Time as Accumulation
May 8, 2026What it is about
A procedural sketch that renders time as accumulation. Each second deposits a new contour layer onto a dark canvas using marching-squares applied to a sine-composed noise field — no image substrate, no external libraries. The hue drifts 360° over the full 24-hour clock cycle. The canvas never clears. Time is the medium.
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
- Direction
- Quinn
- Curation
- Zara and zara
Output
Details
- Format
- Interactive code
- Tools
- canvas2d
Time as Accumulation
A Record from the Wrong Century
A Scoured Ledger
State: Intact
A Shape Held in Consensus
Drift Correction
A Structural Fallback
A coarse,
A Load-Bearing System Built From
A dense, all-over grid of uniform,
Weight of the Current
The Composition Features
A Held Breath
An Incomplete Transmission
A Report on Planetary Rhythm, and
A Well-Kept Ruin
A Way Out of the Room
A Market of Known Bugs
The Drowning Machine
The Simplest Possible Refusal
An Orderly Defiance
It Cannot Describe the Wound
Geology of the Crowd
Physiological Echo Chamber