Channel Surfer: A Gateway to Random Web Discovery
Channel Surfer is a minimalist web tool by RDU for discovering random internet content through a channel-surfing interface.
A Million Pixels: Collaborative AI Art for a Cause
A Million Pixels is a crowdsourced AI art project where users buy canvas space to create a collaborative mural that funds coding education.
Remote Access to a Physical Boss TU3 Tuner
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A web service that lets users remotely tune their instruments using a physical Boss TU3 tuner housed in a box.
GitHub - nikopueringer/CorridorKey: Perfect Green Screen Keys
CorridorKey is an AI-driven green screen keyer that uses neural networks to reconstruct true foreground colors and delicate transparency for professional VFX compositing.
Building Procedural Hex Worlds with WebGPU
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A high-performance procedural island generator using Wave Function Collapse and WebGPU to create logically connected 3D hex maps.
MOSS: The Programmable Pixel Art Playground
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MOSS is a digital painting toy where every brush is a customizable program that creates emergent, living pixel art.
Web Audio Studio: Visual Debugging for Browser Audio
An interactive browser-based tool for visualizing, debugging, and experimenting with Web Audio API signal chains in real time.
gitcredits: Cinematic Credits for Your Git Repositories
A terminal utility that turns Git repository history and contributor data into a scrolling movie-style credit sequence.
Claude's Pen-Plotted Self-Portraits
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An AI explores its identity and the limitations of physical media by designing self-portraits for a pen plotter.
The Golf is Golfing: A Claude Code Game
A golf game project developed by Claude Code and Paul Jensen featuring a 300-yard Par 3.
Live City-Building Feed: 32 Mayors, 427 Cities, 7.94M Population
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A live leaderboard of a city-building simulation tracks recent cities, mayors, populations, years, and scores across an active community.
Posturr: Blur Your Mac Screen When You Slouch
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An open-source macOS app that uses your camera to detect slouching and gently enforce better posture by blurring the screen.
Metal-Accelerated Image Reconstruction with Random Bézier Strokes
A Metal-accelerated Rust tool that paints images with random cubic Bézier strokes, accepting only OKLab error-reducing strokes to iteratively reconstruct the target.
Inside A$AP Rocky’s ‘Helicopter’: Real Stunts, Volumetric Capture, and Dynamic Gaussian Splats
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Real performances, captured volumetrically and rendered as Gaussian splats, power A$AP Rocky’s “Helicopter,” showcasing a mature, relightable 3D workflow that preserves reality while maximizing post-production freedom.
Interactive Piano & Metronome: Enable Audio to Start
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This is an interactive piano/metronome UI that requires a click to enable audio and offers basic controls and settings.
Rising Smoke in three.js with Noise-Driven Alpha and Vertex Twisting
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Drive alpha, animation, and vertex twisting from a noise texture to turn a plane into convincing, rising smoke in three.js.
Spiral Piano: Explore Microtonal Equal Temperaments
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An interactive spiral piano that lets you play and design sounds across multiple microtonal temperaments to connect Western and global musical traditions.
From Diffusion to TTF: Making an AI Font and Tackling Normalization
Diffusion makes letters easy, but turning them into a good, consistent font lives or dies on normalization and typography metrics.
Pixel Snapper: Grid-Perfect, Palette-Strict Cleanup for AI Pixel Art
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An open-source tool that snaps AI-messy pixel art to a perfect grid and strict palette, available as a Rust CLI and WebAssembly module.
Generative Design: Run and Download p5.js Sketches from the Book
A hub to run and download the Generative Design book’s p5.js sketches, complete with resources and author contacts.
From Breadboard to Toy: A DIY Kid-Friendly Step-Sequencer Synth
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A DIY journey from breadboard to polished, kid-friendly step-sequencer synth, balancing playful design with real-world engineering and manufacturing trade-offs.
US Tech Treemap: Live Market Cap and Performance by Timeframe
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A real-time treemap shows the size and performance of large-cap US tech stocks across multiple timeframes.
Weather as Brushstrokes: Aaron Alden’s Data-Driven Art in TouchDesigner
Alden uses TouchDesigner to turn weather data into a single painterly stroke, proving abstract generative art can communicate complex information clearly and beautifully.
Interactive Shader That Reveals Your Fovea’s Footprint
A procedurally animated shader makes motion visible only near your gaze point, letting you see the size of your fovea.
WIP AI Music-Video Generator: Image + Audio In, Video Clip Out
Preview of an AI tool that turns an artist image and audio into a short music video, with a near-term release and a call for user feedback.
One-Line Strudel Code for a TR-909 Drum Groove
A quick Strudel one-liner for a TR-909 drum groove with short decay and alternating hats, plus a link to Strudel’s social feed.
Pose Animator: Real-time SVG Puppeteering with TensorFlow.js
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An open-source tool that turns SVGs into real-time, browser-based puppets using PoseNet/FaceMesh and smart vector deformation.
Game Design in 12 Principles: A Practical Cheat Sheet
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Design uncertain problems players can master, scaffold them with clear loops and feedback, vary and pace them well, dress them coherently for a target audience, and keep pushing just beyond mastery.
Before Wordle: DEC’s 1973 BASIC “WORD” and the Roots of Guessing Games
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Wordle’s core idea dates back to DEC’s 1973 BASIC game WORD, part of a broader, influential era of simple yet clever guessing games.
TheoryTab: Explore Song Theory by Chord Progressions and Real Examples
An interactive database that connects chord progressions and song theory to real tracks, making music analysis searchable, visual, and hands-on.
Color-Coded Harmony: Learning Western Music Through 100 Popular Pieces
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A color-coded, piano-roll guide lets you learn and see Western harmony—no standard notation required—starting with simple triads and applied to 100 well-known pieces.
Explore Named Colors Across Color Spaces
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A browsable, open-source visual tool to explore how named color palettes distribute across many color spaces and datasets.
Dithering Basics: How Black-and-White Patterns Fake Shades
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Use black-and-white pixel patterns to fake shades—ordered via a threshold map—so fewer colors can still look like many.
David Byrne Radio: 2013–2025 Archive of Themed, Global Playlists
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A decade-plus archive of David Byrne’s monthly, globally eclectic radio playlists with themed, streamable mixes.
Macro Insects as 3D Gaussian Splats via Focus Stacking
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Focus-stacked macro photography plus COLMAP and Postshot yields sharp, photoreal 3D Gaussian splats of insects, with a free CC BY model shared.
Drunk CSS: An Empathy Nudge, Not Accessibility
A deliberately inaccessible “Drunk” CSS mode is an empathy nudge—not a substitute—for real accessibility testing with disabled users.
A Gallery Driving Mobile-First Web Design
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A curated gallery to push designers toward truly mobile-first web design.
Civ VII Update: Voronoi Maps Deliver Natural, Varied Worlds
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Civ VII now uses Voronoi-driven maps for more natural, varied worlds, with new options, preserved balance, and strong modding support.
Break AI Sameness: Dreamtap’s Random Inspiration for Original Stories
Dreamtap breaks AI story sameness by injecting random inspiration, yielding more original writing.
Procedural Islands III: Multi-Scale Noise and Topological Mountains for Final Elevation
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Multi-scale noise plus a topological mountain distance field, blended smartly, produces realistic island elevation ready for hydrology.
Massive Attack Uses Live Facial Recognition to Expose Surveillance Culture
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Massive Attack turned a concert into a live facial recognition display to confront audiences with the normalization of surveillance.
FFglitch Gallery: A Curated Showcase of Datamoshing Works
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A curated showcase of artists and works demonstrating the creative possibilities of FFglitch-driven datamoshing and motion vector manipulation.
Evolving Melodies: Coding Culture’s Darwinian Patterns
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Music and culture evolve like living systems, and code can expose their simple, universal rules through playful simulations.
Flame Fractals in GLSL: Chaos-Game Splatting, Transforms, and Simple Post
A practical GPU guide to rendering flame fractals with atomic density splatting, flexible transforms, and simple color/tonemapping plus DOF and motion blur.
Live LLM Dialogue in GameCube Animal Crossing via a RAM Mailbox Hack
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A RAM mailbox and control-code-savvy LLM pipeline let a 24-year-old Animal Crossing speak fresh, in-character AI dialogue without touching the original code.
Liquid Glass on the Web with SVG Displacement Maps
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Use physics-driven SVG displacement maps and a rim-light overlay to approximate Apple’s Liquid Glass in Chrome as a backdrop-filter.
Mobile MoleCheck: Swipe to Flag Lesion Concern
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A mobile-optimized app lets you swipe to label skin lesion images as concerned, not concerned, or unsure.
Talking to Strangers Feels Better Than We Think—and Rebuilds Trust
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Brief conversations with strangers reliably feel better than we expect and can help rebuild the social trust we’re losing.
AR Fluid Sim That Collides with Real Objects
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An AR-style setup lets a fluid simulation collide with real objects by aligning a webcam feed—filtered to avoid feedback—with the digital solver.