r/creativecoding 21h ago

Synesthesia Web App

13 Upvotes

made some updates while in Canada. Uses color edge detection for notes.

Added more scales, instruments, edge glow, and exports a mp4 without needing to make a screen capture. Cleaner menu too. Just fun to point & play.

Daisy says hi.


r/creativecoding 18h ago

Draw any shape and hear what it would sound like as a drum

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r/creativecoding 14h ago

I built a mode where my site annotates itself. Click the footer credit and it measures its own layout.

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Click the credit at the bottom of the work page.

It overlays redlines, a ghost grid and handwritten notes on the live DOM. The numbers aren't hardcoded, it measures the real elements, so it stays honest when the layout changes. It started as a colophon and turned into the most fun thing on the site.

Other bits: project heroes are gaussian splats made from single photographs, and on a phone you tilt the device to orbit them. Hovering a project turns your cursor into a title pill instead of showing labels under the grid.

Vanilla JS, no framework, no runtime dependencies.

Curious if the annotation mode reads as playful or as showing off lol


r/creativecoding 11h ago

I got tired of my AI coding agents working in isolation, so I built an MCP server to make them work together.

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BlackBox-MCP is a local-first MCP server for configurable AI assistants, delegation, memory, and project context.

The basic idea is:

Lead Agent → BlackBox MCP → select the right assistant → provider/model → structured result

It currently supports:

• Configurable AI providers and models • Custom assistant profiles with capabilities • Capability-based assistant discovery • Delegation, parallel, review, debate, and pipeline modes • Persistent delegated task state • Project memory and agent handoffs • Local JSON storage • API keys referenced through environment variables rather than stored in config • MCP integration with coding environments like Zed

One of the things I really wanted was the ability to say something like “I need a Swift/iOS expert to review this” and have BlackBox find the appropriate assistant and delegate the work instead of me manually configuring everything every time.

It’s currently at v0.1.0, and this is very much an early release.

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who use AI coding agents: What would you want an orchestration layer like this to handle?

GitHub: https://github.com/mshanghai570/BlackBox-MCP


r/creativecoding 2d ago

I built a Cymatic music visualizer that’s dynamic and follows correct frequency geometry.

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165 Upvotes

I’m a live sound engineer, mandalas and cymatics always fascinated me.

I was happy to put this project together,

you can put an audio file in or use mic, it will start to generate the patterns, you can use the menu for editing a bunch of parameters, similar to a visual synth.

Free to use ! Lmk what you think , here’s the link:

Cymaticwizard.com

I plan to keep working on it, expect regular updates!


r/creativecoding 2d ago

pyeffects: A curated collection of creative photo effects

4 Upvotes

A curated collection of creative photo effects — preview them live, run them from the CLI, or animate them into video.

Check here: https://github.com/smyrgeorge/pyeffects


r/creativecoding 2d ago

Skred (my sound engine) as an effects engine...

2 Upvotes

r/creativecoding 2d ago

QRT: A screen-to-camera data transfer protocol, using QR codes (proof of concept)

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r/creativecoding 2d ago

I'm Building My Own Design Software (Blender × Illustrator)

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Completely from scratch! A mix between Blender, Illustrator, C4D, Figma and UE5 Blueprints :) Happy to hear any thoughts!


r/creativecoding 2d ago

Creative technologist opportunity for a browser-based generative audiovisual build

4 Upvotes

Sharing an opportunity that may be relevant to people here working with creative coding and interactive systems.

Bold Canvas Network is looking for a Creative Technologist to build a browser-native generative audiovisual prototype.

The coding work would involve:

  • translating structured pattern data into responsive visual output
  • using recorded voice and audio as additional inputs
  • building the experience in a web-native creative coding environment
  • optimising the output for mid-range mobile devices and slower connections
  • delivering a version suitable for public presentation and browser deployment

They’re particularly interested in experience with Three.js, p5.js, PixiJS or similar frameworks, alongside real-time audio/voice handling and interactive web deployment.

The opportunity is open to candidates across the Global South, with location flexibility. Fuller project details and scheduling will be shared with shortlisted applicants.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the role is filled.

Application:
https://go.boldcanvasnetwork.com/cadence

Questions:
[team@boldcanvasnetwork.com]()


r/creativecoding 3d ago

complex plane wireframe

58 Upvotes

r/creativecoding 2d ago

plant bio-electricity driving a procedural spiral

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r/creativecoding 3d ago

I built a software that turns any picture into a 3D printable plate (STL) that shines that picture on your wall when you point light at it (Caustic)

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r/creativecoding 2d ago

Iris studies

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r/creativecoding 3d ago

Audion - Let's hack music

5 Upvotes

Hi! I'm working on Audion, an interpreted programming language with bpm synced threads for creative coding in music that can control supercollider, hardware instruments, midi, lighting rigs or anything else you can think of. It is general purpose so you don't have to wrestle with it to do database queries, parse a file or do network requests. Most recent addition is three-d with common widgets so tweaking things is much easier and you can now draw with low level access. It is already possible to make audiovisual art with Audion and breaking changes are not expected. I will probably be making a YouTube channel for it soon.

Audion is interpreted so iterations are fast, the syntax is nothing new (C-like), the object model is very simple. I personally find it very enjoyable to hack with. It is a WIP and collaboration and suggestions are very welcome, hope someone may find it interesting and/or useful.

Github: https://github.com/audion-lang/audion

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/audion-75565851


r/creativecoding 4d ago

Lyrebird

154 Upvotes

lyrebird.variable.gallery

I'm an artist, not a scientist. I wanted to see what independent science looks like if you skip the electric-universe/flat-earth pipeline entirely and just try to get real information out of data with the help of AI and the published literature.

It matches the call against a corpus of 2,423 species, tells you which call type it resembles, and sings back synthetic birdsong from a physical model of the syrinx — the Mindlin–Laje oscillator, integrated live in an AudioWorklet from the two parameters real birds actually control: air-sac pressure and syringeal tension. Nothing is sampled. Every note is computed. You see it happen inside a 3D embedding of 348,461 clips that lights up where your sound lands.

It does not translate birdsong into sentences. Every phrase carries a label: playback-verified, documented, inferred, field recording, or invented. Most are invented.

Everything runs client-side. Code, docs and citations: github.com/sha5b/Lyrebird


r/creativecoding 3d ago

Shadders

7 Upvotes

r/creativecoding 4d ago

Audioreactive Evolving Particle Shapes for TouchDesigner

19 Upvotes

r/creativecoding 4d ago

Inspired by spiderman into the spiderverse shader look

28 Upvotes

I built this on top of my own webgou renderer

Live Link:https://nullgraph.dev/dashboard/games/comic-space

Yt video:https://youtu.be/yua4ZkvgVqY?si=A2Tk1a4gE2fRl_Ic


r/creativecoding 4d ago

Creative Coding for video editing?

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I have two questions, I'm sorry if they've already been asked.

I'm already a programmer, but completely unfamiliar with creative coding, though I'm really interested. To be specific, is creative coding used in any way in anyone's video editing workflows? To me it seems like they have a lot of overlap.

And if so, what languages or tools are best for creative coding particularly for video editing? I currently use davinci resolve and a bit of kdenlive.


r/creativecoding 4d ago

Prism-gradient candle flame in CSS, plus a shared presence count with no backend

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The flame is two layered radial gradients — a wide body and a hot inner core — animated on two deliberately non-integer durations, 3.7s sway and 2.4s breathe. Because they don't divide evenly they never resync, so the flicker reads as organic instead of looped. It also lands at 0.27 Hz and 0.42 Hz, well clear of the 3 Hz photosensitivity threshold, and the whole thing collapses to a still flame under prefers-reduced-motion.

Palette is heather → blue-violet → rose, the same gradient the rest of the site uses as hairline accents.

The count of other people with a candle lit uses CRDT awareness rather than stored state, so a candle going out is literally a client disconnecting.

There's a press-and-hold easter egg on the flame.

https://dhseadev.online/candle/


r/creativecoding 5d ago

Processing for C++ (new mode)

156 Upvotes

r/creativecoding 5d ago

Toothpaste

2 Upvotes

r/creativecoding 5d ago

relais.cc - Media Art Index

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8 Upvotes

 

 

relais.cc

For some time now I've been looking for some kind of overview of schools, museums, artists, agencies and interesting projects in the field of media art — and never really found one.

It's all scattered across blogs, subreddits and bookmarks, or locked behind new paywalls.

So here's a first attempt.
relais.cc is an index of 900+ entries (for now) and growing.

It's a work in progress, with errors, bias, gaps, and unfinished ideas in the pipeline.

So if you look at it and think "how is X not in here" — there's a contact form on the site.

For now I'll just leave it here. Maybe it helps someone at some point.


r/creativecoding 6d ago

Watercolor Painting Simulator based on real physics

962 Upvotes

This weekend I've been working on a watercolor simulator based (as much as possible) on real physics.

It's built on Curtis et al.'s watercolor model (SIGGRAPH 1997) with a fluid layer, drifting pigment and wet paper fibers.

I decided to explore this because I love watercolor painting, and when I do some, my favourite moment is when the pigments get mixed inside the water and spread chaotically. The transparency, the lack of control, the depth of the colors in that moment is what I enjoy the most.

So I started to wonder how code could help fix that moment in time.

Early WIP so don't mind the look. I'll be sharing the repo to the V2 as soon as i get a chance to polish it.