burning rings · glassy globes · plasma cores · 3D wireframe sculptures · live WebGL console · 39 parameters · seeded archetypes · editable layers · 12 built-in presets · WebP · GIF · PNG · JPG · JSON export
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ORBFORGE is a WebGL console that renders a living animated orb — a burning ring, a glassy globe, a plasma core, a 3D wireframe sculpture — and exports it as a transparent animated WebP or GIF, a single PNG or JPG frame, or a JSON recipe, seed and full config baked into every file. Dial the 39 parameters by hand, roll a seeded archetype, stack editable layers, or start from one of 12 built-in presets; loop durations solve to whole cycle counts, so every animated export repeats without a visible seam. It is a static page with no build step, no server, and no account.
Live WebGL preview: seven surface texture styles (smoke, ridged filaments, plasma cells, banded rings, woven threads, stipple dots, wire lattice) that wrap a true 3D sphere via longitude/latitude — spinning dot, wire, and ring matrices — plus torus and sphere lighting, a volumetric core with radial plasma filaments, orbiting tracers, adjustable playback speed, glow, chromatic aberration, and a video-player transport (play, pause, scrub, speed, fullscreen) over the render.- 39 parameters in seven groups, each with a slider, hold-to-repeat steppers, and a typeable value field. Hovering a parameter draws a pink marching-ants marquee around the exact region of the render it controls, tracked live by the shader.
- Seeded, archetype-weighted randomize: each roll picks a coherent archetype (burning ring, plasma ball, glassy sphere, wire mesh, lit sculpture, thick aura) with correlated parameter ranges, so distinct species emerge instead of uniform noise. Every roll stamps a human-readable seed (
plasma-4f2a) that deterministically rebuilds the same orb — and Roll rerolls whichever layer you're editing. - Editable layers: stack up to 3 presets additively above the base orb for composite looks; each layer is a tab you can select to edit its own parameters, hide, roll, or remove — and every visible layer rides along in the animation and the JSON.
- Transparent by default: true alpha out of the box, or bake in a solid or gradient backdrop with hex-precise colors.
- Five export formats: animated WebP (browser-native, transparent) and GIF (built-in median-cut, Floyd-Steinberg, LZW encoder) for loops; PNG and JPG for a single frame you pick with a scrubber and preview in-dialog; and JSON for the re-importable recipe. A target-file-size auto-tuner picks resolution, fps, and quality to fit a byte cap; the animated size estimate updates live.
- 12 built-in presets plus user presets saved to
localStorage, with undoable delete. - Event log: every action emits an ECS-shaped JSONL record you can copy or download as
.jsonl.
The v1.1.0 capability pack ships six new orbs that show off the engine's newer tricks — true 3D longitude/latitude spheres, spinning dot and wire matrices, and volumetric cores. Drop one straight into a chat avatar, an agent UI, or a README; paste its seed into the in-app Import box to keep editing it.
| Orb | Preview | Seed | Frames |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lattice bloom |  |
plasma-9f2a |
80 |
| Sea urchin |  |
glass-4c71 |
79 |
| Amethyst globe |  |
sculpt-a13f |
38 |
| Crimson matrix |  |
quasar-3e9b |
73 |
| Rose datasphere |  |
flux-d8a1 |
94 |
| Dusk halo |  |
nova-51cc |
126 |
The original 12 built-in presets ship pre-exported on v1.0.0.
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Clone and serve
git clone https://github.com/wranngle/ORBFORGE && cd ORBFORGE python3 -m http.server 8080
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Open
http://localhost:8080, pick a preset or hit ROLL, then click DOWNLOAD (animated WebP/GIF, a single PNG/JPG frame, or the JSON recipe).
Or skip the clone: the same page is live at orbforge.wranngle.com.
WebGL is required for the preview; WebP export uses browser-native WebP encoding (Chrome, Edge, or a recent Firefox), and Safari falls back to the built-in GIF encoder.
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌘/Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + Z, or ⌘/Ctrl + Y | Redo |
| Space | Play or pause |
| F | Fullscreen |
| Download → JSON | Copy or download the full config; re-import it to keep editing |
| Import box | Paste a config JSON or a bare seed (plasma-4f2a) — or drop a .json, .webp, or .gif — to rebuild the exact orb |
A finished orb is a small transparent looping image, so it goes anywhere one does.
| Agent avatars a face for your AI agent's idle and thinking states |
Chat UIs profile pictures that move in Slack, Discord, Teams |
Loading states a looping indicator in place of a spinner |
| Stream overlays OBS and Twitch talking or brb badges |
README headers the glowing-glyph treatment this page uses |
...anywhere an image goes the export is a plain file |
Named surfaces are usage examples, not integrations.
View the interactive star history, drawn live even while star-history's image API is down.
MIT © Wranngle Systems LLC. See LICENSE.