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Plotter art drawn by a virtual turtle in a hundred-odd lines of JavaScript, with everybody's source code on display.
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Turtletoy sits in Generative Art under Make, filed as rabbit hole.
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. Turtletoy is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Turtletoy without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Turtletoy 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 "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
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.
Sculpt a glossy blob with sliders for noise, light and iridescence, then leave it rotating and admire your handiwork.
JavaScript demos in 140 characters. The gap between how little code there is and what appears is the whole appeal.
Searchable captions across millions of hours of broadcast news, which makes it possible to find the exact moment something was said.
Typing practice on real open-source code, complete with the brackets and semicolons that ruin everyone's average.
Vast unofficial archive of avant-garde film, sound and writing, run on no budget whatsoever and hosted like it is still 1998.
Old-school pattern library that explains the problem each interface pattern solves before it shows you examples.
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