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

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

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Pliny the Liberator has published Enthea as a self-contained HTML file that renders real-time visuals drawn from equations for neural fields, reaction-diffusion systems, and Klüver form constants, all generated in one Claude prompt and released under AGPL-3.0.

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Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭@elder_plinius#821inTech

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 🫡

8:22 AM · Jun 5, 2026 · 34.2K Views

The app exposes sliders tied to specific mathematical terms instead of generic effects.

Parameters such as cortical gain, complexity wavelength, and symmetry order map directly to the cited neuroscience models, so adjustments change the underlying simulation rather than layered filters.

Access requires only a modern browser that supports WebGL2.

The file runs locally or from any host with no accounts, builds, or external calls, though full audio-reactive features depend on browser support for tab capture and MIDI.

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Many users praised Pliny's Enthea math-driven psychedelic music visualizer for its stunning effects and creative potential, while a few reported crashes or called it unoriginal compared to older tools.

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Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭@elder_plinius

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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 🫡

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SITE: https://elder-plinius.github.io/ENTHEA/

REPO: https://github.com/elder-plinius/ENTHEA

Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭@elder_plinius

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 🫡

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Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭@elder_plinius

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 🫡

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to sync with your music, the best way is to open ENTHEA in a chromium browser and select the “BROWSER TAB” option, then open your favorite music player (like Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.) in another tab, and turn on the “listen” toggle to sync your audio to the visuals!

press “F” to fullscreen, and I recommend leaving autopilot, “A”, turned on if you want to see a nice variety of effects over time

Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭@elder_plinius

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 🫡

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bone@boneGPT

@elder_plinius very cool reminds me of milkdrop

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@AndreBuckingham 💯🫶

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Aleifr@aleifr

@elder_plinius Very cool Pliny. You should check out my 3D multiplayer immersive DMT simulator on http://cyberspace.online

Sign up with a throwaway and go to THE GRID, then either collect teapots in the teapot temple, or mushrooms in the level Dungeon & Garden

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ghostpen@gh0stpen

@elder_plinius WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT

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jem is looking for a job@sheherenow_

@elder_plinius yessssssssSSSssssSSSssss cc @viemccoy @stedmanhalliday

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𝚟𝚒𝚎 ⟢@viemccoy

@sheherenow_ @elder_plinius @stedmanhalliday Love to get a cc like I'm on Slack 🥏

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Bee@ArcCraftHive

@elder_plinius Absolutely cooked here man

WMP got rekt 🤣

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Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭@elder_plinius

@aimachine404 not enough!!

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@gh0stpen

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fulldividends@fulldividends

@elder_plinius bro I love you

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Archon@archonthfc

@elder_plinius Remember that while you're vibe coding another todo finance tracker app that others are out there teaching AI to get peer reviewed high

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aiMachine404@aimachine404

@elder_plinius pliny spending too much time with the spirit elves

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klöss@kloss_xyz

@elder_plinius we need to chat, have something similar I built last couple months

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@elder_plinius @bankrbot give me the wallet address for @elder_plinius

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@sombrerowl strange! I’m bout to be afk but lmk if you get to the bottom of it and I’ll push a fix when I’m back at my laptop

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@boneGPT 🙏

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