8 text-driven Canvas experiments. Built in 3 days. Zero DOM reads. All MIT.
Built with @chenglou/pretext — a text layout library that bypasses the DOM entirely. One-time canvas measurement, then pure arithmetic at ~0.0002ms per call.
Every character on screen is a physics body.
Three interactive demos: an ASCII dragon with fire/ice breath, a bioluminescent jellyfish abyss, and five animated ASCII art scenes. Structure-of-Arrays, zero GC in the game loop.
The boundary between permanence and impermanence is a line you draw.
A draggable wavy boundary splits the screen. Below: solid serif ink. Above: particles drifting on noise fields. 3 themes, vortex mode, and control panel sliders.
A Digital Monograph on Insect Morphology.
An interactive digital book about entomology. Custom text layout engine (~3,000 lines), compound eye cursor, pheromone simulation, 75+ Vitest tests, and GitHub Actions CI.
Smoke-like fluid dynamics drive real text layout on Canvas 2D.
Move your mouse to inject ASCII smoke. Body text flows around high-density regions in real time. Multi-frequency velocity field with shockwave interaction.
Text that lives, not just sits.
Scroll-driven narrative where text is the protagonist. Particles assemble into words. Words become physics bodies you can launch projectiles at. Custom spring engine, 2000 bodies at 60fps.
Every keystroke spawns a life form.
Type any character and watch organisms emerge. Five families — Herd Animals, Apex Predators, Wanderers, Scavengers, Titans. Punctuation triggers earthquakes, rain, and gravity wells.
Five generative algorithms — each a living system, every render unique.
A reusable ASCII art library: Flow Field, Typography, Reactive, Ambient, and Face Generator. Common component API, one dependency (pretext), import any component.
Where text breathes, flows, and becomes.
Multi-column editorial layout with text flowing around animated orb obstacles. Layout computation under 0.5ms. Dual themes, 1,200-particle flow field, GPU-composited transforms.