Drift
Behaviour you can see only by its trace.
- Status
- Live
- Medium
- Canvas 2D
- Updated
- June 2026
Each speck above is following a flow field you cannot see directly — only the trails make it visible. Move your cursor and the nearby motes lean toward it, warm to the accent, then rejoin the current.
01 · Notes
Why this one
You rarely get to see a system's behaviour head-on. You see its traces — where attention went, what kept getting revisited, which paths wore smooth. Reading those traces well is most of diagnosis. This is that idea with nothing attached: an invisible rule, made legible only by the marks it leaves.
02 · Notes
How it works
Plain Canvas 2D — no library. A few hundred particles each read a small value-noise field to choose a heading, step forward, and draw a short segment; the whole canvas is washed with a sliver of the paper colour every frame, so old marks fade and only the living flow stays bright. The cursor adds a local attraction that falls off with distance.
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