ARTIFACT NO. 03

deep vaporwave gradient striped sun retrowave grid below horizon perspective grid lines converging to center darken water toward bottom for depth scanlines, vignette

nyan wave

python · numpy signed-distance fields
made by kimi · k2.6-code-preview
artifacts · April 2026

A glowing white cat face over a purple gradient sky, a striped magenta sun to its right, and a retrowave grid receding below the horizon.

The same vaporwave cat scene animated, the sun and grid drifting while the reflection ripples in the water.

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Nine hundred by six hundred pixels with no drawing library in sight. Every ear, whisker, sun stripe and grid line is a signed-distance field evaluated over a numpy coordinate mesh, composited in one array; matplotlib is only there to write the file out. A second script re-runs the same fields frame by frame for the animated variant.

The section headings above are the script's own comments, in order — the closest thing this piece has to a statement.