#webcanvas

ASCII visualiser — study #01

Built a browser visualiser that speaks in glyphs instead of bars. ASCII as coded language → misrecognition → APD. Spacebar swaps the symbol on beat; keys punch the signal (I invert, G glitch burst, E edge-stretch, S stutter, N noise surge, B blackout, Z/X zoom, H heavy smear). Everything is grayscale, photocopy-crushed, and a little wrong.

This clip uses Emptyset’s Fragment as the motion reference. Next: feed signal // noise stems through this, then back out through The Interpreter — CRTs, waveform/oscilloscope, VHS and Hi-8 — for another round of recursive distortion until the caption becomes the sound.

Try it out: https://processzine.org/visualiser