Ascii Wave
A dark, atmospheric digital composition featuring a deep navy-black background (#0b0f24) that creates a night-like ambiance. The central focus is a large rectangular area filled with cyan-colored asterisk characters (*) arranged in a dense grid pattern, creating a pixelated or ASCII art effect. The cyan characters (#16ded7) are bright and luminous against the dark background, producing a strong contrast. Overlaying this grid is a series of horizontal wavy lines in dark blue/purple tones that flow from left to right, creating a sine wave pattern with smooth, undulating curves. These waves appear to act as a mask or boundary for the ASCII characters, causing them to fade in and out along the wave contours. The waves have a soft, feathered edge quality with moderate softness (0.52), giving them a slightly blurred appearance. The overall effect suggests digital data flow or a technological visualization, with the combination of static ASCII characters and dynamic wave patterns creating a sense of movement and energy. A subtle film grain texture overlays the entire composition, adding a slight noise and vintage digital quality. The composition has a cyberpunk or hacker aesthetic, with the bright cyan glowing characters creating an almost neon-like quality against the dark void.
Usage
The preset as a Vue component. Paste it into a page, or open it in the editor to change it first.
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A dark, atmospheric shader effect featuring a deep navy-black background (#060f1f) that transitions into a gradient of blue tones. The composition uses an ASCII art technique with wavy, undulating patterns created by tilde (~) and asterisk (*) characters in light cyan (#a8d5e2). These characters form horizontal wave lines that flow across the canvas with a sine wave distortion, creating a sense of motion and fluidity. The waves appear to emanate from the bottom-right corner and spread diagonally upward toward the top-left, with density decreasing as they move away from their origin point. The underlying blue base layer (#3a6b8c) provides depth and contrast. A subtle film grain texture overlays the entire composition at low opacity (0.05), adding a vintage, analog quality and slight visual noise. The overall effect creates a cyberpunk or retro-digital aesthetic with a sense of flowing energy or data streams. The spatial arrangement suggests depth through the gradient of character density, with denser patterns in the lower-right transitioning to sparse patterns in the upper-left.
- Ascii Wave 3
A dark, cyberpunk-themed shader effect featuring a deep navy-black background (#0b0f24) with horizontal wavy lines creating a digital scanline aesthetic. The composition consists of repeating rows of cyan-colored wavy patterns (~) interspersed with small asterisk (*) characters, creating a dense ASCII art texture. The waves appear to flow horizontally across the screen with a sinusoidal motion, rendered in bright cyan (#16ded7) with soft edges and moderate opacity. The characters are rendered in a monospace font (Space Mono) at regular intervals, creating a grid-like structure. A subtle film grain overlay adds texture and visual noise throughout the entire composition, enhancing the retro digital/terminal aesthetic. The overall effect suggests data streams, digital rain, or a computer terminal interface with an animated wave pattern moving through the ASCII characters. The cyan waves are masked to the ASCII layer, creating a cohesive visual relationship between the wave animation and the character display. The blend mode and layering create depth while maintaining the flat, digital aesthetic typical of cyberpunk or hacker-themed interfaces.
- Ascii Wave 4
A dark, cyberpunk-themed shader effect featuring a deep navy-black background (#0b0f24) with a dense grid pattern of wavy horizontal lines in cyan (#16ded7) and white. The lines are created by ASCII characters (〜 and *) arranged in a repeating pattern across the entire canvas. Overlaid on this grid are animated sine waves at a 157-degree angle that create a flowing, undulating motion through the character field. The waves have a soft, feathered edge with 0.52 softness, giving them a glowing, ethereal quality. The cyan waves appear to modulate the visibility of the ASCII characters beneath them, creating a masking effect where characters are more visible within the wave paths. A subtle purple (#5413ed) color layer sits beneath the wave effect, adding depth. The entire composition is overlaid with a fine film grain texture at 0.05 strength, creating a subtle noise pattern that enhances the digital, retro-computer aesthetic. The effect has a strong vertical flow with the waves moving diagonally, creating a sense of motion and energy. The overall mood is technological, mysterious, and reminiscent of 1980s-90s computer graphics or digital rain effects.
- Optical Prism 2
A bright white canvas lit by a soft prismatic beam rising from the lower-right corner. The beam fans out into a wide, diffused rainbow that drifts slowly through cyan, light blue, magenta and pink, with a fine film grain over the whole composition.
- Optical Prism 4
A white canvas lit by a prismatic beam falling from the top edge. The light splits right away and fans out into a wide, soft arc of color that cycles slowly through yellow-green, peach, magenta and pink, with a fine film grain over the whole composition.
- Afternoon Sunlight
A soft, minimalist shader effect displaying a subtle grayscale composition. The image features a light gray background (#c4c4c4) as the base layer, overlaid with delicate Worley noise patterns that create organic, cellular-like structures. The noise generates a subtle texture with variations between light taupe (#a69f9f) and off-white (#fcf8f0) tones, producing a gentle, cloud-like appearance. A linear blur effect at 36 degrees with high intensity (300) creates directional motion streaks that soften the entire composition, giving it a dreamy, ethereal quality. Chromatic aberration with minimal strength (0.15) introduces very subtle color fringing at the edges of the blur, with red offset at -1 and blue offset at 1, creating barely perceptible color separation. The overall effect is soft, diffused, and atmospheric with a muted, monochromatic palette dominated by grays and off-whites. The blur and noise work together to create a sense of gentle movement and organic flow across the canvas. The mood is calm, serene, and slightly abstract.
