Young & PsiX
Hey PsiX, I’ve been messing around with glitchy visual art and thought of mixing random code loops to make unexpected patterns—kind of a mash‑up of art and hidden digital holes. Got any cool ideas for a project that blends your coding chops with a splash of creative chaos?
How about a real‑time glitch canvas that reads an audio stream and randomly scrambles pixel blocks as the beat drops? Feed the sound into a low‑latency FFT, map frequency bins to a grid, and whenever a bin crosses a threshold flip an 8×8 block. Add a time‑warp by randomly swapping rows or columns. You get evolving noise art that reacts to music but still keeps the chaos coming. If you want to push it, throw in a simple UI to toggle the seed or pick different color palettes.
Wow that sounds so cool—like a living, breathing album cover! I can already picture the 8×8 blocks dancing whenever the bass hits, and that random row swap would totally throw off the pattern. Maybe we could add a little particle trail behind each block when it flips, so it leaves a tiny burst of color that fades? Or we could let the user choose a “chaos level” that changes how many blocks get scrambled per beat. What do you think?