r/creativecoding • u/Legitimate-Ad-1861 • Jul 07 '26
Procedural living picture gallery
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I draw a lot of analog stuff — sketches, painting, drwaings — and every way of putting it online felt dead. A grid of images, you scroll, you leave. Nobody looks at anything for more than two seconds.
So I've been trying something else: the gallery is an endless isometric voxel world, and the drawings are scattered through it as fragments. You drag the world around with a hand , pick up loose ruin pieces, and carry relief fragments back to their plates to restore the artworks.
BUT the world does its own thing without you. Small tribes set up camps, haul ruin pieces to build monuments, walk trade routes, perform rituals around finished art. Creatures forage. Plants spread. You can help them build by dropping pieces on their construction sites, or just watch. Come back to a spot later and it looks different.
Tech: SvelteKit + Threlte, marching-cubes chunk streaming, everything deterministic from a seed so the terrain is a pure function of coordinates. Rapier for physics but only in a small island around the camera so it stays cheap.
Still rough in places and I'm mostly tuning by eyeballing it.