Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

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Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

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bairui.dev

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June 10, 2026

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Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

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Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

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Hi HN! I made this after collecting hundreds of "name → tree" submissions at ITP.Live: https://landscape.bairui.dev/ Source: https://github.com/pearmini/infinite-landscape Plant a tree: https://tree.bairui.dev/Pan and zoom an infinite procedural landscape. Each name is converted to ASCII codes, which grow into a unique tree (breadth-first branching; repeated digits become mathematical roses). Mountains use midpoint displacement + Perlin noise, with SVG radial gradients in the blue/green/gold palette from Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains."Inspired by Lingdong Huang's {Shan, Shui}* (https://github.com/LingDong-/shan-shui-inf). Every tree is someone's name, signed with an APack stamp (https://apack.bairui.dev/).Try planting your name, then pan along the ridgeline to find it. "My trees" lets you jump back to ones you planted.Happy to answer questions about the terrain algo, name→tree encoding, or the Riso print we tiled at ITP Winter Show!

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