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Fun & Games

Games, generative toys, phone gadgets, calculators and math demos

Ball MazeTilt your phone to roll a steel ball through endless generated mazes and around holes
Fractal DiveEndless WebGL2 zoom into a Julia set or an Apollonian gasket, with an automatic dive mode
Python on the GPUPython functions compiled to GPU shaders: four simulations and a playground for your own
Self-Painting SVGAny picture becomes one SVG that sketches itself, paints itself in, then falls apart
Strudel FMGenerative radio: a program writes house, techno, lo-fi, ambient or dub, four bars at a time
Age Multiplier CalculatorEnter two birthdates, get your age ratio and the dates it drops to 2x, 3x and so on
AsteroidsAsteroids with keyboard, touch or tilt steering, levels and lives, written in Preact
BlasterSpace shooter against descending saucers, with sound effects synthesized in Web Audio
Cadence for DummiesCount steps or pedal turns over a time, get cadence in BPM and a Spotify playlist prompt
Car DashboardPhone HUD from GPS: speed, heading, altitude, grade and trip stats, in mph or km/h
Car Dashboard (demo)Looping simulated drive through the car dashboard, so it works without GPS
Catch-Up CalculatorLate for a group ride: time and distance to catch up, speed needed, watts estimate
CurrentsFull-screen WebGL flow field of warped noise that follows the cursor; click changes colors
Currents in MotionPhone-steered WebGL flow field: spin, tilt and roll pick the color, shaking speeds it up
EML CalculatorRewrite exp, ln and arithmetic as trees of one operator: eml(x,y) = exp(x) - ln(y)
Emoji Collage MakerTurn an uploaded image into a grid of color-matched emojis; download as PNG or SVG
Emoji Collage Maker (categories)The collage maker with checkboxes to limit emojis to categories such as faces or nature
EpicyclesType a word, watch a chain of rotating circles trace it in one line (Fourier transform)
Generative Typography PlaygroundRandom poems from word fragments, set as flow, cascade, scatter or spiral over particles
Infinity ShaderFull-screen WebGL shader animation after an equation by XorDev; scroll to zoom
Marauder's Map: Orbit EditionLive map of the two space stations and their crews, with how far away they are from you
Pelican, Bicycle3D pelican in a straw boater pedaling a bicycle along a beach; drag to look, scroll to zoom
Snooker Break Simulator2D snooker: a rearmost-red break against Shaun Murphy's third-red break, with aim and spin
Spectral TreeEigenvalue paths of a matrix blend as a rotatable 3D tree; click a tip for its numbers
SpeedometerGPS speed in large mph digits for a windshield HUD; tap to mirror, double tap to rotate
Strudel ComposerRedirects to a claude.ai artifact that turns English into Strudel live-coded music
tap.localizerTrain a k-nearest-neighbor model to tell where you tap the phone, from accelerometer data
Unicorn SpotterInstallable map app for unicorn sightings; it runs on generated fake sightings, no backend
Video About Making VideosA 75-second narrated video that is a live web page: every frame is HTML, CSS and SVG
Webcam Emoji MirrorYour webcam feed redrawn live as a mirrored grid of emojis
Yin-Yang ImpactsTwo balls bounce inside a yin-yang and dent its boundary like liquid; hold to speed up

Readmes

README files on GitHub, for the tools that have one.