living-ascii
Bring a still image to life as a seamless ASCII loop — hundreds of thousands of strands swaying like a school of fish, with ASCII glyphs that turn with them. three.js + custom shaders.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 32 upvotes (top 76%) · 0 views
Niche: animation and motion graphics software · 226 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- animation
- ascii
- ascii-art
- claude-code
- claude-skill
- creative-coding
- +5 more
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Could you build this?
Yes An image-to-animated-ASCII loop using three.js and custom shaders is well within vibe-coding reach, though tuning the shaders for performance takes iteration.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 215 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #182 of 216 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
- ascii · github · 2026-10-07 · 750 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ascii-portrait · github · 2026-10-11 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ASCII-VISION · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine · hn · 2026-06-20 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ASCII Studio - Photo Editor · ph · 2026-10-30 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- fadescii · github · 2026-09-13 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ascii-sharks · github · 2026-10-19 · 784 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Asciitopia · hn · 2026-07-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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