PEOPLE, IDEAS & MATERIALS
Behind the Weave.
Creator
Created by Oana Rinaldi, whose practice connects art, architecture and algorithms.
Art & sound
The game combines original fantasy architecture, generated realm illustrations and icon artwork, a character based on MakeHuman assets, and CC0 environmental materials and models from Poly Haven. Its ambient soundscapes and interactive cues are synthesized in the game.
Foundations & further reading
Miegakure, by Marc ten Bosch is an inspiration for exploring a four-dimensional world through three-dimensional slices. Aetherfold is an independent project and is not affiliated with Miegakure.
N-Dimensional Rigid Body Dynamics, Marc ten Bosch, ACM Transactions on Graphics (2020), provides further context on higher-dimensional simulation. Aetherfold uses a simpler custom movement and collision system, not that paper’s full dynamics solver.
Further reading on four-dimensional rotations and hyperplane sections accompany the project’s research notes.
About this website
Realm illustrations present the game’s fantasy setting. Video panels show actual desktop gameplay. The campaign contains 136 chambers built from a set of recurring puzzle structures with different quests, geometry, and realm treatments.