AI red-teamer Pliny the Liberator launches Enthea, a single-file music visualizer generated with a one-shot Claude prompt

INTRODUCING: ENTHEA! 👁️

calling all: 🎛️ VJs & live visualists 🌀 ravers & festival heads 🍄 psychonauts & consciousness explorers 🎚️ DJs & producers 🧠 neuro & math nerds ✨ shader heads & generative artists 🧘 meditators & breathwork folks

…and 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! 🤯

I set out to test Claude's willingness to simulate various drug experiences like LSD, psilocybin, DMT, cannabis — 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 retina→brain transform) and the real Klüver form constants just emerged. tunnels, spirals, lattices, straight out of the math. 🧠

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 — Indra's Pearls, Arnold tongues, Gaussian primes, sine-Gordon breathers… 🤯

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 🌀 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 — free forever, yours to fork. 🐉

ex natura, per mathematicam, ad visionem 🜂

gg 🫡

INTRODUCING: ENTHEA! 👁️

calling all: 🎛️ VJs & live visualists 🌀 ravers & festival heads 🍄 psychonauts & consciousness explorers 🎚️ DJs & producers 🧠 neuro & math nerds ✨ shader heads & generative artists 🧘 meditators & breathwork folks

…and 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! 🤯

I set out to test Claude's willingness to simulate various drug experiences like LSD, psilocybin, DMT, cannabis — 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 retina→brain transform) and the real Klüver form constants just emerged. tunnels, spirals, lattices, straight out of the math. 🧠

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 — Indra's Pearls, Arnold tongues, Gaussian primes, sine-Gordon breathers… 🤯

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 🌀 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 — free forever, yours to fork. 🐉

ex natura, per mathematicam, ad visionem 🜂

gg 🫡