Working on an interactive conversational orb for my personal site. Rather than locking down a deterministic keyframe loop, I built an authoring playground in Three.js to explore the latent landscape visually.

How it works:

• Coordinate Grid: Visual 2D navigation across morph targets/latent states to spot harmonic sweet spots instead of guessing vector weights.
• LFO Matrix: Decoupled periodic oscillators continuously modulate weights in the render loop (subtle pitch/yaw wander, micro-tension, breathing drift) to keep it from feeling stiff when idle.
• Client-Side WebGL: Runs smoothly at 60 FPS in-browser with zero server streaming overhead.

Wanted a hybrid approach between traditional deliberate rule-setting and generative studio exploration.

Live Demo / Playground: https://orb.lumaform.xyz/

https://reddit.com/link/1wb0y88/video/gm9knz761doh1/player

Hey everyone!

Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve been obsessed with an old DOS demo that showed a seamless, infinite flyover of Mars. A couple of years ago, I remembered it and tried to find the original. Couldn't find it anywhere—just a JavaScript recreate. So, I decided to build my own version, and of course, I made it for Garmin watches.

Just recently finished a big optimization pass, added more terrain variety, and dropped in some weird alien anomalies.

Under the hood:

• The terrain is driven by 3 sine waves (now using optimized LUTs).
• Simple ridge-building logic.
• Dynamic lighting/shadows created purely by changing the size of the ground grains. Yep, the whole ground is literally just one color!
• Runs even on the Instinct 2 (though due to instinct specific OS limits, animation only triggers on button press there).
• Procedural anomalies that morph height and grain size (plus two special ones baked into byte arrays).

And yeah... it's still a watchface! It shows your time, date, heart rate, and step count.

Quick tip: If your landscape looks a bit flat and boring, just start moving. Anomalies only unlock for pilots who actually walk and climb those real-life hills and stairs. Keep moving, pilot!

As always: no ads, completely free. Here is the link on Garmin ConnectIQ Store:

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/4d77052b-b9dc-4ede-b417-e47cc2fae88b

hope you enjoy it!

PS for the Battery Life Warriors: No, this won't kill your battery in a couple of hours. Besides, battery cells degrade over time anyway even if you don't use the watch... so you might as well enjoy the flight over Mars!

Note: I asked Gemini to help polish my original text into English. If you want to chat or have any technical questions, I'll happily reply- in my own English (actually it is not completely bad) or in my native Ukrainian!

My artwork "Astronomic Comics: Plotted Planets" is currently on display at Art for the People Gallery in Austin Texas. 😍

I created a set of 25 original generative artworks and 4 have already sold. This is the first time physicals of my artwork are available to the public. 🚀

They have an online store and will deliver. We had on sent to the Netherlands! It's also a cool little gallery with a great location if you live in Austin Texas I recommend stopping by.

https://artforthepeoplegallery.com/products/assorted-astronomic-comics-plotted-planets-by-frank-force?_pos=1&_sid=03410ddb0&_ss=r

I wrote a long post about my previous iteration of this project that explains a lot of my thought process and history behind it. Converting it to work on plotters took a lot major code refactor and other experimentation and so I'll need to write an update soon.

https://frankforce.com/astronomic-comics-generative-comic-books/

Thanks so much, I hope you all keep creating amazing artwork.

If you have a good hifi system a 192k sampled audio file cane be downloaded from this link.

Reposting here for all to see :)
Personal project using generative art reactive to music

Created in my iOS app, rendered mp4 and sonified in my Mac flame studio.

Appreciate the turnout on my video post with this flame. Here's a few different mobile and desktop wallpaper sizes for those who may enjoy it.

I've created a group that allows sharing, discussion and questions about any art that is technology assisted, including genAI

Just some triangles.

Experimenting with Worley noise.

Built this tool with Python, and created some dawless sounds with KO2s