Welcome to the world of 14islands Hack Days, where brilliant minds come together to push the boundaries of technology, explore new possibilities, and create groundbreaking solutions. Our hack days offer a unique platform for collaboration, learning, and, most importantly, having fun while doing what we love.

Here are our latest team hacks, spanning development and design experiments.

Chaos to a sphere and back

Dividing a mesh into triangles and morphing their positions between a random value and their final placement on a sphere surface. View demo

Infinite WebGL marquee

Using GLSL shaders to create a seamless loop of text across the screen. Rendered using r3f and troika for variable text input. View demo

Plane

Applying a 2D Perlin noise on a overlay to reveal a scene behind it in a cool way. View demo

Remind me — What’s the season?

Exploring WebGL shaders through a dynamic microsite that immerses you in the current season, accompanied by evocative seasonal poems crafted by ChatGPT.

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Our AI mascot

An alien sitting by the pool wearing a sombrero drinking a Mai Tai, generated by AI (Midjourney).

Pollenpalooza

Site and content generated by AI (Framer). Images generated by AI (Midjourney). The blog posts’ content and some copy tweaks by AI (ChatGPT). Particles and edits by human. Visit the site

Neon noise

Creating generative neon noise motion patterns directly on the fragment shader.

Building a chatbot powered by the OpenAI API

Exploration around the OpenAI API, learning the basics to be able to set everything up and stream the response on the fly. In this example, Cashew the office dog, is acting as the assistant.