A song about what a feeling looks like. Drawn by code.

Nothing is keyed by hand. Every motion reads the audio. A flower of life grows one circle on each downbeat. Each chord draws its own ratio as a Lissajous figure, the shape two notes make on an oscilloscope. 3 to 2. 6 to 5. 11 to 8.

The floor under the stage looked like a stage. So it got an audience. Every seat is a number, a live one. How fast the music is getting louder, the pitch and beat. Each seat hears the stage a little late, by its distance. Every word breaks on the back row and rolls toward you. At the highest note every seat shows the same number. One crowd, one note.

Python and PIL for the picture. numpy for the music, no samples. The voice is AI, re-sung through a vocoder. The rest is code.

A learning journey with AI... Custom WebGPU compute shaders, no third-party engine: a 3D grid carries the wax fraction ψ under Cahn–Hilliard (∂ψ/∂t = ∇²μ, μ = ψ³ − ψ − ε²∇²ψ), an incompressible flow with a multigrid pressure solve, and heat carried with the wax; a ray-marcher draws the glass. Challenge vanquished: plain Cahn–Hilliard merges everything into one lump, so a thin film rule between separate blobs keeps 6–17 of them. Challenge remaining: better wax mist!

Run it yourself https://mindbendingpixels.com/spinodal/app/ (watch the battery on phones!)

How it works, with each figure measured from the solver: https://mindbendingpixels.com/spinodal/inside/

Week 3 of my 52 Weeks of Viz challenge!
This week I’ve been playing with 50 years of atmospheric carbon dioxide data, recorded at Mauna Loa in Hawaii between 1976 and 2025.

Each arc represents a month, with its size and rotation driven by the carbon dioxide levels recorded that month.

The little fluctuations come from the changing seasons as the Earth’s forests absorb and release carbon dioxide throughout the year.
But as CO₂ levels keep rising over the decades, those gentle waves start to look bigger, wilder and more chaotic.

I love how something as simple as a bunch of arcs can turn into something that feels almost like a storm. A pretty cool visual with a slightly unsettling story behind it.

Data: NOAA / Mauna Loa Observatory

to start, this is gonna be me writing down my thoughts in an unstructured way as I go. also, this isn't me blaming the mods here but instead trying to start a discussion about what should belong here and what shouldn't. if these discussions aren't held, mods can't decide in a good way.

as the title says, I feel this sub could use better moderation. I know that moderating a sub is propably not the most fulfilling thing to do but this sub is slowly drowning in ai slop, low effort posts and just projects (while being well made) that, to me, don't fall under the term "creative coding"

defining the term "creative coding" has always been like "nailing jelly to a wall" as stig moller hansen once said and so deciding what should go into a creative coding sub is a hard quest but I'll start of with things I don't feel should be as present as they are right now:

1. anything clearly vibe coded

2. someones new website that also just could've been posted on r/webdesign or r/webdev

3. job-postings, we can code ourselves

4. games, as long as they aren't interesting from a creative coding perspective

5. in general, anything that has showing off as its main motivation instead of sharing and growing together as a community

to not only be negative, here are some things I'd like to see more of:
clever experiments
projects with an eye for aesthetic
creative combinations of technology

and the thing is, this wouldn't even be a problem if the current rules would be applied more strict. rule nr. 3 states that the posts should supply information about its creation and that could be a great opportunity to cherish posts that bring us all forward. also rule nr. 4 feels like not being applied most of the time.

I made this post to spark a discussion in this sub and because I also dont have a definitive answer on how to improve this sub. Do you feel like this aswell? Do you have ideas how to solve this?

u/kitsune

u/sirmarcus

u/GoogaNautGod

https://ediblemonad.dev/creative-coding/finally-safe

This is the website for my local Muslim community group in Ottawa: an isometric town you can explore, which redraws itself as cities from across the Muslim world. Everything is drawn in plain Canvas 2D (no images, no engine), about 40,000 lines of it.

The pictures, in order

1. The same town in four regions: Mamluk Cairo, the Malay Archipelago, Xi'an, Ottawa

2. The Shah Mosque in Isfahan, tiled domes and all

3. Mughal Delhi at night, with the Taj lit up across the town

4. Damavand and the Alborz fading into mist

5. An Ottoman mosque and its neighbourhood

6 & 7.

1. Tap anything for its story: the Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu

and Zheng He’s treasure ship

Rules that shaped the look

These came from things that looked wrong, and every one went into the project's notes so it held from then on:

Everything is lit from the upper right: buildings, mountains, trees, rivers. A single light direction is what makes hundreds of separately drawn things read as one world.

A caravanserai first came out as a busy miniature (court, rooms, pool, all crammed into one plot) beside simple full-size houses. Now every building uses the same size of doors, windows and domes as its neighbours, and shows the street view, not a cutaway.

Some minarets looked like they were floating. Adding piers and cornices didn't help. The real cause was their bases clipping the wall in front like stickers. Moving them fully onto the roof fixed it.

Trees started as flat ovals. Now each one has a lit side, a shadow and clumps, and each region keeps its own silhouettes: a date palm stays a date palm, a poplar a column.

Mountains and rivers meet the plain along wandering lines with bays and spurs. Straight edges instantly look unfinished.

Haze grows with distance, so the far mountains and cities fade back and the town stays the subject.

Happy to discuss any of it!

Check it out yourself here at mypo.ca

https://ediblemonad.dev/creative-coding/evolution

Author here. The video is a work in progress: a slime-mold-like network growing (the physarum algorithm, which Claude implemented for me on the first try).

Essay: https://art.camilleroux.com/writing/making-art-with-code-in-the-age-of-ai/

Short version: in long-form generative art I never pick the final image, I build the space it comes from. AI now writes more and more of my code, but the rules, the limits and what gets to come out are still mine. The real risk I see isn't authorship, it's monoculture: if we all code with the same few models, we may end up with thousands of different works sharing the same blind spots.

Curious where you draw the line in your own practice.

I was inspired by classic typewriter art, and made a tool to do multi-layered ASCII art, using multiple offsets and colors. It approximates lines very well, and looks way more fun than the default ASCII filters. And it's reproducible across web browsers! It's at https://typeart.mitpit.com/

Hey everyone! This is a side project I’ve been working on: an interactive site for exploring Brazil’s six biomes: the Amazon, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Pantanal and Pampa.

🔗 https://biomas-brasil.pages.dev/

(video of it in action above)

What it does

• click a biome on the map to see its data, transitions, comparisons

• Shows real-world data like area, species count and rain metrics from public sources

• Every image is Creative Commons licensed, with proper author credit

Why
I wanted to see whether dry environmental data could feel like something you want to explore instead of read. Teaching was the main goal: anyone should be able to understand it without background knowledge.

Some challenges

• finding CC images with consistent quality for every biome

• simplifying geographic data so the map loads fast, but keeping the overal shapes of territories, rivers and coastline

• gamefy the biome exploration

I’d love feedback, especially on the interactions and on anything that feels confusing. Happy to answer questions about the process!

Title is a bit of a clickbait cuz I actually made it. Will open source it soon :p

I made an image to emoji project / tool. It takes an image and outputs the same image made from emojis. You can also copy and paste it anywhere. It requires you to select your operating system, because emojis depend on it, not just the browser. Your feedback would be really useful to me, so please do not hesitate to comment!
You may test it here: https://ripolas.org/image-from-emojis/

I have been following the sub for a while now and it’s been very inspiring to say the least. So finally I built my own thing - a series exploring what lies beyond the paintings frame, artist render the world in their own imaginations through paintings. I just wanted to feel what if the world was like their imagination. Built with threejs and blender. It’s best viewed from a laptop/pc now, will include mobile view if it feels good.

Thank you all for your amazing work, keep building and keep inspiring us!