Tools
186 small generative tools for backgrounds, patterns, textures and photo effects. Every result comes from a seed, so any image can be reproduced from its link. Everything runs in the browser and exports as PNG, SVG or a looping video.
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Shutter
Staggered gradient panels. Rows split on their own breaks, so no seam runs the full height.
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Halo
Soft mesh-gradient backgrounds from overlapping colour blobs, with film grain.
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Orb
Glossy 3D orbs with highlights and soft shadows, scattered, in a row or clustered on a gradient.
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Stripe
Bands of flat colour at any angle, with uneven widths and wavy, warped edges that travel in motion.
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Sweep
Conic gradients: colour turning around a centre, smooth or banded, in rings that shear against each other.
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Horizon
Retro sunsets: banded skies, a sun sliced by widening cuts, mountains and a perspective grid that scrolls.
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Tide
Layered landscapes: hills, peaks or waves stacked back to front in inks that fade into the distance.
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Spectrum
Pixel auroras: chunky rainbow streams on a hot chromatic ramp, flooding across a black dot-grid field.
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Spray
Sprayed neon washes: fluorescent drip streaks bleeding over soft airbrushed pastel patches.
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Thermal
A turbulent heat map cut into hot-ramp bands and printed through a screen of rings and dots.
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Mesh
Mesh gradients: a lattice of coloured control points blended smoothly across the canvas.
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Holo
Holographic foil: rippling rainbow bands, fine diffraction lines, a bright sheen and optional embossed motifs.
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Blend
Stepped colour blends between key colours in RGB, HSL or OKLCH, as bands, rings or chips with hex codes.
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Glass
Frosted glass cards and panes floating over soft colour blobs, with highlights, rims and shadows.
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Bokeh
Out-of-focus lights: soft discs and hexagons in layers of depth over a dark haze.
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Current
Wide stripes of flowing gradient colour that sweep across the frame or curve into huge arcs.
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Streamer
Broad translucent silk ribbons of gradient colour that twist and sweep across a deep glowing ground.
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Reeded
Soft drifting colour seen through a panel of fluted glass, split and refracted reed by reed.
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Dune
Softly lit hills or dunes stacked back into the haze under a glowing sky, drifting in slow parallax.
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Rays
Soft beams of light streaming from above, a corner or the centre through hazy colour, with floating dust.
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Stained
A full screen of stained glass lit from behind: jewel panes in lead, glowing as a slow light passes behind them.
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Borealis
Folding curtains of northern lights rippling over a night sky, with stars and a dark hill, forest or lake horizon.
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Wash
Watercolour pools that bleed into each other on white paper, with dark dried edges and speckled pigment.
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Leak
Film light leaks: warm glowing burns bleeding in from the frame edges, with a flare streak and soft ghosts.
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Iris
Rainbow light thrown by a prism across a softly lit wall, with window light, bright flecks and glints.
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Morph
Frosted spheres and melting blobs with iridescent wrapped gradients, floating in grainy pastel space.
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Lenticular
Vertical slats of rainbow gradient that bend and shift colour through a lens-like eye in the middle.
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Chroma
Defocused light smears on black, each split into rainbow fringes by chromatic aberration, with dust and scratches.
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Truchet
Truchet tiles. Arcs, diagonals, triangles and quarter discs that knit into mazes and flows.
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Tessera
Recursive block compositions. Poster grids of flat colour with discs, half discs and stripes.
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Burst
Radial rays, wheels and spirals. Wedges fan out from a centre, with rings you can twist.
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Tunnel
Nested polygons shrinking toward a vanishing point, twisting as they go. Loops as an endless zoom.
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Mandala
Rotational symmetry in rings: petals, dots, arcs and spokes repeated around a centre, drawn or filled.
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Sprite
A grid of mirrored pixel creatures, each with a second frame, so the crowd blinks and shuffles in motion.
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Cellular
Voronoi cells cut exactly from jittered, scattered or clustered seeds, relaxed, rounded and breathing.
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Honeycomb
Hexagon grids toned by noise, with shrinking cells, outlines and a tumbling-blocks cube illusion.
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Herringbone
Parquet and brick bonds: herringbone, chevron, basket weave, running and stack, at any angle.
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Bulge
Checkerboards, stripes and dot grids warped by lenses that bulge, pinch, twist or ripple.
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Labyrinth
Seeded mazes drawn as walls or corridors, with the solved route and a runner that travels it.
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Tartan
Plaid woven from a seeded, mirrored sett of thread stripes, with twill texture and a sliding cloth.
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Motif
Bauhaus tile grids of quarter discs, arches, rings, triangles and stripes in turned, flat colour.
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Isometric
Isometric cube heightmaps from a noise field: islands or endless terrain, shaded, with a water line.
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Banner
Symmetrical pixel banners: woven diamonds, crosses and zigzags inside a border of flickering static.
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Patchwork
Overlapping blobs and stepped blocks, each filled with its own repeating glyph: rings, pluses, stripes, squares, dots.
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Circuit
A seamless circuit board: columns of printed pattern blocks crossed by routed traces, pads and vias.
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Kaleido
Pixel-art pattern collage folded into a kaleidoscope: stripes, steps, bursts and checks mirrored 2, 4 or 8 ways.
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Layout
Modular grid compositions: blocks, dot matrices, rules, gradients, discs and big numerals on a column grid.
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Chain
Outlined circles and rounded squares on a grid, bridged into capsules, chains and clusters with one clean line.
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Plate
A reference chart of colour blocks holding marbling, tendrils, fans, rings and spikes, captioned in mono.
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Pulse
Mirrored pixel rings spreading from a quiet centre: a banner field with room for a headline.
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Sawtooth
Bold bands whose zigzag edges nest into each other: chevrons, scallops, arcs or square stairs.
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Eddy
Op-art stripes that bend around hidden centres into rings, eyes, saddles, spokes and spirals.
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Loom
Chunky pixel bands, each woven with its own motif: bricks, plaids, checks, dithers, stairs and dots.
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Selvedge
Stacked ribbons, each with its own rhythm of vertical stripes, split by thin gaps and pinked edges.
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Botanic
A seamless hand-drawn repeat of daisies, tulips, buds and leaves in thick marker line with flat fills.
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Glyphmap
Grids of small glyphs whose shape and ink follow the bands of a flowing noise field.
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Blockgrid
Pixel compositions: noise patches, hard coarse blocks and stray speckle on a fine square grid.
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Gingham
Woven checks: gingham, windowpane, buffalo check and houndstooth, with overprinted crossings.
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Polka
Polka dots on square or staggered grids, with two sizes, rings, slits, size gradients and drop shadows.
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Memphis
Eighties confetti: squiggles, zigzags, triangles, half discs and dash grids scattered in bright inks.
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Harlequin
Harlequin diamond checks with argyle lines, dotted joints, stretched rhombi and colour runs.
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Knit
Knitted fabric stitch by stitch, with fair-isle snowflakes, diamonds, hearts and stripes, and ribbed edges.
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Zellige
Islamic star tilings: 8-fold and 6-fold stars with interlaced straps, glazed tiles and grout lines.
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Scales
Overlapping fish scales, pointed dragon scales and shingles, shaded and shimmering.
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Cloud
Puffy cartoon clouds with flat bottoms on a sky gradient, or engraved toile style, drifting and wrapping.
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Mod
Mid-century tiles of paired half discs in two quiet tones, with warm sparkles and a slow wave of flips.
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Flypost
Fly-poster backgrounds: curving colour bands that break into stripes, punched blocks and a sheet of tiny type.
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Festival
Festival bill graphics: chunky ink patches, one long freehand doodle and a scatter of joined-up star dots.
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Crest
Mirror-symmetric emblems: checkered fields over upright panels, ringed discs and a turning centre ornament.
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Firework
Chrysanthemum bursts of dashed, twisting rays in stacked inks, tipped with beads under print grain.
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Partition
Panel collages from guillotine cuts, each panel dealt flat colour, stripes, chevrons, a dithered ramp or a grid.
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Survey
Pixel parcel posters: chunky noise-lit block fields under a hairline survey grid with ticks, labels and parcels.
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Chevron
Banded diagonal stripes mirrored into chevrons and diamonds, with an optional crosshatched overlap.
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Counter
A field of bars with a big figure or letter cut in, its bars flipped, shifted half a step or turned.
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Arc
Giant concentric colour bands rising from an edge or corner over a field of thin bars.
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Collage
Torn-paper riso collage: ragged bands of stripes, checks, dots and waves with scribbles and grain.
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Cutup
A riso landscape of rolling hills sliced into strips or tiles, each printed with its own screen and inks.
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Herbarium
A worn riso still life: acid-bright blobs, pixelated pressed plants, dithered blocks and registration marks.
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Bauhaus
Grid posters of circles, half discs, bars and triangles in primary inks, overlapping on cream paper.
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Groovy
Seventies wave stripes: swirling rainbow bands in warm inks, spreading from a corner or the centre.
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Ticket
Admission tickets with perforated stubs, notched corners, big numerals, a barcode and a rubber stamp.
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Agitprop
Constructivist posters: red and black bars on a hard diagonal, heavy angled type and a big disc.
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Blueprint
Technical drawings on a blue ground: a gear, floor plan or arch with dimensions, grid and a title block.
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Zine
Photocopied zine collage: halftone cut-outs, torn paper, tape, stamped block letters and marker scribbles.
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Tatter
A wall of ripped posters: torn layers of huge bold letters, paper-fibre edges, black grime and drips.
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Gesture
An expressive painting on cream canvas: a dry-brush swipe, paint blocks, drips and loose pencil scribbles.
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Isobar
Topographic contour lines traced from a noise field, with heavier index lines and colour ramps.
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Drift
Flow-field lines combed through noise. Evenly spaced streamlines in up to three inks.
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Ripple
Concentric rings from several centres. Moiré fringes where they cross, with optional wobble.
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Ridge
Stacked ridgelines with peaks gathered in the middle; each line masks the ones behind it.
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Lattice
Square, triangular or polar line grids warped by noise or lenses, like cloth pulled out of true.
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Hatch
Pen cross-hatching of a tone field: up to four layers of lines, each drawn only where the tone runs dark.
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Orbit
Geared roulette curves: a wheel rolling in or around a ring, its pen tracing layered, closed loops.
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Loop
Harmonograph traces: damped pendulums summed into one long curve that spirals, weaves and fades.
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Branch
Recursive branching growth: trees, coral fans, hanging roots, radial bursts and forked lightning.
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Constellation
A plexus network: points joined to near neighbours by lines that fade with distance.
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Reef
Ribbed sea fans forking up from the floor, their branches ticked like coral and tipped with knobs.
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Rope
Bundled strands flowing through a noise field like laid rope, with small glyphs riding along them.
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Guilloche
Banknote-style engraving: fine overlapping sine curves woven into rosettes, borders and wave fields.
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Oneline
One unbroken wiggling line that sweeps the canvas and swells into shapes, a disc or a word.
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Wireframe
Retro vector 3D: terrain, sphere, torus or lattice drawn in perspective lines that fade with depth.
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Radar
A radar scope with range rings, a bearing scale, a turning sweep and contacts that flare and fade.
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Spiral
One spiral groove that swells and thins with a hidden image, like a halftone cut into a vinyl record.
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Fieldline
Lines of force traced between positive and negative poles, with optional equipotential contours.
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Strand
Hundreds of fine gradient lines forming a flowing silk-like surface that glows at the crests.
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Startrail
A long-exposure night sky: hundreds of star trails circling the pole above dark hills or pines.
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Flux
Bundles of neon lines swirling like marbled ink across black, broken up with a dry, gritty print texture.
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Converge
Fine grey chevron lines on black that fold into a glowing X and drift slowly toward it, like depth.
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Strata
Posterised colour fields. Organic regions of flat colour with dithered, print-like edges.
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Speckle
Dot fields from noise. Halftone lattices, contour scatters and stipple, with optional symmetry.
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Grit
Paper, dust and film-grain textures: specks, blots, fibres and scratches, in any two inks.
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Marble
Poured marbling cut into flat paper shapes: warped bands of colour over a dark, starry ground.
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Colony
Soft cells that fuse where they touch, banded into rings of ink from rim to core, with grain or stipple.
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Tissue
Packed organic cells banded in ink from wall to nucleus, with branching veins cut across the sheet.
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Coast
A landmass printed as a dot screen, dissolving at the shore into two-ink speckle over a paper sea.
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Crumple
Crumpled paper: a faceted mesh of creases and folds, lit from one side in quiet paper tones.
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Timber
Wood grain: growth rings stretched along the board, whorled round knots, split into planks.
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Terrazzo
Terrazzo floors: irregular stone chips in two to five colours on speckled cement, with optional brass strips.
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Camo
Camouflage in woodland, desert, urban and digital pixel styles, built from stacked noise layers.
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Pelt
Animal prints: leopard rosettes, cheetah spots, zebra stripes, giraffe patches and snake scales.
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Silk
Draped satin that fills the frame: long soft folds with glossy crests and deep shadows, rippling in a breeze.
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Cosmos
A calm deep-space sky: soft glowing nebulae, a faint galactic band and layers of gently twinkling stars.
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Caustic
Sunlight caustics: a glowing, wobbling net of light on the floor of a pool or shallow sea.
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Ember
Glowing embers and fireflies drifting slowly upward through the dark over a warm pool of light.
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Rainglass
Raindrops on a night window, each a tiny lens holding sharp flipped lights from the blurred city behind.
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Candle
A candlelight vigil: soft flames at many depths in the dark, with warm halos, wax candles and hazy far lights.
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Blossom
Cherry and rose petals tumbling slowly through soft light, with near petals blurred by a shallow focus.
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Dapple
Dappled sunlight through leaves on a warm wall: soft flecks of sun, blurred leaf shadows and a gentle breeze.
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Wheat
A field of wheat or grass at golden hour: layered stalks rim-lit by a low sun, swaying in a slow breeze.
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Incense
Soft translucent wisps of smoke rising and curling through a shaft of light in a dark room.
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Distress
Grunge walls: dry-brush swipes breaking into streaks, splatter, scratches and torn paper on concrete.
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Offset
Worn two-ink offset prints: cloudy, streaky tone on two angled dot screens, off register, with ink wear and paper tooth.
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Sediment
Rock strata drawn in ink: wavy beds of stipple, scratchy hatching, fine lines and dark fill that slowly shift.
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Aerosol
Spray-painted walls: tapered strokes and round blobs in soft cores with a granular fringe of overspray droplets.
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Pack
Circle packing, largest first: solid discs, concentric rings, dots in circles or outlines.
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Blob
Organic blob shapes with smooth outlines: a hero, a scatter, a pebble stack or a grid. Great as SVG.
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Seal
A circular badge or sticker: a starburst, scalloped or wavy edge, ruled rings and text set round the circle.
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Pebble
Irregular pebbles strewn over a ground, their rims crumbled or screened away toward the edge.
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Sticker
A sheet of die-cut vinyl stickers: stars, hearts, bursts and bolts with thick white borders and soft shadows.
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Petal
Flat vector flowers: rings of round, pointed or heart-tipped petals as one hero bloom, a grid or a scatter.
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Squircle
A grid of superellipses morphing from pinched star to circle to square in a wave that travels across it.
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Doodle
A sheet of wobbly marker doodles: stars, hearts, spirals, zigzags and arrows, some hatched in. Lines boil in motion.
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Pleat
A sheet folded into wide accordion pleats, each face shaded from light to dark over one soft gradient.
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Cross
A cross of light: glowing, cut through a dark wall, traced in fine light, or on a hill at sunrise.
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Typeset
A noise field set in monospace type. Density ramps, blocks, binary, or a word of your own.
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Echo
A word repeated in a stack: stepped, scaled and turned copies, solid or outlined, ramping between two inks.
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Marquee
An LED dot-matrix sign: your message in a 5×7 bitmap font, lit over dim dots, scrolling seamlessly.
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Ribbon
Text set along waves, zigzags, circles or a spiral, letters turned to the path, in flowing parallel rows.
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Terrace
Terraced terrain typed on a monospace grid: one character per level, with contour edges set in their own ink.
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Bitmap
A word in a 5×7 bitmap font built from squares, dots, pluses or tiles, with a stepped 3D extrusion.
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Elastic
A bitmap word on a rubber grid: rows and columns stretch in waves so the letters bulge and pinch.
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Typegrid
A Swiss-style type poster: a heavy headline, numerals, columns of small text, rules and an index grid.
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Alphabet
Letter confetti: characters scattered, tiled or spiralled at many sizes and angles, some solid, some outlined.
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Cascade
Falling columns of monospace characters with bright heads and fading tails, looping exactly.
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Bitcrush
One-bit glitch posters: bands of moiré, scanlines, dithered noise and XOR blocks in one ink on one paper.
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Corrupt
Datamoshed backgrounds: bands of pixel confetti, torn blocks, smears, chevron tears and dead scanlines.
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Smear
A glitched pixel grid: a noise field dragged into vertical streaks, rows slipped sideways, cells in dark gutters.
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Satellite
Corrupted satellite fields: marbled false-colour ground under clashing pixel mosaics, bars and sliced bands.
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Snow
Pointed leaves full of TV static over a stepped marble ground, with checker lenses, combs and asterisks.
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Phosphor
A generated picture rebuilt from red, green and blue phosphors, with scanlines, a curved tube and a rolling bar.
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Barcode
Data graphics: bands and grids of stripe codes, square block codes and small monospaced numbers.
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Terminal
A scrolling log screen: columns of made-up system lines, highlighted bars, a status bar and a blinking cursor.
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Transmit
Streams of blue data bars sliding across a dark field, with ticks, scan lines, a corner slash and a dot field.
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Nexus
A glowing cyber data space: a plexus network, clusters of neon pixels round blooming hotspots, scan streaks.
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Dither
Photos reduced to a few inks by error diffusion or ordered dithering, as pixels or dots.
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Halftone
Photos as printed halftone screens: newsprint dots, two-ink duotone or four-colour rosettes.
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Duotone
Photos gradient-mapped onto two to five colours, smooth or posterised, with film grain.
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Glyph
Photos set in monospace type: ASCII ramps, shade blocks, dots, or a word of your own.
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Mosaic
Photos laid in tiles: square, hex, pebble or hand-laid shards, in photo colours or your palette.
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Engrave
Photos as a line engraving: parallel ribbons that swell with shadow and ripple together, like a banknote.
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Needle
Photos worked as cross-stitch: thread colours matched cell by cell on fabric, as crosses, half stitches or knots.
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Contour
Photos as a contour map of their brightness, with smooth iso-lines and optional filled elevation bands.
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Pixelsort
Glitch pixel sorting: mid-tone spans of a photo sorted into streaks by brightness, hue or saturation.
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Slice
Photos cut into glitched strips that slide, split their colour channels and pick up tints.
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Sketch
Photos redrawn as a pen sketch: short strokes that follow the edges, with hatching in the shadows.
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Waveform
Photos as stacked horizontal signals that rise with the shadows, each line hiding the ones behind it.
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Screenprint
Photos pulled as three to six flat, slightly misregistered ink layers, palest first and darkest on top.
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Pointillist
Photos painted in dots: broad dabs where the picture is calm, fine speckle where it is busy.
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Lowpoly
Photos faceted into flat-coloured triangles, small where the picture is busy and broad where it is calm.
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Scramble
Photos cut into square tiles that are turned, mirrored or swapped like a half-solved puzzle.
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Mirror
Photos cut into a wedge and folded into kaleidoscopes, mirrored halves or mirrored tile wallpapers.
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Stamp
Photos pressed as one-ink rubber stamps with rough, grungy edges, paper flecks and an optional frame.
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Duoprint
Photos split into two overprinting riso inks, each on its own halftone screen, slightly out of register.
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Pixel
Photos as chunky pixel art: a small palette picked from the picture or your inks, with dithering and outlines.
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Vinyl
Photos drawn as a single spiral groove whose width follows the picture, like a record.
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Infrared
Photos as false-colour heat images: warm skin glows on a heat ramp, with bands, scanlines and a scale.