Branching Seasons
2026 Visualization

Branching Seasons

One tree lives through four seasons. Spring blossoms, summer shades, autumn sheds, winter snows. Your fingers can summon wind and rain, or grant sunlight - but the turning of seasons, no one can stop. Inspired by Wen Yan.

About This Work

Trees are time's most honest chroniclers. Branching Seasons grows a cybernetic life tree through fractal algorithms and lets it experience a complete cycle of seasons on screen. In spring, particles condense into petals clustered on branches; in summer, foliage thickens into shade with light flowing through the canopy; in autumn, leaves warm in color and spiral down with the wind; in winter, all falls silent, with snowflakes catching briefly on bare branches. Inside the trunk, energy lines flow in eternal spirals - the tree's heartbeat. Swipe to summon wind, hold to bring rain, click to grant light. But what truly governs everything is time itself.

Features

  • Fractal-generated tree structure
  • Auto-cycling four seasons (spring/summer/autumn/winter)
  • Spiral energy lines in trunk
  • Particle canopies swaying in wind
  • Interactions: swipe for wind, hold for rain, click for light

How to Use

  1. Swipe mouse on canvas to summon wind
  2. Hold mouse to summon rain
  3. Click to enhance lighting
  4. Wait for auto season cycling to experience different seasons