100,000 Stars
A 3D tour of the nearby stars, with background music.
- 5 minutes
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Every odd website we list
200 hand-picked sites. Filter by category, time and phone-friendliness, or just scroll and let something catch your eye.
Sites
All the sites
Sites
16colors
An archive of ANSI and ASCII art from the BBS days.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
A Dark Room
A text-based game that begins with a fire in a dark room.
- Rabbit hole
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A Neural Network Playground
Train a neural network in your browser and watch it learn.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
A Soft Murmur
Mix rain, waves, wind and coffee-shop noise into your own soundscape.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Ableton Learning Music
Learn how music works by making it in your browser.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Ableton Learning Synths
A hands-on guide to synthesizers that actually sounds good.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Absurd Trolley Problems
The trolley problem, escalated until it stops making sense.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Adventures With Anxiety!
An interactive story about living with anxiety.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Always Judge a Book by its Cover
Satirical reviews of strange book titles and covers.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Antipodes Map
Dig a hole and see where you would come out the other side.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
ASCII Art Archive
Thousands of ASCII drawings, sorted by subject.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Asteroid Launcher
Design an asteroid and fire it at any spot on Earth.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Astronomy Picture of the Day
A new space photo every day, with an expert's explanation.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Bartosz Ciechanowski's Interactive Explainers
Long, gorgeous interactive essays on how things work.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
BeepBox
Sketch chiptune songs and share them as a link.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
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Bouncing DVD Logo
Watch the DVD logo bounce and wait for the perfect corner hit.
- 30 seconds
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Bruno Simon's Portfolio
A portfolio you explore by driving a toy car around a 3D world.
- 5 minutes
- Desktop
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Cameron's World
A web collage built from archived GeoCities pages, 1994-2009.
- 5 minutes
- Desktop
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Cat Bounce
Bounce cats around the screen. Gently, they cry.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
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Chrome Music Lab
Playful experiments that make music easy to explore.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Coffitivity
The sound of a cafe, for people who can't focus in silence.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Live feeder and nest cams from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive
CSS Zen Garden
One HTML page, hundreds of wildly different designs.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Damn Interesting
Long-form true stories that are obscure, odd and gripping.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Dark Patterns
A guided tour of the tricks websites use to manipulate you.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Tens of thousands of beautifully scanned old maps.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Days Since Incident
Live counters for days since the last earthquake, eruption and more.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive
Dinosaur Comics
A comic that reuses the same six panels and still updates.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Draw a Perfect Circle
Trace a circle and get scored on how perfect it is.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Draw Logos From Memory
Try to sketch famous logos, then reveal how wrong you were.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Dwitter
Tiny JavaScript animations made in 140 characters or less.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
earth
A gorgeous live globe of the world's winds, weather and ocean currents.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Earth Reviews
A review site for Earth itself, to help improve the simulation.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Esolang Wiki
A catalogue of deliberately bizarre programming languages.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Every Noise at Once
A scatter map of thousands of music genres, with samples.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
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Experiments with Google
A gallery of creative coding, AI and music experiments.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Explained Visually
Interactive explanations of ideas like Markov chains and eigenvectors.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Explorable Explanations
A hub for interactive essays that you learn by playing.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Explore.org Live Cams
Live nature cams, from Alaskan bears to underwater reefs.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Flashpoint Archive
A huge preservation project saving Flash games and animations.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
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Flexbox Froggy
Help frogs reach their lily pads using CSS.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
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Futility Closet
An idler's miscellany of odd facts, puzzles and curiosities.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Gapminder Tools
Animated bubble charts that bust myths about the world.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Geek Prank
Fake Windows updates and other full-screen pranks.
- 30 seconds
- Desktop
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Giant Panda Cam
Live panda cam from the Smithsonian's National Zoo.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Google Arts & Culture
Museums, art and cultural treasures you can zoom into.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Google Doodles
The archive of Google's changing logos, with interactive games.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Google Ngram Viewer
Chart how often any word appears in millions of books.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Grid Garden
Water your carrots with CSS grid code.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Hacker Typer
Mash the keyboard and look like you are hacking the Pentagon.
- 30 seconds
- Desktop
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Histography
An interactive timeline of all of history, powered by Wikipedia.
- Rabbit hole
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Homestar Runner
The cartoon website that defined early web animation.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
How To Remember Anything Forever-ish
A comic-style interactive guide to spaced repetition.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Hundred Rabbits
A tiny studio on a sailboat making open-source tools and games.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Infinite Craft
An endless crafting game that starts with Water, Fire, Wind and Earth.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive
Infinite Mac
Run classic Macintosh and NeXT systems right in your browser.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Information is Beautiful
David McCandless's gorgeous data visualisations.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Internet Artifacts
A museum of about 60 internet milestones, from 1977 to 2007.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Internet Live Stats
Real-time counts of emails sent, tweets posted and sites online.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Internet Roadtrip
A shared Street View road trip steered by everyone online at once.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive
Is it Christmas?
It tells you NO, almost every day of the year.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
JS Paint
MS Paint, faithfully rebuilt for the web.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Know Your Meme
The encyclopedia of internet memes and their origins.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Mature themes
- Unmoderated user content
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Koalas to the Max
Click through a pixelated mosaic until the picture appears.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Light Pollution Map
See how bright the night sky is where you live.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
LightningMaps.org
Watch lightning strike around the world in near real time.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Little Alchemy 2
Combine basic elements to discover hundreds of things.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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MapCrunch
Drop into a random Street View location anywhere on Earth.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Marginalia Search
An independent search engine that favours non-commercial sites.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cams
Watch jellies, sharks and sea otters on live cams.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Moral Machine
Judge self-driving car dilemmas and compare with the world.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
myNoise
Hundreds of detailed, customisable soundscapes for focus and sleep.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
NASA Live
Live NASA streams: launches, spacewalks and views from the ISS.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
NASA's Eyes
Fly through the solar system, Earth and spacecraft in 3D.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Neal.fun
Neal Agarwal's playground of games, visualizations and weird stuff.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive
Neocities Browse
Browse the hand-made personal sites of the modern indie web.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Noisli
Background noise generator for focus and relaxation.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
NTS Radio
Live radio from DJs and musicians across a huge range of genres.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
NUKEMAP
Drop a nuclear weapon on a map and see the effects.
- 5 minutes
- Mature themes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
oldweb.today
Browse archived pages inside emulated period browsers.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
OneZoom Tree of Life
Zoom through the entire tree of life, from bacteria to blue whales.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Online Sequencer
A free browser music sequencer with a huge community library.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
OpenRailwayMap
A world map of train tracks, signals and rail infrastructure.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
Michael Bach's classic collection of optical illusions.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Our World in Data
Charts on how the world is changing, with the data behind them.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Parable of the Polygons
A playable post on how small biases build segregated societies.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Passive Aggressive Passwords
A password machine that is brutally honest about your choices.
- 30 seconds
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Patatap
Every key on your keyboard triggers a sound and a burst of animation.
- 5 minutes
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
PhET Interactive Simulations
Free physics, chemistry and math simulations you can poke at.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Pixel Thoughts
Type a worry into a star and watch it dissolve in sixty seconds.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Pointer Pointer
Wiggle your cursor and a stranger in a photo points right at it.
- 30 seconds
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Powder Game
A classic particle sandbox: fire, water, gunpowder and more.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Priyom.org
A hub for tracking mysterious number stations on shortwave radio.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Ptable
The periodic table, made interactive and genuinely nice to use.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Quick, Draw!
Doodle quickly while an AI tries to guess what you're drawing.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
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Radio Garden
Spin a 3D globe and tune into live radio from any city.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Radiooooo
A musical time machine: pick a country and a decade, then listen.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Rainfor.me
Rain sounds with no ads, plus a suggestion for a slow song.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Rainy Mood
Rain sounds for sleeping, studying and pretending it's Tuesday in Seattle.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
random.dog
A random dog picture, every time. Hello World, this is dog.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
RANDOM.ORG
True random numbers from atmospheric noise.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Regex Crossword
Crosswords where the clues are regular expressions.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Roadside America
A guide to uniquely odd tourist attractions across America.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Sandboxels
A falling-sand sandbox with hundreds of elements to mix.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Sandwich Tribunal
A years-long, alphabetical blog judging the world's sandwiches.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
SCP Foundation
A collaborative horror-fiction wiki about secure, contain, protect.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Mature themes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Silk
Draw flowing, symmetrical ribbons of light with your mouse.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Solar Dynamics Observatory
Near-live images of the Sun in different wavelengths.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
SomaFM
Commercial-free, listener-supported internet radio with real character.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Space Elevator
Ride a virtual elevator through the atmosphere and into space.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Space Jam (1996 website)
The original 1996 Space Jam site, preserved exactly as it was.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Spend Bill Gates' Money
Blow $100 billion on everything from Big Macs to an NBA team.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Staggering Beauty
Shake your mouse vigorously. Flashing images and loud noises.
- 30 seconds
- Desktop
- Flashing images
- Loud audio
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Stellarium Web
A free planetarium that runs in your browser.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Teachable Machine
Train an AI to recognise your face, sounds or poses.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Telehack
A simulation of the old ARPANET you play from a terminal.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
TEXTFILES.COM
Jason Scott's archive of text files from the BBS era.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Deep Sea
Scroll down through the ocean and meet what lives at every depth.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Invented words for feelings you didn't know had names.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Evolution of Trust
A playable explainer on why we trust each other, with game theory.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Internet Arcade
Classic arcade machines, playable in the browser.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Library of Babel
A website that contains every possible page of text.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Long Doge Challenge
A clicker game about making an ASCII doge unreasonably long.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Million Dollar Homepage
A million pixels sold at a dollar each, preserved in all its glory.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Type some numbers and find the sequence they belong to.
- Rabbit hole
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The Public Domain Review
Strange and wonderful out-of-copyright art, books and ephemera.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Pudding
Visual essays that explain culture with data.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Scale of the Universe
Zoom from quarks to the edge of the observable universe.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Scale of the Universe 2
The original Flash-era zoom through everything, rebuilt for HTML5.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The True Size Of ...
Drag countries around the map to see their real size.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Wiki Game
Race from one Wikipedia page to another using only links.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds
A playable guide to how ideas and behaviour spread through crowds.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
This is Sand
Pour colored sand into a jar and carve patterns.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
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This Person Does Not Exist
Every refresh shows a human face that never existed.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
This Rental Does Not Exist
AI writes and illustrates a holiday rental that isn't real.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
This Word Does Not Exist
AI invents a word, a definition and an example sentence.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Mature themes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
three.js Examples
Hundreds of 3D demos showing what the browser can do.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
tixy.land
Make animated art with a single tiny JavaScript function.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
To Build a Better Ballot
An interactive guide to voting systems and why they matter.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Typatone
Every letter you type plays a note, so your writing becomes music.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Universal Paperclips
An idle game about making paperclips that goes somewhere dark.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Unusual Suspects
Sketch a suspect from vague, unreliable witness testimony.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
USGS Latest Earthquakes
A live map of every notable earthquake on Earth.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
VIM Adventures
Learn Vim keystrokes by playing an adventure game.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
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Wayback Machine
Type a URL and travel to how it looked years ago.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
WebGL Fluid Simulation
Swirl glowing fluid around with your cursor.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
WebSDR
Listen to shortwave radio through receivers all over the world.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
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Weird Universe
A tour of odd news, inventions and strange history.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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What If?
Absurd hypothetical questions, answered with real science.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Where the ISS at?
See exactly where the International Space Station is right now.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
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Which Face Is Real?
Pick the real person from a pair of faces, one of them AI-made.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
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Who Was Alive?
Type a year and see which historical figures overlapped.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Wiby
A search engine for the classic web, with a surprise button.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Wikipedia: Unusual Articles
Wikipedia's own list of its strangest entries.
- Rabbit hole
- Mature themes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Windows 93
A deranged fake operating system with surreal apps.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Flashing images
- Loud audio
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
WindowSwap
Look out of a stranger's window, anywhere in the world.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Windy
Animated wind, wave and storm maps with a huge layer menu.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
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Wonders of Street View
Funny buildings, strange costumes and other oddities caught by Google.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Worldometer
Real-time counters for population, births, deaths and more.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
WorldWide Telescope
Explore the universe through a virtual telescope in your browser.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
xkcd
Randall Munroe's webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Your World of Text
An infinite shared text canvas anyone can write on.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Unmoderated user content
- Alive · checked 15 days ago
Zoomquilt
An infinitely zooming painting that never stops falling in.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
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Zoomquilt 2
The sequel: another infinitely zooming image.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 15 days ago