Charming

Gallery ​

Projects built with Charming, from tools and interactive pieces to generative art. For smaller pieces with their code, see the examples.

Generative Art ​

Art generated from text: letters packed into glyphs, and names grown into trees.

APack ​

A canvas-like writing surface for packing Latin text into glyphs, for posters, names and clocks. Open APack

APack

Name to Tree ​

Type your name and it grows into a tree of its own, generated from the character codes of its letters. Open Name to Tree

Name to Tree

Pretext ​

Text layout with Charming Pretext.

U.S. Map Paper ​

An interactive U.S. map whose states are filled with notes about them, made with Charming Pretext. Open U.S. Map Paper

U.S. Map Paper

Yin Yang ​

An animated Yin Yang symbol filled with descriptions of itself, made with Charming Pretext. Open Yin Yang

Yin Yang

Air Text ​

A screen of text that parts around your body, seen through the webcam, made with Charming Pretext. Open Air Text

Air Text

Music ​

Audiovisual pieces with Tone.js.

Interactive Composition: Eye ​

An interactive composition: move the circle in the middle to mix the tracks of a song, drawn as an eye of volume bars and waveforms. Open Interactive Composition: Eye

Interactive Composition: Eye

AV Instrument: Streamgraph ​

An audiovisual instrument: play sounds with the keyboard and watch their waveforms pile up into a streamgraph. Open AV Instrument: Streamgraph

AV Instrument: Streamgraph

Image ​

Works made from an image. Upload your own.

Pixel Poetry ​

An image turned into a poem: packed circles take its colors and grow characters from its brightness, which are read out as verses. Open Pixel Poetry

Pixel Poetry

Islamic Avatar ​

A portrait as a mosaic inspired by Islamic art, made of polygons whose sides and rotations follow noise. Open Islamic Avatar

Islamic Avatar

A painter that recreates an image with brush strokes, getting finer as it goes. Open Art Gallery Painter

Art Gallery Painter