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Write creative code in one pane and watch it run in the next, with no install, no build step and no configuration.
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p5.js Web Editor sits in Generative Art under Make, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Algorithms as a medium: flow fields, particle systems, tilings and fractals you can steer. Output tends to be wallpaper-grade within a minute.
Yes. p5.js Web Editor is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use p5.js Web Editor without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file p5.js Web Editor as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
The gentle way into fragment shaders, with every example editable in the page and redrawing itself as you type.
Plotter art drawn by a virtual turtle in a hundred-odd lines of JavaScript, with everybody's source code on display.
Real-time fractal zoomer ported to the browser, smooth enough that the boundary keeps unfolding as fast as you dive.
Botanical infinite zoom drifting through flowers, insects and quiet ruins. Best left running on a second screen.
John McLeod's encyclopedia of card game rules, covering every regional variant of everything and settling every dispute.
Recorded user flows from real products, so you can watch an onboarding happen rather than guess at how it went.
The old-school colour scheme designer: one wheel, a live preview page, and far more control than the modern tools.
MIT's ranking of historically famous people by how many language editions of Wikipedia bother to carry them.
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