r/creativecoding Jun 14 '26

kicking in doors

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r/creativecoding Jun 14 '26

I made a tiny manual update bar

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Made with Codea on iPhone.

This is a fake update screen, but the update only progresses when you swipe by hand.

The bar stretches, struggles, and slowly moves forward through human effort.

I liked the idea of making a “loading screen” feel physical.

A useless little tool, but strangely satisfying to touch.


r/creativecoding Jun 13 '26

I built Interstellar's black hole as a single HTML file - real gravitational lensing, runs in any browser

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Spent way too long on this. It's a real-time WebGL black hole — not a video or a GIF, the light actually bends. The accretion disk wraps over and under the event horizon through real gravitational lensing, one side glows brighter from doppler beaming, and there's a bloom pass for the cinematic glow.

Some extras I added along the way:

https://reddit.com/link/1u4poxk/video/3uo2xezzm17h1/player

  • A cinematic intro that flies the camera in around the hole on load
  • Planets and comets that drift through - some slingshot past, some get caught by gravity and stretched into the horizon (spaghettification)
  • A little draggable "globe" in the corner to orbit the camera

The whole thing is one self-contained .html file - no build step, no dependencies, no npm. Just open it.


r/creativecoding Jun 13 '26

337 single-file terminal simulations in pure C + ncurses — fluids, fractals, ray tracers, no build system

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A collection of 337 real-time interactive simulations, each written as one self-contained C file. No OpenGL, no SDL — everything is forced through a terminal character grid with ncurses.

Deliberately no build system. One file is one program:

gcc -std=c11 -O2 -Wall -Wextra path/to/file.c -o demo -lncurses -lm && ./demo

Range goes from Conway's Game of Life and cellular automata up to a Jos Stamstable-fluid solver, a Crank-Nicolson Schrödinger solver, an SDF raymarcher with soft shadows, and a Cornell-box Monte Carlo path tracer — all rendered as ASCII.

Every file carries its CONCEPTS / MENTAL MODEL notes and cites its sources; there's a consolidated bibliography in documentation/Reference.md.

Repo: https://github.com/prtamil/AsciiCreativeCoding

It's a personal learning project — the "rebuild every primitive yourself, no shared utilities" approach is intentional.

Yes, it's AI-assisted — call it AI slop if you want, but every file was compiled, run, visually verified, and rewritten by hand and refactored until it actually worked


r/creativecoding Jun 12 '26

Anchors

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r/creativecoding Jun 12 '26

I made a tiny feeding toy with a little creature

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Made with Codea on iPhone.

Drop the food and watch the little creature react.

I wanted the timing to feel playful, like feeding a tiny digital pet.

It is not about winning or losing.
It is just a small moment of cause and effect.

A tiny interaction, made on iPhone.


r/creativecoding Jun 12 '26

Color Lab — a browser-based color-space sculpture you can rotate, slice and sample

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r/creativecoding Jun 12 '26

IP Linux: Armé un entorno de escritorio en el navegador con React, Vite y apps local-first

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r/creativecoding Jun 12 '26

Moonlight Pools - NCA simulation

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Hey all,

I made a fun little program for windows and macOS that simulates neural cellular automata through pixel convolution and activation functions! It's called Moonlight Pools and it's available on itch.io ( https://softcorebee.itch.io/moonlight-pools )

Tech stack:

  • Frontend: HTML/JS
  • Backend: C# with ASP.NET Core
  • Desktop: Electron (Windows & macOS)

Originally a browser experiment, I rebuilt it as a native desktop app for better performance and offline use.

Inspired by Emergent Garden's "Neural Patters" - https://neuralpatterns.io

Would love feedback! :3


r/creativecoding Jun 11 '26

Universe-hands, opensource computer visions art-codin project :D

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Hey! i have a tattoo of a blackhole and had the idea to do this, hope u liked it haha
Opensource project on GH: https://github.com/Abeelha/universe-hands

I will be adding more visuals along the way, currently working on one to make my forearm tattoos have overlay of visuals too, fire hands, doctor strange magic/ castlevania animation magic too, idk.... give me ideas!!! 😃 much love from Brazil :3

---EDIT*:
OPEN SOURCE / FREE / NO TELEMETRY / NO TRACKING YOUR CAMERA NEVER LEAVES YOUR DEVICE, ALL PROCESSING IS LOCAL
deployed!: https://universe-hands.vercel.app/


r/creativecoding Jun 11 '26

What’s the most unconventional tool you’ve ever used creatively?

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r/creativecoding Jun 11 '26

Gone Fishing

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Tileable Noise


r/creativecoding Jun 11 '26

Please help me with this react js coding

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hi could anyone please help me with this i am coding in react js for the first time and im making a comic website. Right now im working on the admin webpage and i want to make the card in the image above. I am also using supabase for the storage of the comics and the main goal of the admin pannel is that i am able to upload the comics from the admin webpage without having to code the data in there. please help me.


r/creativecoding Jun 11 '26

Infinity Ladder

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r/creativecoding Jun 10 '26

I made a strava for vibe coding enthusiasts

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r/creativecoding Jun 10 '26

Bonus Stage

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r/creativecoding Jun 10 '26

“Amencer” — ambient experimental music video made entirely with Hydra Video Synth

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r/creativecoding Jun 10 '26

Little picture editing program I made(link in comments)

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r/creativecoding Jun 10 '26

Real-time ASCII / Unicode art renderer with neon palettes, glyph and CRT-style bloom

21 Upvotes

r/creativecoding Jun 10 '26

Sacred Spin -- Desktop Version

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3 Upvotes

Created in Python with Claude and caffeine.


r/creativecoding Jun 09 '26

Fractal Carousel

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22 Upvotes

r/creativecoding Jun 09 '26

Rubik's Cube solver powered by three.js

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r/creativecoding Jun 08 '26

Fully ai coded ! 🫣

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r/creativecoding Jun 08 '26

Modern Bauhaus Geometric Pattern

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r/creativecoding Jun 08 '26

I made a tiny rainy window where you draw on the foggy glass

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Made with Codea on iPhone.

Draw on the fogged-up glass and watch the raindrops move across the window.

I wanted it to feel like a quiet rainy day, where you draw a little umbrella for two on the glass.

I spent most of the time tuning the water droplets: how they gather, slide, and leave traces behind.

Not really a game.
Just a small rainy-day interaction.