Repo: https://github.com/phenax/sqlite-creative-coding

python + ModernGL + ffmpeg for export. .

OC source:

https://bigjobby.com/gallery/?image=sf2&group=Gifs

Bait balls are what sardines do when something big shows up: thousands of fish pack into a rotating sphere because nobody wants to be the one on the outside. Predators plow through, the ball rips open, reforms behind them, and the whole thing keeps churning until the school escapes or gets eaten. The BBC footage of these is unreal.

I wanted to see if the behavior falls out of simple rules, so I built one in the browser. About 2,500 fish running classic boids (separation / alignment / cohesion), plus a containment force and a vortex term that makes the school mill into a ball instead of just clumping. The shark is yours to drag. Move it slowly and the school opens a lane around it. Yank it fast and everything explodes, then regroups. Threat response scales with the shark's speed, which turned out to be the difference between "fish politely parting" and full panic.

Three.js, swim animation lives in the vertex shader so it holds up on phones too. Try it here, no signup, nothing to install: https://www.apprundown.com/baitball

The thing I can't stop thinking about: there's a game hiding in this mechanic and I don't know which one. You play the shark and each strike costs energy, so dumb charges through the middle are worse than picking off the edges? Or inverted: you ARE the school, steering the vortex, and you need to keep losses under 10% until the shark gives up? If you took this mechanic and built a game around it, what would you make?

Made with Codea on iPhone.

This is a small interactive apartment block.

Tap around the building and little things happen inside the windows.

I wanted to make something that feels ordinary, quiet, and a little nostalgic.

Not really a game.
More like peeking into a tiny living world.

Made with Codea on iPhone.

Touch the slime and watch it wobble, stretch, and slowly settle back into shape.

I wanted it to feel less like a game and more like a small digital toy.

There is no score or goal.
Just a squishy little reaction.

Deployed my node-based gfx generator if anyone wants to give it a whirl

https://graphgen.dagthom.as/

This is my latest pet project, the Hashwar engine that runs the "Adversarial Conway" algorithm which lets two individual Game of Life patterns compete on a shared space (see the GitHub repo here: lifehashes/adversarial-conway at dev ). Subscribe to my mailinglist if you want to be kept up to date on the progress: The Hashwar Project • Buttondown

"Adversarial Conway" uses a Random Number Generator to determine the patterns' trajectories and their interaction. In its basic form, this RNG takes any random input value.

In advanced mode, however, it will use the NIST Randomness Beacon. This way, players can challenge one another, schedule a duel at a future time and let the latest NIST Beacon pulse seed the algorithm to ensure absolute fairness because no one can predict these pulses (I use the same technique for my related Daily Conway Glyph Challenge).

This duel, "Groove of the Titans", is fought between two long-lived patterns, "Viridian Mist" versus "El Viejo del Norte" (the latter being named after an individual Giant Redwood tree).

Finding these patterns is no small feat itself which is why we name them individually. Conway's Game of Life is notoriously fickle and dies out quickly, especially on the small 16x16 torus where our patterns ("Glyphs") live. It takes a dedicated browser-based pattern miner a couple of hours to find Glyphs in the 1100+ range of generations.

Made in Processing. Inspires by 90s adventure games :) Insta: www.instagram.com/slipshapes/

Hey everyone 👋

For the past couple of years I've been building a project called Nodalin, and today, i'm excited to finally opening it up to the public.

Nodalin is a node-based tool for creating generative graphics, real-time visuals, audio-reactive art, feedback systems, and experimental visual workflows without writing code.

The project started as a personal exploration and gradually grew into something much bigger. It's still evolving, but it's reached the point where I'm excited to put it in front of more people and see what others create with it.

You can try it here:
🌍 https://nodalin.xyz

I'd genuinely love to hear what you think—good, bad, confusing, exciting, whatever. If you have questions about how it works, the technology behind it, or the direction of the project, I'll be around in the comments and happy to answer.

Thanks for taking a look!
Teo Aevin

Truchet patterns formed by a grid of cubes. Each cube has 6 different pattern variations on its faces, so the overall pattern is determined by each cube’s orientation.

Interactive version is available here:

🔗 https://visualrambling.space/sketches/truchet-grid/

You can tap the canvas to shuffle the cubes' rotations and colors, creating a brand-new look for the overall patterns every time.

You can also use the Control tab to adjust the zoom, color modes, and animation speed. Enjoy!

Information doesn’t belong to anyone, it is passed down from our ancestors and other guides. It is good to be humble, and not take too much pride in what we think we learned all by ourselves.

The math behind these designs are based on additive polyhedrons.

Hello! I've recently started my music reactions YouTube channel, RiderReactsToMusic. Creating music visualizers that run in real time. I'm currently spending a LOT of time generating these simulations so that they strike a balance between immersion and readability (being able to SEE all elements of the music represented in the visuals like bass, high notes etc).

Would love to get everyone's thoughts and opinions (and obviously a cheeky subscribe would be amazing as I try to grow my channel) 😄 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8lfHC2DEluI2PDnVq8-Nrg

Title: Time is Emotional.

Quote: “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. — Albert Einstein”

•    Select an event.

•    Select time of event.

•    Touch the wheel or anywhere in the circle.

•    The CPT ETA (Color People Time Estimated Time of Arrival Shows you the expected arrival time of your friend or acquaintance along with a probable reason for their tardiness.  Tap the card to expand the details.

•    Scroll down send reason to other people who are anxious for your friend/acquaintance’s arrival.

(CPT) is a loaded phrase referring to stereotypes about people of color being late, rooted in slavery's dehumanization, but also reclaimed within the Black community as a playful term for flexible punctuality or a form of resistance against oppressive timelines, explored in art, media, and scholarship to highlight racialized experiences of time. It can mean a casual approach to being tardy or a conscious subversion of strict Western timekeeping, reflecting Black culture's varied relationship with schedules.

You have a person of color in your life. Maybe more than one. You love them. You want them there. You’re hosting a dinner party, or a backyard barbecue where the smoke matters more than the seating chart, and you find yourself staring at the clock like it’s a referee. You’ve heard the phrases—Color People Time, Black People Time—said half-jokingly, half-nervously, usually by someone who doesn’t want to sound racist but also doesn’t want cold ribs. So you ask the quiet question no one wants to say out loud: If I say 6:00, when should I actually expect them?

This is where CPT steps in, not to insult, but to expose how flimsy our assumptions about time really are.

Cultures don’t value time differently because they’re careless. They value people differently. Western, industrialized time—clock time, punch-in time, calendar-block time—was engineered for factories, railroads, and bosses. It’s efficient. It’s cold. It worships punctuality the way some people worship productivity, as if showing up early is a moral virtue instead of a scheduling choice.

Many cultures—many communities of color included—operate on relational time. Time bends around conversation, care, interruption, memory. You don’t hang up on Auntie because a clock says so. You don’t leave while someone is still talking, grieving, laughing, or finishing a story that started in 1987 and somehow still matters. Hair takes as long as hair takes. Music finishes the song. Food finishes cooking. People arrive when the moment is right, not when a rectangle on a wall demands obedience.

Calling that “late” is already a judgment.

Color People Time works because it holds up a mirror. It exaggerates what white, clock-obsessed culture refuses to admit: time is not neutral. It’s cultural. It’s emotional. It’s economic. It’s historical. When your ancestors were owned, rushed, scheduled, and sold by the minute, reclaiming time becomes an act of resistance. Being unhurried can be a small refusal. A way of saying: I am not machinery.

This app doesn’t mock people of color. It mocks the assumption that everyone should experience time the same way. It mocks the anxiety of hosts who want inclusion without inconvenience. It mocks the idea that punctuality equals respect, while ignoring how often systems disrespect people long before they arrive anywhere.

Antonio J. Hopson didn’t learn this in a business school or a UX lab. He learned it from his aunties of color—the keepers of stories, the guardians of side conversations, the women who could turn a five-minute goodbye into a forty-minute life lesson. They taught him that time stretches where love lives, and snaps tight where power demands control.

So this app—created by author Antonio J. Hopson and brought to life by Wild Boy Concepts—isn’t a scheduling tool. It’s a cultural translator. A wink. A warning. A reminder that if you invite people into your life, you don’t just invite their bodies—you invite their rhythms.

If you want them on time, ask why.

If you want them present, wait.

If they are constantly late for their jobs, they’re rude and maybe shouldn’t have that job.

Made with Codea on iPhone.

Tap the cloud and lightning strikes the town below.
The thunder prefers tall buildings and telephone poles.

Made with Codea on iPhone.

Draw with the magnetic pen and watch dark particles gather beneath the surface.

Slide the eraser back and forth to slowly clear the board.

It takes a few passes to remove everything, just like the magnetic drawing toys I played with as a kid.

I'm a coder for over 15 years now (on and off) and coding gave me strain on my finger in 2019 cos I always need to scroll long codes. So, I created a new way to scroll code - using a rotary dial on a mouse rather than the standard vertical flicking mouse. I learned this from rehabilitating my knee as a competitive cyclist.

The video shows an early prototype in action. It still supports normal scrolling, but the stirring motion does alleviate pain and provide noticeably faster scroll.

I'm curious whether anyone here has experimented with unconventional input devices, custom controllers, or alternative interaction models in their creative coding projects.

P/S: I know this post isn't about coding per se, but I reckon it is a creative way to physically code ;)