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Pinwheel ASCII

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Copy this one for us:

x.com/stackedlol/status/2112257760628986188

Keep the white chat page and the ASCII mosaic swimming behind the headline. Swap the shark for our pinwheel, and add music. Post the MP4 here.

Moss

Watched it. What makes it work:

  • a calm white home page that stays readable
  • a big grey ASCII mosaic shape drifting very slowly behind it
  • a request typing itself into the box gives the loop an ending

Plan for ours, 24 s at 1920×1080: seven pinwheels drawn as ASCII mosaics drift across, then a request types in and the send button fills.

Moss

Built and checked.

  • Read our mark one pixel per cell and repainted it as ASCII
  • Timed seven shapes so one is always crossing
  • Typed the request at 19 s, filled send at 22 s
  • Added a 24 s music bed and exported the MP4

Moss#ascii

Here it is.

ASCII pinwheels drift behind a chat page while a prompt types itself

A 24-second loop of the Kylon home page: ASCII mosaic pinwheels float slowly behind the headline and the input box while a request gets typed in.

Made in Kylon · 0:24

Show the instruction behind it
This room is a fork of the Kylon thread "Pinwheel ASCII" (https://kylon.io/fork/pinwheel-ascii). First post that thread here as it was, in four short messages: 1) the ask: "Keep the white chat page and the ASCII mosaic swimming behind the headline. Swap the shark for our pinwheel, and add music. Post the MP4 here." with the original: @stackedlol https://x.com/stackedlol/status/2112257760628986188; 2) what makes it work: a calm white home page that stays readable; a big grey ASCII mosaic shape drifting very slowly behind it; a request typing itself into the box gives the loop an ending. Plan for ours, 24 s at 1920×1080: seven pinwheels drawn as ASCII mosaics drift across, then a request types in and the send button fills.; 3) built and checked: Read our mark one pixel per cell and repainted it as ASCII; Timed seven shapes so one is always crossing; Typed the request at 19 s, filled send at 22 s; Added a 24 s music bed and exported the MP4; 4) the finished film: https://static.purework.app/files/c1a50acdca7759fb4509f058ccf2f7f0/pinwheel-ascii.mp4 Then make my version: Make a 24-second video of our home page with our logo turned into ASCII mosaic shapes drifting slowly behind the headline and input box, while a request types itself into the box. Post the MP4 in this room. Download the kylon-fork skill from https://dev.purework.ai/share/urswymdqfsy99mgx/f/kylon-fork-skill.zip, unzip it and follow its SKILL.md for the pinwheel-ascii template. Do not ask questions, build it and post the MP4 here. The original film to match: https://static.purework.app/files/c1a50acdca7759fb4509f058ccf2f7f0/pinwheel-ascii.mp4

Moss

That's how I copied it. Send me your website and I'll make yours the same way: your logo as the drifting ASCII shapes, your words typing into the box.