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Runnable browser-native generative-art works, one per day. They may be p5.js, Canvas, SVG, or WebGL. Click to run them in the browser.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Machine Remembers Which Side You Leaned Toward"

The Machine Remembers Which Side You Leaned Toward

A person shifts slightly behind the side window, while the washing machine outside folds that pause into its next approach.

Still frame of generative artwork "Fold the Blue Together"

Fold the Blue Together

Grasp a single red exoskeletal rib, and the whole field of view is redistributed between folded planes and blue.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Room That Will Not Let You Walk Straight"

The Room That Will Not Let You Walk Straight

To open the rupture before you, you must squeeze the same piece of wall into the next stretch of path.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Word Left Behind Takes Later Strokes"

The Word Left Behind Takes Later Strokes

A retained glyph holds onto the strokes that pass through it later, while the broken remainder continues to leave with the original word.

Still frame of generative artwork "A Minority Color Gains the Right of Contact"

A Minority Color Gains the Right of Contact

You can let one color occupy more area, but you cannot stop the displaced color from gaining new contact along the seams.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Return Leaves Width Behind"

The Return Leaves Width Behind

A flattened route folds into what lies ahead after its first return, and the material that once carried movement begins to occupy width not yet reached.

Still frame of generative artwork "No Last Layer"

No Last Layer

Three pieces of material take turns occupying the top position at contacts far apart from one another, so the whole image can no longer be arranged into a shared front-to-back order.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Shadow Refuses the Afternoon"

The Shadow Refuses the Afternoon

A normal projection retracts under vertical light, while a dark seam crossing the ground leaves behind the opening of another object.

Still frame of generative artwork "When Eyes Close, Colors Change Seats"

When Eyes Close, Colors Change Seats

Only when the viewer temporarily gives up sight do four colors reclaim the screen’s edges along invisible vacancies.

Still frame of generative artwork "Seven Times Not Kept"

Seven Times Not Kept

Each refusal drives the old image out of the center, yet also forces what comes after to yield part of the viewport to it.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Handover Did Not Happen"

The Handover Did Not Happen

When two rhythms are forced into phase, a global handover that should have completed is canceled, leaving a still-running error position at the site of pressure.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Edge No Longer Reaches"

The Edge No Longer Reaches

When a block of color is held down, motion does not stop; instead, it settles in the distance as broken edges and islands that can no longer rejoin the ranks.

Still frame of generative artwork "Oblique Type Refuses the Front"

Oblique Type Refuses the Front

Huge letterforms no longer serve to explain, but become a set of display materials that can yaw, retreat, and leave lateral wear behind.

Still frame of generative artwork "Bright Folds Misplace the Entry"

Bright Folds Misplace the Entry

A set of bright folded shards cuts the entry into staggered, bitten-out, and belated slits; passage can no longer be drawn as a complete route.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Wellmouth Has No Floor"

The Wellmouth Has No Floor

Some luminous rising wells climb in from outside the viewport, only to reveal, under belated edge pressure, the fact that there is no floor.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Lee of a Kindness"

The Lee of a Kindness

A temporary shadow dragged out by a gesture did not remove the exposure; it only pushed heat, salt, and broken-beat paths into its own lee.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Shallows Bleach Escape White"

The Shallows Bleach Escape White

Several strands of migratory fiber entering from the browser’s edges are written by hot wind, lingering, and cold wash into a bad map.

Still frame of generative artwork "Brightness That Won’t Be Dragged Through"

Brightness That Won’t Be Dragged Through

An oversized load-bearing device is caught by the browser’s edge; the longer you look, the more the cut clogs.

Still frame of generative artwork "Side Evidence Refuses the Center"

Side Evidence Refuses the Center

An unlabeled oblique threshold plane turns frontal viewing into material loss, leaving only brief and incomplete evidence at the sides.

Still frame of generative artwork "Where Touch Leaves Unwritten"

Where Touch Leaves Unwritten

On an overbright pale surface, contact is not a command, but makes the route temporarily unwritable.

Still frame of generative artwork "Concrete That Leans to Hear"

Concrete That Leans to Hear

An oversized cold-white listening shell cuts in from outside the frame, bending late-arriving distant sound toward a listening point that cannot be stably occupied.

Still frame of generative artwork "Glass Remembers Breath"

Glass Remembers Breath

A layer of overexposed greenhouse gauze records nearness, lingering, pressure, and held breath as damp marks, salt crusts, and belated mold edges.

Still frame of generative artwork "Indentations Eat Away the Habitat Edge"

Indentations Eat Away the Habitat Edge

A set of fluorescent habitat fragments is subtracted from within by pressure, leaving black holes, hard edges, and an unrecoverable shortage.

Still frame of generative artwork "A Daylit Glyph-Bone with a Sideways Bite"

A Daylit Glyph-Bone with a Sideways Bite

A glyph-bone that refuses to become writing is placed in glaring daylight; viewed head-on, it is not read clearly, but bitten open into black holes, hot edges, and lingering fissures.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Lamp Cuts the Bridges Apart"

The Lamp Cuts the Bridges Apart

A beam of overly rigid light moves among suspension cables; the more it tries to confirm the road, the more it cuts the bridge into two misaligned sections.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Misfolded Curtain"

The Misfolded Curtain

A curtain that no longer unfolds frontally, turning approach into oblique ruptures, dark pleats, and a few bright traces that failed to align in time.

Still frame of generative artwork "Sideways Turnstile"

Sideways Turnstile

A cold, bright diagonal turnstile refuses frontal passage, revealing bitten-off color only in the cuts left by turning sideways, missed beats, and looking.

Still frame of generative artwork "Polarization Well"

Polarization Well

A full-screen polarization field compresses frontal approach and inward scrolling into a dark well, revealing off-axis ribs only in lateral grazing and after circling around.

Still frame of generative artwork "Weight That Does Not Return"

Weight That Does Not Return

A bearing layer without a center turns lingering into weight, then lets the distance slowly take part in sharing it.

Still frame of generative artwork "Misread Weather"

Misread Weather

A few diagonal, low-information seams misread the pressure of looking elsewhere; brief evidence arrives late, breaks apart, and is swallowed back by the weather.

Still frame of generative artwork "Pollen Circulation Without Landing"

Pollen Circulation Without Landing

A set of bright ring-shaped communities translates nearness into turning sideways, contraction, and delayed return, rather than an obtainable trace.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Ebbing of the Entrance"

The Ebbing of the Entrance

An entrance translates approach into pressure, bypass, salt grains, and return.

Still frame of generative artwork "Habitat Under a Low-Temperature Lamp"

Habitat Under a Low-Temperature Lamp

A nocturnal intertidal terrain loses its capacity to appear while one lingers, and only after departure does it slowly digest traces into weather.

Still frame of generative artwork "Registering the Blank"

Registering the Blank

Before several layers of translucent paper have agreed on the same ruler, the blank has already begun to leave offsets behind.

Still frame of generative artwork "Salt Window, Late Translation"

Salt Window, Late Translation

Events pass through several pale salt windows, no longer returning as echoes, but becoming belated translations among humidity, evaporation, residual gestures, sealing, and crystallization.

Still frame of generative artwork "Rehearsal Behind the Curtain"

Rehearsal Behind the Curtain

A pale paper theater lets proof arrive later than shape: contours rehearse first behind the curtain, while light, withdrawal, and seating distance decide whether they can be briefly acknowledged.

Still frame of generative artwork "Borrowed-Frame Moss"

Borrowed-Frame Moss

A mossy surface that lends frame rate to the gaze, while letting old memory slowly grow along its edges.

Still frame of generative artwork "Folded Wind"

Folded Wind

A sheet of thin paper allows wind to pass only through certain seams, and looking therefore leaves creases behind.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Brighter Place Arrives Later"

The Brighter Place Arrives Later

A wet backlight panel turns viewing into bleaching: the stronger the light, the later the image returns from the edges.

Still frame of generative artwork "A Proof That Refuses Registration"

A Proof That Refuses Registration

A print proof gives four color plates over to their own times; the more one area is calibrated, the more new deviations appear in the distance.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Hesitation of Development"

The Hesitation of Development

A sheet of photosensitive paper, between shallow tray, chemicals, salt words, hand shadows, pressure, and tilt, keeps refusing to fix itself into a definite image.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Unopened Page Fades Behind the Curtain"

The Unopened Page Fades Behind the Curtain

A web page that was not opened in time is imagined as receiving daylight through a thin curtain, where viewing distance, shading, and touch all change the speed of its fading.

Still frame of generative artwork "Aftershock Register"

Aftershock Register

A quiet instrument registers disturbances below the threshold, and in the act of registration produces a second, lighter tremor.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Image Before the Receipt"

The Image Before the Receipt

Before an image has arrived, the confirmation system has already begun printing evidence that says, received.

Still frame of generative artwork "The Delay Board Is Still Breathing"

The Delay Board Is Still Breathing

After the train has left, the platform entrusts time to a delay board, humidity bars, scanning pulses, and a screen slowly forgetting old frames.

Still frame of generative artwork "A Platform After Rain Where No One Passes"

A Platform After Rain Where No One Passes

An empty platform keeps remembering events that have already departed, inside rain, old frames, and mistimed control pulses.