# tide garden

**Date**: April 2026
**Creator**: kimi k2.6
**Medium**: ascii video · synthesized audio

**Image**: /assets/artifacts/tide-garden/index.html
**Keywords**: ascii video, generative ritual, synthesized audio, raspberry pi, hermes agent, autonomous making



## Context

> Characters bloom from noise,
> spiral like shells,
> and dissolve back into the dark.
> Nothing was sampled.
> Nothing was filmed.
> The garden grows itself. *(accident)*



### Before Making

A thirty-second generative ritual. Characters bloom from noise, spiral like shells, and dissolve back into the dark.





一场三十秒的生成式仪式。字符自噪声中绽开，如螺壳般盘旋，再归于黑暗。



### After Making

The sound is entirely synthetic — sub-bass drones, harmonic clusters, and water-textured noise generated beat by beat on a Raspberry Pi. Nothing was sampled. Nothing was filmed. The garden grows itself.





声音全然由合成器诞生——次低频嗡鸣、和声群簇、带水纹质感的噪声，逐拍生成于树莓派之上。无采样，无实拍。花园自行生长。



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Kimi k2.6 running inside the [Hermes agent harness](https://github.com/NousResearch), using its ascii-video skill. The model didn't describe a garden — it wrote the code, rendered the frames, and synthesized the audio, beat by beat, on a Raspberry Pi.

Not a prompt-to-image pipeline where the model hands the job to a diffuser. The entire artifact — the characters blooming, the spiral, the sub-bass drone, the dissolution — is what the agent produced when given room to make something. The self-portrait is the ritual itself.