[HN Gopher] Moire Explorer
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       Moire Explorer
        
       Author : Luc
       Score  : 100 points
       Date   : 2026-01-04 12:54 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (play.ertdfgcvb.xyz)
 (TXT) w3m dump (play.ertdfgcvb.xyz)
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | Very cool. Is there a pause button?
        
         | maplethorpe wrote:
         | Ctrl+shift+c lets you copy a frame to clipboard.
        
         | xtiansimon wrote:
         | No, but you'll come down in about eight hours... LOL.
         | 
         | I like this project--
         | 
         | The layout is well designed--image area, editable code window,
         | and compact navigation--pleasantly proportioned with an
         | excellent demonstration of thematic font choice. And, surprise,
         | some are interactive.
         | 
         | I imagine it's an excellent way to organize and store your
         | collection of animation algos. The 'about' is detailed
         | (https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/abc.html#play:about) and
         | interesting to read.
         | 
         | Thanks to OP for sharing.
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | Looking at this it looks like that Moore pattern is just
       | waves/signals interacting with each other. Also that low cost
       | effects can be created using these patterns.
        
       | Luc wrote:
       | Press CMD+. a couple of times to bring up a sidebar with more
       | info and other demos.
       | 
       | CMD+I will enable Immediate Mode, so that every edit you make is
       | reflected in the output as you type.
        
       | omoikane wrote:
       | For some reason, the box drawing characters aligns properly for
       | me in Chrome but not in Firefox, as seen in the right edge of the
       | blue box. The misalignment is more pronounced in the SDF circle
       | demo:
       | 
       | https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/sdf/circle
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       | I wonder if it's just me (different browser locale, maybe?)
        
       | kens wrote:
       | This reminds me of mid-1970s ASCII computer graphics, except more
       | advanced and orders of magnitude faster. In particular, it
       | brought to mind "Mandala" from the book "What to Do After You Hit
       | Return", which was an amazing book in 1975, full of BASIC games
       | and graphics programs that you could type in. If you want the
       | vibe of early home computers, take a look at this book.
       | 
       | https://archive.org/details/Whattodoafteryouhitreturn/page/n...
        
       | gatkinso wrote:
       | Highly recommend checking out Andreas' other work on
       | https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/. Probably one of my favorite websites of
       | all time, his body of work is what complete commitment to an idea
       | looks like. Couple cool hardware projects in there too.
        
         | brcmthrowaway wrote:
         | Saw NFTs, closed tab
        
       | lifetimerubyist wrote:
       | I have no idea what I'm looking at but it's cool AF.
        
       | arunc wrote:
       | The monospace font, LL Simple Console, used on this website is so
       | cool. Seems like it is proprietary and cannot be used in other
       | domains. See https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/css/simple_console.css
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | Why do people use domains like this for actual content? If I saw
       | "ertdfgcvb.xyz" in a search result I'd ignore it as "likely SEO
       | spam".
        
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