<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Axo is an abstraction of the human mental condition.<br>Each work has neurons. Each neuron has a nucleus at its source and fires electrical signals searching for synaptic connections.<br>The signals, or in this case, pixels, act in accordance with the current mental state, which periodically enters states of stress, awareness, re-centering, reprogramming, and more.<br>Each Axo can be connected with and influence other works in the collection. Awareness can spread and evolve the network, or stress can cause chaos.<br>Axo opens a dialogue on personal growth and societal change at the intersection of cognitive science, art, and technology, inviting us to envision a better existence and a harmonious network, utopia is only a shift in perspective away.<br>Axo is fully responsive &amp; built using my pixel-easing algorithm. Pure javascript. 19kb.<br>Interactivity<br>Each Axo has a default state, though the viewer can also take control and influence its state of mind using the following keys:<br>"a" =&gt; awareness<br>Toggles awareness<br>"f" =&gt; freak out<br>Toggles a freak out.<br>"p" =&gt; stuck in past<br>Toggles being stuck in the past. May not do much while in awareness.<br>"c" =&gt; centered<br>Toggles centering the state of mind.<br>"d" =&gt; disabled fate<br>Disabled fate disables any auto-state changes, so the state of mind will only change with interaction.<br>"w" =&gt; willed experience<br>Axo can be curated by the viewer and replayed later. By pressing W, all interactions up to that point will be collected and the work will reload with a new link that can be saved and replayed at any time.<br>"0-9" =&gt; rigid pathways at specified reprogramming<br>Axo’s current state can be preserved at any of the first ten states of mind. If a viewer were to press 8, Axo would flow through the first seven changes, then stop at the 8th state change.<br>"z" =&gt; scale up<br>"x" =&gt; scale down<br>Scale up/down to view in more detail, improve performance, or just gain a different perspective.<br>"s" =&gt; save a still<br>Each Axo can be curated using the keyboard, query string, and/or programmatically posting messages from a host page.<br>Axo is an art project by S. Ryan O'Connor, aka jiwa.</span></p>