thisissand.com is a website for play. It changes the pixels on the screen into digital sand that can be used as building material for cosmic landscapes, Clemens-style sand paintings, and so on. I made it with Johanna Lundberg and Timo Koro in 2008.
The digital sandbox on thisissand.com takes after the physical one. Just like the actual sand gets its colour from its origins, the sand used on thisissand.com covers the RGB palette natural to digital environments. Also the sounds of falling sand resemble a real life phenomenon where the wind triggers a low-pitch sound in natural sand. Instead of nature's frequencies the digital sand generates white noise, which is considered analogous to white light, containing all frequencies like the RGB grains do.
Image: 'Tutanchamun' sand drawing by Kolibri
