Code for Magic

Category: Rituals

  • 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.

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  • 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.