AT

From moving light to symbols.

The ASCII shader system makes a tiny grayscale image. The ASCII layer samples that image, adds dither, then chooses symbols. Hover and click operate on the same grid.

01. Shader field to glyph field

Fragment shader noise + ripple falloff + time gray field Read pixels tiny canvas one cell each brightness Quantize brightness + Bayer dither symbol index · + * ✶

02. Cells sample light.

Each grid cell reads local brightness. Dense light becomes dense symbols.

03. Threshold pattern breaks bands.

A Bayer matrix nudges neighboring cells differently, then time adds a small motion term.

04. Hover and click edit grid state.

Hover turns cells on. Click injects energy into a small damped wave simulation.

05. Same shader, logo mask.

The card mark samples the same field, but only emits symbols inside a Pave-shaped mask.