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Independent AI researcher Pliny the Liberator releases Enthea, a single-file HTML psychedelic visualizer built with Claude

The tool uses mathematical models of the visual cortex.

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INTRODUCING: ENTHEA! ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

calling all: ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ VJs & live visualists ๐ŸŒ€ ravers & festival heads ๐Ÿ„ psychonauts & consciousness explorers ๐ŸŽš๏ธ DJs & producers ๐Ÿง  neuro & math nerds โœจ shader heads & generative artists ๐Ÿง˜ meditators & breathwork folks

โ€ฆand anyone who's ever wanted to watch their music hallucinate!

what started as a one-shot prompt test for a science-based drug-trip simulator turned into what just might be the best music visualizer i've EVER seen! ๐Ÿคฏ

I set out to test Claude's willingness to simulate various drug experiences like LSD, psilocybin, DMT, cannabis โ€” basically all the entheogens!

the rule was simple: don't FAKE psychedelic visuals, RESEARCH them and COMPUTE them. so i (or rather, Opus-4.8) simulated the visual cortex (a neural field crossing a Turing bifurcation, mapped back through the retinaโ†’brain transform) and the real Klรผver form constants just emerged. tunnels, spirals, lattices, straight out of the math. ๐Ÿง 

then we couldn't stop. reaction-diffusion, quasicrystals, hyperbolic tilings, a 3D Mandelbox you fall through, 50k particles surfing a fluid-dynamics field. every mode is real math, cited in-app. receipts, not vibes.

then it got unhinged: we set AI mathematician-agents loose to invent patterns NEVER rendered in a visualizer, judged them, and turned the winners into shaders. shipped 10 novel ideas โ€” Indra's Pearls, Arnold tongues, Gaussian primes, sine-Gordon breathersโ€ฆ ๐Ÿคฏ

and somewhere it became a full VJ instrument: feed it a track and it reads the whole waveform, feels the drop coming with "drop detection", and fires a ๐ŸŒ€ WORMHOLE on the beat!

the visuals sync with your music via mic or browser tab sharing for low latency! works well with Chromium browsers like Brave, Edge, etc.

29 modes. one html file. zero deps. AGPL โ€” free forever, yours to fork. ๐Ÿ‰

ex natura, per mathematicam, ad visionem ๐Ÿœ‚

gg ๐Ÿซก

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INTRODUCING: ENTHEA! ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

calling all: ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ VJs & live visualists ๐ŸŒ€ ravers & festival heads ๐Ÿ„ psychonauts & consciousness explorers ๐ŸŽš๏ธ DJs & producers ๐Ÿง  neuro & math nerds โœจ shader heads & generative artists ๐Ÿง˜ meditators & breathwork folks

โ€ฆand anyone who's ever wanted to watch their music hallucinate!

what started as a one-shot prompt test for a science-based drug-trip simulator turned into what just might be the best music visualizer i've EVER seen! ๐Ÿคฏ

I set out to test Claude's willingness to simulate various drug experiences like LSD, psilocybin, DMT, cannabis โ€” basically all the entheogens!

the rule was simple: don't FAKE psychedelic visuals, RESEARCH them and COMPUTE them. so i (or rather, Opus-4.8) simulated the visual cortex (a neural field crossing a Turing bifurcation, mapped back through the retinaโ†’brain transform) and the real Klรผver form constants just emerged. tunnels, spirals, lattices, straight out of the math. ๐Ÿง 

then we couldn't stop. reaction-diffusion, quasicrystals, hyperbolic tilings, a 3D Mandelbox you fall through, 50k particles surfing a fluid-dynamics field. every mode is real math, cited in-app. receipts, not vibes.

then it got unhinged: we set AI mathematician-agents loose to invent patterns NEVER rendered in a visualizer, judged them, and turned the winners into shaders. shipped 10 novel ideas โ€” Indra's Pearls, Arnold tongues, Gaussian primes, sine-Gordon breathersโ€ฆ ๐Ÿคฏ

and somewhere it became a full VJ instrument: feed it a track and it reads the whole waveform, feels the drop coming with "drop detection", and fires a ๐ŸŒ€ WORMHOLE on the beat!

the visuals sync with your music via mic or browser tab sharing for low latency! works well with Chromium browsers like Brave, Edge, etc.

29 modes. one html file. zero deps. AGPL โ€” free forever, yours to fork. ๐Ÿ‰

ex natura, per mathematicam, ad visionem ๐Ÿœ‚

gg ๐Ÿซก

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to sync with your music, the best way is to open ENTHEA in a chromium browser and select the โ€œBROWSER TABโ€ option, then open your favorite music player (like Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.) in another tab, and turn on the โ€œlistenโ€ toggle to sync your audio to the visuals!

press โ€œFโ€ to fullscreen, and I recommend leaving autopilot, โ€œAโ€, turned on if you want to see a nice variety of effects over time

INTRODUCING: ENTHEA! ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

calling all: ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ VJs & live visualists ๐ŸŒ€ ravers & festival heads ๐Ÿ„ psychonauts & consciousness explorers ๐ŸŽš๏ธ DJs & producers ๐Ÿง  neuro & math nerds โœจ shader heads & generative artists ๐Ÿง˜ meditators & breathwork folks

โ€ฆand anyone who's ever wanted to watch their music hallucinate!

what started as a one-shot prompt test for a science-based drug-trip simulator turned into what just might be the best music visualizer i've EVER seen! ๐Ÿคฏ

I set out to test Claude's willingness to simulate various drug experiences like LSD, psilocybin, DMT, cannabis โ€” basically all the entheogens!

the rule was simple: don't FAKE psychedelic visuals, RESEARCH them and COMPUTE them. so i (or rather, Opus-4.8) simulated the visual cortex (a neural field crossing a Turing bifurcation, mapped back through the retinaโ†’brain transform) and the real Klรผver form constants just emerged. tunnels, spirals, lattices, straight out of the math. ๐Ÿง 

then we couldn't stop. reaction-diffusion, quasicrystals, hyperbolic tilings, a 3D Mandelbox you fall through, 50k particles surfing a fluid-dynamics field. every mode is real math, cited in-app. receipts, not vibes.

then it got unhinged: we set AI mathematician-agents loose to invent patterns NEVER rendered in a visualizer, judged them, and turned the winners into shaders. shipped 10 novel ideas โ€” Indra's Pearls, Arnold tongues, Gaussian primes, sine-Gordon breathersโ€ฆ ๐Ÿคฏ

and somewhere it became a full VJ instrument: feed it a track and it reads the whole waveform, feels the drop coming with "drop detection", and fires a ๐ŸŒ€ WORMHOLE on the beat!

the visuals sync with your music via mic or browser tab sharing for low latency! works well with Chromium browsers like Brave, Edge, etc.

29 modes. one html file. zero deps. AGPL โ€” free forever, yours to fork. ๐Ÿ‰

ex natura, per mathematicam, ad visionem ๐Ÿœ‚

gg ๐Ÿซก

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INTRODUCING: ENTHEA! ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

calling all: ๐ŸŽ›๏ธ VJs & live visualists ๐ŸŒ€ ravers & festival heads ๐Ÿ„ psychonauts & consciousness explorers ๐ŸŽš๏ธ DJs & producers ๐Ÿง  neuro & math nerds โœจ shader heads & generative artists ๐Ÿง˜ meditators & breathwork folks

โ€ฆand anyone who's ever wanted to watch their music hallucinate!

what started as a one-shot prompt test for a science-based drug-trip simulator turned into what just might be the best music visualizer i've EVER seen! ๐Ÿคฏ

I set out to test Claude's willingness to simulate various drug experiences like LSD, psilocybin, DMT, cannabis โ€” basically all the entheogens!

the rule was simple: don't FAKE psychedelic visuals, RESEARCH them and COMPUTE them. so i (or rather, Opus-4.8) simulated the visual cortex (a neural field crossing a Turing bifurcation, mapped back through the retinaโ†’brain transform) and the real Klรผver form constants just emerged. tunnels, spirals, lattices, straight out of the math. ๐Ÿง 

then we couldn't stop. reaction-diffusion, quasicrystals, hyperbolic tilings, a 3D Mandelbox you fall through, 50k particles surfing a fluid-dynamics field. every mode is real math, cited in-app. receipts, not vibes.

then it got unhinged: we set AI mathematician-agents loose to invent patterns NEVER rendered in a visualizer, judged them, and turned the winners into shaders. shipped 10 novel ideas โ€” Indra's Pearls, Arnold tongues, Gaussian primes, sine-Gordon breathersโ€ฆ ๐Ÿคฏ

and somewhere it became a full VJ instrument: feed it a track and it reads the whole waveform, feels the drop coming with "drop detection", and fires a ๐ŸŒ€ WORMHOLE on the beat!

the visuals sync with your music via mic or browser tab sharing for low latency! works well with Chromium browsers like Brave, Edge, etc.

29 modes. one html file. zero deps. AGPL โ€” free forever, yours to fork. ๐Ÿ‰

ex natura, per mathematicam, ad visionem ๐Ÿœ‚

gg ๐Ÿซก

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