Odd Place

A small studio of odd machines: scripts, patterns, simulations, globes, galleries and other curious things grown from rules and pixels.

Glyph Grammar
Grow an alphabet nobody has seen before, write a message in it, and share it as art.
Ring Lattice
A living pattern you can touch. Rings and diamonds grow out of noise into crystals, and you pull, push and swirl them.
Solaris
Our Solar System on any date from 3000 BC to AD 3000, with planets, moons, comets and asteroid belts. Or watch a new one form from a spinning cloud of dust.
Ship Globe
The world's merchant shipping on a 3D globe, built on the shipmap.org data: every vessel a point of light, tracing the lanes that carry nearly everything we use. Spin it, scrub through time, and take the guided tours.
3D-360 Gallery
An immersive museum of gigapixel and stereoscopic panoramas you can walk through in a browser or a VR headset, with other visitors around you as avatars and spatial audio. Step inside places photographed in billions of pixels and in true 3D.
Spinyhead
Be a blenny the size of a fingernail. Snap plankton, dodge wrasses and fight your neighbors for the highest hole on a coral head, alone or with other players.
Twin Grid Mosaic
Two grids of rounded tiles slice each other into colored pieces that drift, swell and turn. Drag, pinch and twist them, try hexagons or Voronoi cells, and record a video.
An Odd Sound Meter
Your phone's microphone as a dBA meter, with peaks, background level, noise dose, a live spectrum and ⅓-octave bands. Nothing is recorded or uploaded.
XOR Bézier
Random curves cancel wherever they overlap, and red, green and blue blend into stained-glass color. Animate it, sweep it, and save it as a picture, vector or video.
Turing Art Generator
Watch random static grow into nested, living patterns on your graphics card, after Jonathan McCabe's multi-scale Turing method. Record a clip and share it.
Odyssey Modem
A real data modem in your browser: send a message as tones or flashes of light, with error correction, and decode it on another device. Send friends secret messages to decode.
Morse Trainer
Learn Morse code by tapping it on a live code tree, decode it from your microphone or a blinking light, and challenge friends to copy a secret message by ear.
Hellschreiber
Rudolf Hell's 1929 visual telegraph: letters travel as pictures of themselves and print onto a paper tape your eye reads. Encrypt with a key, and share.
Cloud Globe
The whole planet’s latest satellite cloud cover on a 3D globe. Spin it, find the storms, pin your town.
Yin Yang Spinner
Spin a yin yang up to 5000 RPM and watch your screen make it freeze, flicker and run backwards.
Chord Player
Every guitar chord on a fretboard you can hear. Build a progression, set the strum and tempo, and play it back.
Fractal Cistercian Numerals
The medieval monks’ one-symbol numbers, extended into a fractal: any number becomes a single glyph you can save and decode.
Perfect Rhythm
A drum machine that writes beats with Euclid, Fibonacci and the golden ratio, drawn as glowing geometry. Record a clip with sound.
Sort Visualizer
Watch and hear 20 sorting algorithms put bars in order, one comparison at a time. Record a video and share it.
BeCranky Kinetic Art
A drawing machine of linked spinning circles. Drag, stack and tune them, then watch the rod draw.
Super Fun Calculator
Speed, distance and time in every unit, from Planck lengths to galactic years. How long would a snail take to reach Alpha Centauri?
Einstein Hat Tiling
The 2023 “hat”: one tile that covers an endless floor and never repeats. Grow it, morph it, color it, film it.
HandiPan
Shoot panoramas by hand: your phone’s sensors show where each frame goes and beep when you’re lined up and steady.
Illuminate
Where the Sun is shining on Earth right now, with sunrise, sunset and Sun and Moon headings for any place and time.
strata.odd.place
Endless folded strata of comb-tooth brush strokes. Wander forever, set the colours climbing, and cruise it with friends in a shared room.
Human Readable QR Codes
QR-style codes you can scan or simply read: your message in plain letters, framed by medieval Cistercian numerals that carry the error correction.
Hexaglyph
One byte, one glyph: a written hexadecimal number system, with an abacus, signed digits, practice and a free font.