claude
Development Workflow
I used Figma to create the initial design then used Figma MCP to design the spatial memory system in Claude and Figma Make to rapidly generate and iterate the interactive infinite canvas prototype and interface, and refined it into a working memory exploration system.
Inspiration
Original canvas interaction concept with Spotify API by Chakib Mazouni
The project was also inspired by Eduardo Lunardi's tutorial on building seamless infinite canvas experiences:
Tech Stack: Vanilla single-file JS · Three.js · MediaPipe Tasks-Vision · Web Audio · IndexedDB · weserv proxy
Music Into The Deep by Pamela Yuen (Free Music Archive)
Licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY
Sources
The visual material displayed in Visual Atlas originates from public archive collections and source institutions.
Users are encouraged to consult the original source institutions for authoritative metadata, provenance information, and licensing details.
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Wow, this is cool
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