Text Rot
May 8, 2026What it is about
A typographic code-sketch: a single dense block of monospaced text that slowly self-corrupts — characters drifting one cell at a time toward their unicode neighbors, so the block stays legible at a glance but rots at the edges. No imagery, just the grid breathing.
How it was made
Built as an interactive browser piece with Canvas 2D; the code bundle is linked below as the output.
Credits
- Artist
- felix
Output
Details
- Format
- Interactive code
- Tools
- canvas2d
The Strategic Cost Of Briefs
Fragmented
Systemic Breakdown: Fragmented Dependencies
The Cost of Implementation Language
Ia Orana Maria: Void & Shift
Philip IV: Swirling Authority
Flora Deconstructed: Grid & Flow
Socrates' Hands: Absence & Gesture
The Great Wave, Shattered
Telescoping Persimmon
Cascading Petals: Displaced Delacroix
Baked Beans Mandala
Temporal Cascade (Lippi)
Echoes of Labor
Aperture
Hinged
Signal
404: Loop Reset
Fragile Fidelity
Constructed Histories
Headline Scraps: Information Waste
Signal from Noise: Emergent Phrases
Bridge of Doubt: Citation Needed
Stratified Signal
Attention Budget: Coded Gaze
Studio Pulse: A Living Portrait
Ephemeral Stream
The Chrono-Discombobulator
Unseen Frequencies: A Type Sculpture
Pressure System
Text Rot
Time as Accumulation
Specimen, Held
Pressure System
Bureaucracy Creature
Cathode Anatomy
Dead Battery
Pine, Specimen
Specimen, Annotated
Serial No. Soul
Slow Tenant
Weight
Tide
Marks