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A free generative art piece — play it in your browser, no install. A Zen garden in your browser: rake the sand with your mouse or finger, place and move stones, and let the ripples form around them, then save the garden as an image.

by @evoluteur · evoluteur/zen-garden on GitHubLANG JavaScript★ 1HOSTED ON EVOLUTEUR.GITHUB.IOUPDATED 10 Oct 2026

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A Zen rock garden in your browser: rake the sand with your mouse or your finger, place and move stones, and let the ripples form around them. No sign-up and no libraries.

The sand is a height map: raking writes grooves into it, smoothing flattens it, and every grain is shaded from the slope of the sand, lit from the upper left, so the grooves look carved. The stones are drawn on a layer above, with their shadows on the sand.

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