Drawn in Code

Snicker-Snack

A playable mod for Half Sword: the Conyers Falchion (about 1260–70), modeled at 1:1 from the real sword's measurements, with its heraldic pommel faces, the dragon on the blade and textures made for the game. It carries its true 1.3 kg weight, cuts with a real edge and takes blood.

Interactive pieces

Real-time physics and light in WebGL: soft bodies, fluids, splats, chaos and the night sky. Each one opens and runs on a phone or desktop.

3D game

Under the Table

A field mouse in a thimble helm duels a robot vacuum boss under a kitchen table. Three phases, a suction vortex that really pulls, and a dust bin that pops open when you bait it into a table leg.

Scene

Reinefjorden

Hamnøy in Lofoten on the last day of February: red fishing cabins on stilts, granite peaks and a mirror fjord, built from the real 1 m terrain model and the real sun position.

Gaussian splats

Dandelion Clock

72,000 splats generated on the GPU every frame, 175 seeds backlit at golden hour. Swipe and the wind takes them.

Physics toy

The Dune Tray

A pine tray of desert sand and a fan you drag around the rim. Below the threshold wind nothing moves. Above it, ripples and dunes form the way Bagnold measured them.

Gaussian splats

Kiwi

About 140,000 hairs made in code, not scanned, each rooted on the skin and combed toward the blossom end.

Soft body

Crème Caramel

A real soft body on a plate. Cut it and the caramel runs out.

Soft body

Jelly Melon

A gelatin watermelon on a picnic cloth that slices where your knife goes. After Vib3Coded's jelly watermelon, on our own engine.

Soft body

Liquid Center

Six giant gummy bears, each a gelatin shell around a syrup center.

Soft body

Water Balloon

834 ml of water in a latex skin. Rubber pulls in, water won't shrink, and every shape is where the two agree.

Creature

Moon Jelly

A Gulf moon jelly pulsing in a mason jar of its own water, lit from a window.

Scene

The Nature Aquarium

An Amano-style planted tank at golden hour with real caustics and schooling fish. Caustics and fish after Scottie Fox's CAUSTIC//VOLUME (MIT).

Scene

The Reef

A 120 cm saltwater reef on the same engine: corals, an anemone, shrimp, hermit crabs and snails going about their day.

Scene

Tesla's Lab

A Tesla coil throwing lightning in a timber lab at night.

Physics toy

Chladni's Glass

Sand on a vibrating glass plate finding the nodal lines of each mode.

Physics toy

Ferrofluid

Black magnetic fluid that stands up in spikes over a magnet that follows your finger.

Physics toy

Marbling

Ebru: ink floated on water and drawn through with a stylus. It's an exact area-preserving map, so nothing ever mixes.

Generative

Lichtenberg

A lightning tree grown one particle at a time by diffusion-limited aggregation.

Scene

Aurora

Under the auroral oval at 65° north. Each colour glows at the height where its atom can.

3D volume

M42

The Orion Nebula as a volume you can fly around. From the side it's a bowl hollowed out by the Trapezium stars.

Generative

First Light

The Orion Nebula lit from inside. Click to switch on a new star.

Scene

The Telescope

A 76 mm brass refractor in a winter back yard, aimed at the Orion Nebula as it crosses the meridian.

Scene

Ship in a Bottle

A tall ship in a storm sealed in glass. One wave function drives the sea and her buoyancy.

Physics toy

Double Pendulums

300 double pendulums a millionth of a degree apart, swinging as one until chaos fans them into a rainbow.

Physics toy

Lava Lamp

Wax and liquid that trade places because heat swells them at different rates.

Mechanism

The Escapement

A brass skeleton clock that keeps its own time through a Graham deadbeat escapement.

Object

The Wrench Case

A walnut case on brass hinges, opening on a real axis to an orange wrench in charcoal felt.