ideaflames

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Daily Inspiration

Inspirational graphic for ideaflames with sunrise colors and the words Turn sparks into systems.

"Big outcomes begin as tiny sparks. Protect the spark, then feed it every day."

Interactive Labs

Explore real-time visual experiments powered by the browser.

Escher-inspired geometric galaxy artwork in a mid-century modern color palette.

GPU Gravity Physics Simulator

Watch thousands of particles orbit and collapse under gravity on the GPU.

Open Gravity Simulator

Escher-inspired wave and lattice artwork in a mid-century modern color palette.

Fourier Wave & Filter Simulator

See waveforms transform in real time as Fourier-domain filters are applied.

Open Fourier Lab

Escher-inspired cartographic artwork with geometric map bands in a mid-century modern palette.

Web Mercator Visualizer

Load random NASA GIBS imagery tiles and inspect their Web Mercator footprint.

Open Mercator Visualizer

Escher-inspired newspaper and text-stream artwork in a mid-century modern palette.

Wikipedia News Speed Reader

Pull a random English article from current events and read it with smooth vertical or horizontal phrase scrolling.

Open Wiki Reader

Timeless Quotes

Explore wisdom from Sun Tzu, Feynman, Buffett and more — karaoke-style bouncing ball, WebGL effects, Google Fonts, Wikipedia portraits, live search.

Open Quotes

Escher-inspired earth, sky, water, and language symbols for Indigenous language learning.

Native Voices Language Lab

Select Inuktitut, Mohawk, Ojibwe/Chippewa, Cree, Navajo and more phrase drills with bouncing pronunciation guide, phonetic speech, and cultural context notes.

Open Language Lab

Intellivision Running Men Lab

Rotoscoped-style pixel runners block, fall through trap doors, and explode once while mountain rumble and chip-era thup-thup steps pulse in sync.

Open Running Men Lab

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