Marbla
A fun variable font with three axes: inktrap, balloon, and curve.
Link tags: experimental
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Social Attention: a modest prototype in shared presence (Interconnected)
I love, love, love this experiment from Matt—messin’ around in websites!
JavaScript Systems Music
A massively in-depth study of boundary-breaking music, recreated through the web audio API.
- Steve Reich - It’s Gonna Rain (1965)
- Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports, 2/1 (1978)
- Brian Eno - Discreet Music (1975)
You don’t have to be a musician or an expert in music theory to follow this guide. I’m neither of those things. I’m figuring things out as I go and it’s perfectly fine if you do too. I believe that this kind of stuff is well within reach for anyone who knows a bit of programming, and you can have a lot of fun with it even if you aren’t a musician.
One thing that definitely won’t hurt though is an interest in experimental music! This will get weird at times.
Doing Science On The Web – Infrequently Noted
Alex recounts the sordid history of vendor prefixes and looks to new ways of allowing browsers to ship experimental features without causing long-term harm.
Form Follows Function
A gorgeous collection of experiments that showcase just how much is possible in browsers today.