> NEWPALMYRA is a Digital Archaeology project, collecting data from international partners, analyzing it, creating a reconstruction of Palmyra in virtual space, and sharing the models and data in the public domain. We are using digital tools to preserve the heritage sites being actively deleted by ISIS.
Yeah it's unfortunate they didn't mention the demoscene but if we're talking "OG", there's a history of media artists creating "dev art" that goes back to the same time if not further.
It looks like it's using a fluid solver. So, it's not that every particle is interacting with every other particle, but that there's a flow vector being established at each point on the screen and that's being added to each particle's position.
Disclaimer: I haven't actually analyzed the source.
Just FYI, Hall Effect sensors are pretty actually old school[1], simple sensors. The kind of thing that's easy to play with via an Arduino, for example[2].
(I don't know if it's what they're referring to, though)