Category Archives: p5.js

Building a fake microscope: simulating a yeast wet mount

By | August 1, 2026

Repository: github.com/lynchaos/generative-microscopy Why this sketch I wanted to find out whether I could make something that genuinely looked like microscopy footage. Not cells bouncing around a canvas, but Saccharomyces cerevisiae behaving the way it actually behaves under a coverslip, seen through real glass and real light. The sketch began life as a generic n-body attraction… Read More: Building a fake microscope: simulating a yeast wet mount »

The Rippled Vortex Ring: Generative Art, and the Infinite Loop That Wasn’t

By | August 1, 2026

I spend most of my working life thinking about what happens inside a stirred tank. Impeller tip speed, shear on the cells, the shape of the vortex that forms when you get the baffling wrong. So when I fell down the rabbit hole of p5.js code golf last week, it was probably inevitable that the… Read More: The Rippled Vortex Ring: Generative Art, and the Infinite Loop… »