Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape
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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!
HN · launched Jun 10, 2026 · 41 upvotes (top 17%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a creative procedural generation web app using Canvas/WebGL, seeded PRNG from string ASCII codes, and classic procedural landscape algorithms.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: APack (for seal/logo generation)
Concerns raised: Palindromes and anadromes not showing visual symmetry in trees, Limited wood type variety
Feature requests: Export tree as SVG or PNG, Zoom in further for closeups, More wood type options
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 54 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 55 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 205 days after the earliest competitor.
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