ASCIIMATTER

Most pictures are pixels pretending to be objects. ASCIIMATTER runs the other way: it takes geometry, text and weather and resolves them into characters, so the picture is made of type. A single-file web app that installs as a PWA and renders live in the browser. One loop: patch the sources, move them, set the look, export.

Patch the sources

Feeds mix on a socket grid instead of flattening, so a lone model and a full storm run at once.

• 3D primitives, imported .obj and glTF models, live text, parametric shapes
• Field generators: rain, storm, wind, turbulence, vortex
• Grid or free layout, with radial symmetry

Shape and move

Everything tumbles in full 3D over a physics layer, so a scene can drift, swarm or collapse and still hold together.

• Spin and orbit on any axis
• Gravity, cohesion, viscosity, flow and melt
• Detonate, scatter or freeze on a gesture, or recall a preset

Look, color and export

Color is first-class, not a filter: pick a monospace face, then ramp, dither, glow and weight, recolored live through your own palettes, from mono to neon.

• Seamless ping-pong loops
• Export to video, PNG with alpha, 4K and SVG
• Save scenes as presets, or randomize