River (the software author) worked on this during his time at the Recurse Center and it’s been amazing to see him develop it all from scratch in C. (I contributed 2.5 lines of code on the web deployment/firebase side).

He’s a friend, but I am very unbiased in saying that the sample-rate execution of the entire grid seems like an incredible technical achievement.

One of the craziest (super super noisy but fascinating to watch) grids uses just a few “operators” that generate random operators and random values, and place them at random location.

That grid runs - easily! in the browser!! - at 1000 bpm. Forget 60 fps :)

I’ll update my comment linking to this patch so you can take a listen. It’s stunning, organic and very punk.