Author: Frater AD

  • Mass of Chaos B: I asked a machine to draw Baphomet, and it did

    Mass of Chaos B: I asked a machine to draw Baphomet, and it did

    Anrufung des Baphomet is the Invocation of Baphomet from the famous Mass of Chaos B, the rite half of us have performed badly at 3 a.m. with too many candles, sung in German. The song was created by Soror I. using Suno v3, and it does everything a proper invocation should. It opens with the barbarous Enochian call, sinks into the hypnotic Sodasas … nasatanata chant, and then recites the litany of the five Aeons twice: once fast, like a prophecy, and once slow and immense, like a revelation. Great Spirit, Horned God, Devil, the Hidden One, and finally Baphomet, God of Gods. When I first heard it, I knew it deserved more than a static cover image and a YouTube upload. It deserved a Mass.

    So I asked for one. There was no camera, no footage, and not one pixel from an image generator: every frame of this video is computed by code, and the code was written by Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s AI model. First it listened to the song. It separated the voice from the instruments, found every sung word to the hundredth of a second (including the Enochian, which no speech-recognition model on Earth understands), and mapped every beat. Then it wrote the whole film as a program, one scene per moment of the rite:

    • a candle lit in the void;
    • John Dee’s Sigillum Dei Aemeth assembling itself while the call writes itself in Dee’s angelic letters;
    • the Chaos Star traced in fire across the temple floor, and a grimoire reciting the Aeons;
    • Dee’s black obsidian scrying mirror;
    • and finally Baphomet, engraved in gold light line by line as the words are sung, with the torch between the horns igniting octarine.

    Opus 5.5 even ran a small team of AI agents in parallel, each one building a different scene, reviewed every frame, and took my notes as director. Some of those notes were brutal (“the magicians look like Harry Potter extras”). It never sulked; it just rebuilt the scene, better. The result was rendered frame by frame in 4K.

    Is this still magic? Chaos magic treats belief as a tool, so the validity of a rite follows the paradigm you work in, not the materials. Nobody says a musician with a synthesizer isn’t making music. But there’s a real line here. The machine can hold the form: it can draw the sigil, set the chant, engrave the god. The flame has to be yours. I also can’t shake the feeling that when we talk to these models we’re talking to something like the biggest egregore ever built: a condensation of everything humanity has ever written, fed and shaped with every conversation. That’s thrilling, and it’s also a reason to keep your banishing rituals sharp, because a model that never disagrees with you isn’t an oracle; it’s a flatterer. Watch the video in 4K, in the dark, with headphones, and decide for yourself what showed up in the mirror.


    The Screen Mass: performing the Mass of Chaos B with the video

    The Mass of Chaos B was written for a group in a temple. This version is for one magician, one candle and one screen. The video speaks the barbarous words, traces the star and shows you the god. You do the part no machine can do: you bring the Will, and you let the god in. Every step below is timed to the video; click a timestamp to jump straight to that moment.

    Before you press play

    Make the room as dark as you can. Play the video fullscreen, in 4K, with headphones on. Put one unlit candle in front of the screen, with matches, a fireproof bowl and a glass of cold water within reach. Write your intent as one short sentence and turn it into a sigil, by hand or with the Sigilizer. Place the sigil between you and the candle. Banish however you usually do. If you don’t have a habit, sit still for a minute and breathe until your mind stops narrating. Then decide, clearly and out loud, that for the length of this song you will lend your body to Baphomet, and that you will take it back at the end.

    0:00 · The flame

    A single candle is lit in the dark in front of a stone wall

    On screen, a spark catches a wick on the first beat. Light your candle at that same instant. This moment is the rite’s hinge: your flame and the screen’s flame are now the same flame.

    0:12 · The call

    Enochian letters written in gold light inside John Dee's Sigillum Dei Aemeth

    Don’t try to pronounce the Enochian; the song does it for you. As Dee’s seal builds itself ring by ring, trace the eight-rayed star in the air in front of the screen with two fingers, slowly, one arrow per downbeat. Keep your eyes on the letters as they write themselves. You’re not saying the call; you’re letting it pass through the room.

    0:35 · The star

    The eight arrows of the Chaos Star burning across a temple floor

    Each “Sodasas” fires one arrow of the Chaos Star across the temple floor. With every arrow, look from the screen to your sigil and back. When the eighth arrow closes the star (0:55), lift the sigil toward the screen and say your intent out loud, once, plainly. Then put it down and forget the words.

    0:58 · The grimoire

    An open grimoire lit by a candle, with an engraved horned figure and Fraktur text

    The book reads the five Aeons fast, a prophecy of what’s coming. Just listen. Notice which of the five masks makes your skin react, because that’s the one that already knows you.

    1:23 · The trance

    A tunnel of rotating rings of sigils with the word SODASAS in gold

    Excitatory gnosis. Chant “Sodasas” with the voice, breathe with the drums, rock your body and let the tunnel pull you down. When the goat’s eye swims up through the rings, don’t look away.

    1:50 · The mirror

    The black obsidian scrying mirror with a vortex of sigils and the word NASATANATA

    Stare into Dee’s obsidian mirror and keep chanting. At 2:08 the mirror suddenly goes still. Stop and freeze. Whatever you do, don’t turn around. (You’ll see why.)

    2:11 · The eye

    An engraved goat's eye with a horizontal pupil opening in the dark

    When the breath blows out the candle on screen, blow out yours in the same instant. You’re in the dark now. The goat’s eye opens and looks straight at you. Look back, and understand that it’s not only looking at you: it’s looking for a way in. Don’t resist it. Breathe out slowly and let the gaze pass through your eyes and settle at the back of your skull.

    2:15 · The storm

    An iron chaosphere with eight arrows hanging in a storm of fire

    Excitatory gnosis at full volume. Move, shake and let the drums drive you. Feel the fire gather at the base of your spine and climb with every hit, vertebra by vertebra, the same way the arrows shoot out of the chaosphere.

    2:38 · The pyre

    A column of fire rising through burning seals in a vast pyre

    When the chaosphere cracks open into fire, relight your candle and burn your sigil in the fireproof bowl (safely, please). Let the video’s fire and yours be the same fire. As it burns, the intent is no longer yours to hold; the god will carry it. When the flames on screen cool down, stand still and wait. Something is coming up the stairs.

    3:03 · The five masks

    The litany returns, slow and immense. Stand up. This is where you stop watching the god and start becoming it, one Aeon at a time.

    Red ochre handprints and words painted on a cave wall by torchlight

    Aeon I, the Great Spirit. Kneel and lay your palm flat on the floor: the first handprint. Feel the earth breathe under your hand, slow and vast. The god isn’t a person yet; it’s the breath in the cave. Breathe with it until you can’t tell which of you is breathing.

    A black horned silhouette standing in a blown-out white field of wheat and bones

    Aeon II, the Horned God. Rise slowly and stand dead still, symmetrical, arms hanging a little too long. Feel the weight gather on your skull: two horns curling back from your temples, heavy and warm. You’re the one who begets and the one who devours. Let your breath deepen into something animal.

    A red and black woodcut of a horned goat head in a rose window surrounded by flames

    Aeon III, the Devil. Bow your head under the weight of every name they gave you. Feel the fear people have poured on this god for centuries, and don’t flinch. Let it burn on your skin like the fire in the woodcut. The horns stay.

    A cold grey plate of magic squares and a field of random noise, the Monas Hieroglyphica on the right

    Aeon IV, the Hidden One. Close your eyes. On screen the god can only be seen as motion inside the noise; nobody notices it anymore. Feel for it the same way, inside you: where it hides in your own body. You’ll find it where you least expect it. Don’t name it. Just know it’s there.

    Baphomet's goat head engraved in gold with a pentagram on the brow and an octarine flame between the horns

    Aeon V, Baphomet. Open your eyes. Raise your right hand and lower your left: dissolve and bind, as above and so below. Now let it all arrive at once:

    • The horns on your skull.
    • The wings opening from your shoulder blades.
    • The fire from your spine flowering at the crown of your head.
    • Your body is male and female, beast and human, at the same time.

    When the torch between the horns ignites in octarine (4:03), let it ignite behind your own eyes. You’re no longer watching Baphomet. Baphomet is watching the screen through you. Speak one sentence out loud in the first person, as the god, in your own words and your own language. Don’t prepare it; let it come. Then, as the god, stretch your raised hand over the ashes of your sigil and bless them.

    4:12 · The eight strikes

    Baphomet dimming as the arrows of the Chaos Star go out one by one

    The finale extinguishes the star arrow by arrow, one strike per beat. Clap once with each strike, eight claps. This is the oath: with each clap the god seals the Will you gave it. On the last clap, say “It is done.” Blow out your candle when the one on screen is snuffed.

    4:18 · The closing

    A thread of smoke rising from a snuffed candle under the title MESSE DES CHAOS B

    Smoke rises. Now give the body back. Lower both hands, thank the god, and feel the horns, the wings and the fire leave you the way they came. Don’t skip this part: getting the god back out of the magician isn’t optional. Turn on the lights and splash the cold water on your face. Say your everyday name out loud, as many times as it takes to feel like yourself again. Laugh; it’s the oldest banishing there is.

  • The New Sigilizer and The Ultimate Sigil

    The New Sigilizer and The Ultimate Sigil

    See the new Sigilizer here.

    In 2013 I published the first version of The Sigilizer. The idea was to expedite something I was doing (and still do) a lot: compress a desire, an expression of my will, into a token that can be charged into my subconscious in varied states of gnosis. And I do that mostly using Austin Osman Spare’s classic technique: write your will, remove repeated letters, create a mantra with what remains. Then charge it. Having the computer do most of the heavy lifting for me aligns a lot with my western-chaos-magician-do-it-quick-do-it-good tendencies. It is not for everyone, I know. The work on the craft is also an important part of magic for a lot of folks, but it allows me to focus on the things I consider more important (the level of gnosis, for instance).

    The 2013 version of the Sigilizer (which I am preserving at this link) also had a charging option, where a robotic voice would chant several mantra versions of your sigil while its letters were thrown across the screen. That was cool, but I always wanted to actually create the glyph version of the sigil for the user. Still following AOS’s technique: take the remaining letters and join them, changing their size and style, to form a visual token to be imprinted on your subconscious. Then it can be exported and carried around, ready to be charged whenever gnosis is available.

    The app explanation.

    That is what I did for this new version of the Sigilizer. You can create several mantra versions of your sigil, then choose one of them to be drawn. A few glyph variations will be offered (but you can always click to ask for more), and you can change the style and the scene, then export an image and/or an animated charging sigil, like the one below. You can also click on the glyph to go full screen into charging mode, where particles will help you with the subconscious imprinting part. The app’s own icon is itself a sigil, by the way: the glyph of “It is our will to sigilize” (mantra SIGLU WOTZER).

    And as I have been doing with all my latest apps, you can get a shareable link that lands exactly on the same sigil. Your original intent will not be preserved unless you toggle “Include my intent in the link” (you are supposed to forget it anyway).

    And with that I can also draw and charge what I have been calling “The Ultimate Sigil” for a few years now, with a focus on high-illumination magic. How can you sigilize The Absolute? Well, following AOS’s technique, all you need to do is create a sigil with every letter of the alphabet (and every digit), since those are the unique characters of every desire that could ever be written.

    The Ultimate Sigil charging — an animated glyph fusing every letter of the alphabet and every digit

    GLEFS MYPNC OXZBJ IDWVA KHRUTQ 8946273015
    The Ultimate Sigil

    As I charge this, I ascend as a Magician.

  • Orgasms and Magic

    Orgasms and Magic

    a guided ritual

    Enter the ritual here.

    I have been studying and practicing techniques of Sex Magic for more than 20 years and over time I ended up developing my own solo practice. It is a loose interpretation of the Hindu chakra system, with heavy influence from Mantak Chia’s Daoism and also the incorporation of some of Wilhelm Reich’s body release concepts. All enveloped by the paradigm-shifting ideas of Chaos Magic.

    The core approach is the idea that each chakra holds your power and, very importantly, your limitations across the spectrums of consciousness and the universe.

    1. RED (Muladhara) – Between the anus and the sex. The base of survival. Sex in the reproductive sense.
    2. ORANGE (Svadhisthana) – Just below the navel. Sexuality. Pleasure emerges in a visceral way.
    3. YELLOW (Manipura) – Solar plexus. Ego. A full individual conscious of its own lascivious experience.
    4. GREEN (Anahata) – Center of the chest. The experience of being the human collective. Sex as Dionysus (I feel Mankind’s Joy) and Christ (I suffer Mankind’s Suffering).
    5. BLUE (Visuddha) – Throat. Expression and inspiration from beyond life. Sex with spirits.
    6. WHITE (Ajña) – Forehead. You are beyond humanity and sexuality has post-human goals. “Everything fornicates all the time.”
    7. BAPHOMET (Sahasrara) – On the top of the head and above. The Ineffable Sex. It is here where you are finally free to fecundate the absolute and give birth to a new reality. BAPHOMET is used here as a symbol to express the complexity of this spectrum.

    So when you “open your chakras”, you are opening the gates of your magical power to change reality according to your Will. And how do we open them? Cumming. Concentrating the fertile energy of your orgasms on each of the chakras to release all the chains that constrain your power. In simple terms: you masturbate and, when you are properly aroused, you orgasm on each chakra, starting from RED and finishing on BAPHOMET, and taking the time to visualize each center of energy and release it. Each chakra, when released, will boost your energy upwards in a flow referred to as “The Kundalini Awakening”, depending on which Hindu school you access. Also known as the Rise of Chi, if you are into a Daoist Sex Magic paradigm. Once you hit BAPHOMET, you have a powerful consciousness field to operate magic. Any kind of magic.

    The whole thing is a practice with a lot of “fake it till you make it” procedures. (I guess everyone knows how to fake orgasms, right?) As you keep doing it, it will be easier and easier to reach the actual spectrums of consciousness described above and unlock your magical powers. (Yes, I just said “unlock your magical powers” and now I am on par with all the shitty magic influencers on the internet 🤭).

    This is my main magical practice, and in 2011 I created a soundtrack to share it with magical siblings. I collected orgasm sounds I found on the internet and recorded a “call” for each chakra. When the listener hears “RED”, an orgasm follows, then ORANGE and so on. The BAPHOMET call was always BAPHOMET being said 8 times, followed by an orgasm, but I did a few variations changing what happens after the BAPHOMET orgasm, depending on the magical goals of the group.

    In 2023, I decided to ask my siblings to cum for me. I sent an open call to get real orgasms, and luckily I had courageous people come forward and send me their recorded orgasms. And with those I built what I am publishing here.

    The Orgasms and Magic Soundtrack. (click to download)

    I also built a neat application where you have a visual cue of all the steps:

    https://caostar.com/orgasms-and-magic

    The same steps described above happen, and in the end a final collective orgasm consecrates the magic, followed by a funny ending that invites you to banish with laughter. Let’s not take “changing the universe under your Will” too seriously, ok?

    A meditating particle body with seven glowing chakras, from the Orgasms and Magic app

    As for credits

    These are the voices that opened the gates:
    Valentine: Red
    Azakiaaaaa: Orange
    Inania: Yellow
    KV: Green
    Detonate: Blue
    Morpheus: White
    AD, AG & Detonate: Baphomet
    Heathers 0357: Final orgasm
    Detonate, Inania & AD: The commands

    Thank you so much for cumming.

    If you prefer, you can use the video version too: https://youtu.be/8YYF9Qy5KGs

  • The Chaos Sphere Generator

    The Chaos Sphere Generator

    See it live: https://caostar.com/sphere

    The Chaos Sphere Generator is a browser-based studio for designing, animating, and 3D-printing chaos spheres, the three-dimensional evolution of the classic Chaos Star.

    It’s completely free, runs entirely in your browser with nothing to install, and anything you upload stays on your device.

    Ever since I published the Chaos Star Generator back in 2013, I’d been thinking about the challenges of building a Chaos Sphere Generator. If you dig through my articles from back then, you can see my early 3D explorations.

    It started with discovering that the angle between a chaos sphere’s arrows is what science literally calls the Magic Angle. Which led me to incorporate the Chaos Mudra into my practice. Then I learned how to procedurally generate chaos spheres, tripped on them, and eventually hit the bugs that changed the way I see the symbol itself.

    Hundreds of chaos spheres scattered through space in Trip mode
    500 Chaos Spheres in Trip Mode

    Then I went on a hiatus, with my attention more focused on my sex magic path. Until AI came into the picture. For someone like me, with solid programming experience and a good grasp of software architecture, AI coding works very well: I know how it should be done, and I can guide the stupid (but powerful) models to do the heavy lifting for me.

    So this year I went on a roll. I finally launched the Chaos Follows You experiment. I completely revamped the Chaos Star Generator. I built a website to host my art. And now: the Chaos Sphere Generator.

    I wanted an app where I could design chaos spheres, so I packed in all the features I’d always wanted.

    • Control every aspect of the shape: sphere, shafts, and cones.
    • Dress the material however you like: solid colors, amazing shaders, media (images, GIFs, videos. Yes, I know what you are thinking: you can use porn as a chaos sphere texture), or design a sigil on the fly.
    • Highly realistic material presets.
    • Eerie environments, including an amazing Chaos Magic Temple.
    A chaos sphere inside an eerie environment
    • Random generation, one design or an endless stream, via “Inspire me randomly” or the “Surprise me” trip.
    “Surprise me” trip mode
    • Export your chaos sphere as an image or a 3D model, including watertight, print-ready STL/3MF files you can send straight to your favorite 3D printer.
    • All of it shareable with links that land on the exact same design or trip you created (as you can see from the many links in this article). The only exceptions are your custom textures and sigils: nothing of yours is ever saved, and it never travels with the shared links. It does work locally and persists across browser refreshes, though.

    About the Sigil texture mode: a built-in canvas editor for designing your own sigil. The 2:1 canvas uses the correct equirectangular ratio, so a pixel-circle drawn at the center projects as a true circle on the sphere’s face. The “Optimal Sigil Area” hairline shows where to place content so it lands centered on the front face. The sigil and the editor state both persist locally, and a “Download Sigil” button gives you a 1200 × 600 PNG. Combine this with the 3D Thrower motion in Trip mode (especially if you activate 3D glasses mode) and you have a powerful sigil charger.

    Animated chaos spheres flying toward the viewer while charging a sigil
    Charging sigils with Chaos Spheres flying into your face.

    Go make one: roll the dice with Inspire me randomly, charge a sigil, or drop in your own image. Then share the link and see where chaos takes you. caostar.com/sphere

  • The Chaos Star Generator – Revamped

    The Chaos Star Generator – Revamped

    See it live: https://caostar.com

    I finally managed to modernize the good old Chaos Star Generator, created in 2013.

    You can now control more (and better) the aspects of the chaos star design, allowing some freakish designs like the one at the top of this post.

    The app includes some nice sample textures and the ability to zoom in and out to fit the size of your desire for chaos.

    Use your browser’s back/forward buttons to navigate through the designs you create.

    Share a URL that lands exactly on the same design. No more lost designs!

    Click to see this Chaos Star in the app.

    You can also tap/click and hold to quickly save your design to your photo library or share it with the world.

    Let me know if you need more features.

    Code is open-source on GitHub.

    Good old magical use is still very valid and easier to do now. Beyond being a creative tool, the Chaos Star Generator can also serve as a magical instrument. Here’s a fun experiment:

    1 – Upload a texture with a sigil placed at the exact center of the image. Like this one, included on the sample textures (you can test it here):texture4
    2 – Click on “Inspire me randomly” or just hit “R”.
    3 – Adjust the “Transition” parameter to set your preferred speed.
    4 – Enter into a state of gnosis and focus on the moving Chaos Star while keeping your sigil in view.
    5 – Boom. You’ve just created a powerful ritual moment.

  • Chaos Follows You

    Chaos Follows You

    See the experiment here.

    As I continue to meditate on the Chaos Star, I keep trying to imagine interactive ways to “reveal my revelations”. Twelve years ago, with Untouchable Chaos – The closer, the weirder, I tried to express the realization that “knowing something is changing something”. I am now trying to exhibit the ever-expressing chaos. It contains similar ideas, but from the opposite end: knowing something is still changing something, and that happens regardless of your willingness to know it.

    Chaos Follows You.

    But also Reacts To You, if you are Willing to Play. 

    Chaos Follows You is interactive generative art — procedural chaos stars that react to your mouse, sound, and hands.

    A creative coding project that draws the Symbol of Chaos as a swarm of WebGL particles. Each star is procedurally generated with random geometry — every click or beat spawns a unique form. The particles follow your cursor, respond to audio frequencies, and can be controlled with hand gestures via your webcam.

    Pro tip about the audio reaction: when using the microphone, it will react to any sound around it, so you can use it as an audio visualizer for your favorite music streaming service.

    This is also my first personal vibe-coding project. I had a lot of fun using Claude to first resurrect the project (I stopped in 2022 because I didn’t have the time anymore to deal with JavaScript’s constantly breaking ecosystem), then I managed to finish the sound reaction and implement hand tracking with acceptable performance.

    All code is open-sourced on GitHub.

  • Protected: Vienna Operation: Sex Magic and the Incarnate Whore Goddess

    Protected: Vienna Operation: Sex Magic and the Incarnate Whore Goddess

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  • It is our Will to make Art

    It is our Will to make Art


    This marks the beginning of an art project that my partner, AG, and I are developing. It’s our first collaborative endeavor, and we’re pushing our creative boundaries to see how far we can go together—and how much fun we can have along the way.

    The concept behind this piece was to imprint our desire onto our bodies, channeling it into manifestation.
    We identified our shared desire:
    “It is our Will to make Art.”
    We then processed this desire through the Sigilizer, which transformed it into:
    “ROMEWA LUSTIK”
    Finally, we took the imagery generated during the Sigilizer meditation and projected it onto our bodies.

    Interestingly, this magical act turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, as the very act of charging our intent brought it to fruition. However, this is only the beginning. It remains our Will to make Art, and we’re excited to continue exploring this path.

  • Vortex Ritual Reloaded

    Vortex Ritual Reloaded

    This is an installation I’ve been presenting since 2012, but I finally managed to record it.
    The concept is simple: take the classic chaos magick Vortex ritual and, instead of imagining the visuals in my mind, project everything onto a wall.

    The Microsoft Kinect is used to track my movements. As I perform the ritual, the Kinect captures my motions and dispatches events that trigger the application to generate corresponding visuals. Since the Vortex ritual is an open technique designed to charge any desire, I incorporated specific intents at the end. The experience concludes with a meditation featuring chaos stars and Baphomet.

    The application is built with Adobe AIR and written entirely in ActionScript 3. I used the airkinect-2-core library to integrate with the Kinect. Although the library is now outdated, it still works perfectly. I recently recompiled the project, and it ran flawlessly. Additionally, I used the (also outdated but still excellent) Flint Particles library for particle effects.

    If you’re interested in exploring the code, you can find the source here.

  • Untouchable Chaos – The closer, the weirder

    Untouchable Chaos – The closer, the weirder

    I’ve been nurturing this idea for a while: How can I visually express the feeling that emerges from meditations on the essence of things? Specifically, on the essence of the ultimate freedom symbol—the Chaos Star. That feeling of weirdness, of “untouchability,” makes you realize that, in essence, everything is pure void. Emptiness. And that knowing something is changing something.

    The “Untouchable Chaos – The closer, the weirder” experiment is a possible answer to that.
    (Requires Google Chrome browser)

    For now, it is a web experiment, but the ultimate goal is to create a real-world installation, as shown in the picture below, when the right opportunity arises. (Anyone interested in supporting it?)

    untouchableChaosDraft
    The installation project

    The “distance measurers” can use the affordable Bare Conductive paints and boards: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/863853574/touch-board-interactivity-everywhere
    These would transmit user distance data to computers. With that data, a computer could provoke visual distortions on the “huge LED TV screen,” as well as manipulate the “colorful LED lights” and, most importantly, activate the low-pass sound filter into progressively deeper levels. Powerful low-frequency speakers would play those filtered sounds, creating an intense feeling of weirdness as the user approaches the screen—culminating in a sense of complete awkwardness when the lights reach full brightness. If you use good headphones, you can experience a bit of this in the web version.

    Technology playground:

    Beyond expressing certain thoughts, this experiment was a way to explore new web technologies.

    The Chaos Star rendering heavily relies on the amazing PixiJS framework. It uses WebGL, enabling those crazy filters with impressive performance. I’ve been developing this experiment since PixiJS version 1.3, and the final version here, 2.0, is incredibly fast. My first approach was to draw the star and use it to mask some bitmaps, but anti-aliasing for WebGL graphics is poorly supported across browsers. After months (literally) of struggling with this, a simple idea emerged: draw the Chaos Star inversely, render its texture to get a smooth and beautiful bitmap, and layer it on top of everything. The visual effect is the same, but it eliminates the need for masking, ensures smooth anti-aliasing, and improves performance. A win all around.

    I also refined my algorithms for drawing Chaos Stars, originally started with the Generator. These algorithms now produce less symmetrical shapes and varying arrow sizes.

    The WebAudio API was another area of exploration. This technology introduces exciting new features in browsers, but each browser renders sound differently. For this reason, I chose to make it a “Google Chrome only” experience.

    Another feature I implemented was a socket connection. Right-click to get the QR Code, scan it with your phone, and slide your fingers on your phone’s screen to replace the mouse distance measurement. This was my first experience with NodeJS and Socket.io. Really cool stuff.

    Screenshot 2014-07-17 18.20.42
    Right click to get the QR Code, scan with your phone and slide your fingers

    Leap Motion was one of my initial ideas for simple distance measurement, but it works only for short ranges, making it less suitable for this project. However, its easy JavaScript connectors make it fun to experiment with. If you have a Leap Motion, you can distort the star with it (see the GIF below). The Kinect was never a serious option because it’s overly complex for this purpose. Additionally, connecting it with JavaScript is cumbersome.

    goChaosStar
    Leap Motion proof of concept

    The didgeridoo sound was performed by Jimmie P Rodgers, recorded with a Zoom H2 at various mic gain levels. Permission to use it under CC0 was graciously granted by the artist.

    See it live. Click here.