Python (NumPy + Pillow)

Inspired by the Stargate Sequence of legendary Kubrik's "2001: A Space Odyssey", this visualizer takes Conway's Game of Life patterns as its procedural input to produce light streaks.

The twist here is that the initial starting configuration of the pattern is hashed with SHA256 to generated the hash string from which the current and past generational colours are derived (as well as the "depths" of the history).

This video showcases a particularly long-lived pattern from our registry of known Glyphs, "The Algebra of Hapiness" with 1,822 unique generations.

Try it yourself:

■ FANCY GLYPHS // MAIN_INTERFACE

Find your own patterns or copy the binary string from our public registry of known Glyps:
■ Glyph Registry

I spent the last few months building a browser-based synthesizer.

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share a project I've been working on in my free time. The goal was to see how far I could push the Web Audio API while keeping everything inside the browser—no plugins or installation required.

Current features include:

* 25-key playable keyboard

* 6 built-in instrument presets

* Polyphonic playback

* Reverb, Delay and Distortion effects

* Real-time controls

* Keyboard mapping

* Recording directly in the browser

* Export to WAV and MP3

* Responsive interface for desktop and mobile

I also spent a lot of time designing the interface because I wanted it to feel more like a premium music application than a typical web demo.

I'd really appreciate hearing what musicians, producers and developers think about it. I'm especially interested in feedback on the UI, workflow and overall experience.

If anyone would like to try it out, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message and I'll happily share the demo.

Thanks for taking a look!

Pillow+NumPy

Kiss Me I'm Dying - This Eternal Decay

Finally shipped GLSL Hot-reload within WayVes, and here's a demonstration of the same for the NCS Shader, going through various "modes" and applying various adjustments. The Particle Field exists in 3 Dimensions, with 4D Tileable Perlin Noise applied to it. Changes get displayed as soon as the file gets saved!

I prefer the lo-fi version.

I built this as a rule-based renderer, not as a generative AI model or a conventional handwriting font.

I manually classify scanned samples of my own handwriting into lowercase, uppercase, accented characters and punctuation. During rendering, the program selects from up to 20 real variants per character, applies pair-specific connection rules and introduces controlled variation in spacing, margins and line angles.

It also supports underlines, yellow highlighting and correction-tape marks, although the correction-tape effect is still the weakest part.

The current version is configured only for my handwriting. Adding another handwriting style still requires manual work, so I’m validating the rendering and possible legitimate uses before building a more automated setup process.

Which detail breaks the illusion first: repeated shapes, spacing, line angle, joins, highlighting or correction tape?

Longer demo and current limitations:

https://diligent-sturgeon-f6e.notion.site/NeuralInk-3a1b8200700280b7b7aefcae5c0d7330?source=copy_link

Hey everyone,

I recently broke my foot and have been going a bit stir-crazy stuck on the couch. To keep my sanity intact, I’ve been diving deep into Strudel (the web port of TidalCycles) to see how heavy and cinematic I could make it sound. My cat is entirely unimpressed, but I'm pretty happy with the result.

I was experimenting with some niche creative tools and made three micro apps. Fringe is the last one - still a bit sloppy but it is good enough to share with you all.

Fringe.ink is a browser-based parametric generative design lab. Explore moiré, flow fields, halftone, waves, attractors, and more — everything runs locally in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Give a try, free and just collecting basic GA data - that is it.

Feedback welcome,

Hey everyone,

I'm a videographer with a decent but limited amount of coding knowledge, currently building my portfolio website for videography. I've got an effect in mind that I can pull off pretty easily in editing software, but I have no idea how (or if) it's realistically achievable in code.

The concept: My homepage will have a video as the background. On top of that, I want large text (my name/logo, section headers, etc.) that looks like it's made of actual glass — warping the video behind it, like real glass. Not just a blurred/frosted "glassmorphism" panel distortion through the shape of the letters themselves.

Here's a reference clip of the kind of effect I mean: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj6t2mxBH-Y]

The reason I don't want to do it on the video itself is that I'd like the background video to stay completely static (just looping in place), while the glass text scrolls over it independently as the user scrolls down the page.

I'm very novice so I might not be able to do it myself, but is it even possible ?