ASCII Lab

52 animation experiments for the masthead. Pick your favorite.

ASCII Animations (24)

Matrix Rain

#01 — Classic falling character rain, data-themed

3D Rotating Cube

#02 — Wireframe cube with perspective projection

Spinning Globe

#03 — Wireframe sphere with lat/lon grid lines

Data Flow Network

#04 — Animated node graph with flowing data particles

Terminal Replay

#05 — Simulated API extraction being typed out

DNA Helix

#06 — Double helix rotation with base pair labels

Doom Fire

#07 — Procedural fire effect propagating upward

Radar Sweep

#08 — Rotating radar with blip detection

Waveform

#09 — Overlapping sine waves animation

Particle Text

#10 — Particles assembling into 'KS' letters

Game of Life

#11 — Conway's cellular automaton

Binary Stream

#12 — Flowing binary with embedded keywords

Starfield Warp

#13 — Stars flying past camera in 3D

Concentric Ripples

#14 — Water-like ripple interference patterns

3D Brain Logo

#15 — KnowledgeSDK logo spinning in 3D with ASCII shading

Text Scramble

#16 — KNOWLEDGESDK revealed through scrambled chars

Perlin Terrain

#17 — Scrolling noise-based landscape

Neural Network

#18 — Signal propagation through neural layers

Orbiting Planets

#19 — Solar system orbital mechanics

Maze Generator

#20 — Recursive backtracker + BFS solver

Plasma Effect

#21 — Classic demoscene plasma pattern

Spirograph

#22 — Geometric pattern drawing itself

Oscilloscope

#23 — Retro CRT waveform display with phosphor trail

Falling Tetris

#24 — Auto-playing Tetris with line clears

Canvas / WebGL Interactive (28)

Particle Field

#25 — 800 particles with mouse repulsion + connections

MOVE MOUSE TO INTERACT

Noise Shader

#26 — Flowing organic FBM noise in orange/black

Metaballs

#27 — Blobby organic shapes attracted to cursor

MOVE MOUSE TO ATTRACT BLOBS

Gravity Slingshot

#28 — Orbs attracted to mouse gravity well with trails

MOVE MOUSE — GRAVITY WELL

Voronoi Cells

#29 — Animated Voronoi diagram with moving seeds

Electric Arc

#30 — Procedural lightning between nodes + mouse

MOVE MOUSE — ELECTRIC ARC

Fluid Sim

#31 — Mouse-driven fluid dynamics simulation

DRAG MOUSE TO PAINT FLUID

Wave Terrain

#32 — 3D perspective wireframe terrain with flowing waves

Particle Vortex

#33 — 500 particles orbiting mouse in elliptical swirl

MOVE MOUSE — VORTEX CENTER

Constellation

#34 — Stars that connect into constellations near cursor

HOVER TO REVEAL CONSTELLATIONS

Neon Grid

#35 — Synthwave Tron-style perspective grid with sun

Morphing Blob

#36 — Organic blob shape following mouse position

MOVE MOUSE TO GUIDE BLOB

Pixel Sort

#37 — Glitch art pixel sorting effect on noise pattern

Reaction Diffusion

#38 — Gray-Scott model creating organic coral patterns

Lorenz Attractor

#39 — Strange attractor traced with rotating 3D trail

Spectrum Bars

#40 — Fake audio frequency visualizer with reflections

Fractal Tree

#41 — Recursive branching tree swaying in the wind

Smoke

#42 — Rising smoke particles with radial gradients

Kaleidoscope

#43 — Mirrored geometric patterns rotating symmetrically

Magnetic Field

#44 — Field lines between orbiting positive/negative poles

Fireworks

#45 — Rockets launching and exploding into colorful sparks

Wormhole

#46 — Infinite tunnel of deforming concentric rings

Pendulum Wave

#47 — 24 pendulums creating mesmerizing wave patterns

Rain Splash

#48 — Falling rain with splash particles and ripples

Orbiting Rings

#49 — 3D tilting rings with orbiting glowing dots

Lissajous

#50 — Evolving Lissajous curves with tracing dots

Sine Cloth

#51 — Woven grid fabric rippling with layered sine waves

Flocking Boids

#52 — 120 boids with cohesion, alignment and separation