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Obsessed with NASA's interactive Landsat website. I could click this button all day to see all the different ways the letterforms in my name occur naturally around the world ♥️🌎
Reminds me of the Amazonia branding that launched a few weeks ago!
Great share Taylor!
Thanks David!
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A procedural shaded-relief cartographer's table; export the map as PNG.
I built this project to test A procedural shaded-relief cartographer's table; export the map as PNG. The core engineering challenge was sustaining uncompromised 60 FPS rendering using Canvas2D while handling continuous user interaction without framework overhead.
WHAT I WAS TESTING:
I focused on two core engineering benchmarks:
Real-time topographic contour line extraction using Marching Squares
Mountain ridge carving and hydrographic river basin generation
THE TECHNICAL SIDE:
Combines domain-warped fractional brownian motion (fBm) with Marching Squares contour generation. Renders vintage parchment styled topographic maps with seeded coordinates.
Everything executes in the browser using Canvas2D, Procedural Cartography, Contour Line Marching Squares. No third-party frameworks, no heavy runtime bundles, and zero external tracking.
WHAT I LEARNED:
Contour line marching squares often generated disconnected micro-segments. Stitching adjacent line segments into continuous polyline paths allowed smooth canvas stroke rendering.
Finding the sweet spot between mathematical precision and frame budget took careful profiling, but the result runs at a steady 60 FPS even on modest hardware.
TRY IT YOURSELF:
The live build is deployed on Netlify. Open it in your browser, test the controls, and observe the render response times.
If you are building high-performance 3D, physics, or creative web systems and want to collaborate, reach out here on Contra.
The interface is dynamic and engaging, yet it never compromises on usability. Nice job.
Apparently, my Ambrosia post has been featured on Contra! Haven’t figured out where yet, but I’m taking the win 🙌
Thank you, Contra. A lovely little surprise today!
Beautiful!
I worked on Brief 05 of the @makeyourbrief challenge: a brand identity for Timberline, a luxury ranch and equestrian retreat. I hand-drew the horse symbol with a marker, paired it with a clean modern wordmark and an earthy palette, and extended it into merch and lodge photography using AI under my own art direction, with retouching by hand.
Would you stay here? Tell me which image sold you.
