Liquid Shape Distortions 🌀
Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip
Create psychedelic art using liquid motion, distortion, shadows and light. This tool is free, and works in real-time in the browser.
This project was inspired by drum & bass / acid techno music, and 90s rave posters.
Use this to create art for a music video, concert posters, stylized animations in creative projects, or simply to enjoy alongside some fine music.
Use the full control menu (top-right) to set a custom canvas size, adjust animation speed, control pattern and colours, etc...
You can export your creation as an image or video afterwards.
How this works: this tool uses WebGL shaders to create a real-time animation (with a trippy liquid / shadow / blur aesthetic).
The animation is created using a random seed position and mixes in random noise (fractal brownian motion, 3D simplex noise), so each time you re-run it you're creating a unique piece of art.
Controls / hotkeys:
- 🎲: randomize all inputs [r]
- ⏯️: pause/play the animation [space]
- 📷: save a screenshot image [s]
- 🎥: start and stop video export [v]
- 🔊: start/stop music [m]
This tool is completely free, open source (MIT license), without any paywalls or premium options. You are welcome to use it for personal or commercial purposes.
If you found this tool useful, feel free to buy me a coffee. My name is Alan, and I enjoy building open source software for art, animation, games, and more. This would be much appreciated during late-night coding sessions!
The code used to create the animation is resource-intensive, so it may run with some lag if your computer doesn't have enough computing power, too many tabs open, low battery, etc.
If the video export feature does not work for you, please try a free screen-recording tool such as OBS Studio.
This project is coded using webgl shaders, vanilla Javascript, HTML5 canvas, and CSS (see github repo). Video creation and encoding is done using mp4 muxer.
The song used is Fahrenheit Fair Enough by Telefon Tel Aviv.
If you enjoyed this, you may be interested in my other free / open source projects:
- Particular Drift: turn photos into flowing particle animations
- Liquid Logo: turn logos and icons into liquid metal animations
- Video-to-ASCII: turn videos into ASCII pixel art
- Shape Shimmer: turn photos into funky wave animations
- Colliding Scopes: turn photos into kaleidoscope animations
- Manual Brick Breaker: play brick breaker by waving your hands around
Feel free to reach out to discuss, ask questions, or just to say hi! You can find me @stereo.drift on instagram, or through the other places below :)