A real-time procedural cosmos running directly in your terminal.

rust_aurora renders a seeded, animated ASCII universe with drifting energy fields, orbiting gravity sources, and color gradients that shift like aurora light.

cargo run --release --bin rust_aurora -- --seed 42 --seconds 25 --fps 40 --orbiters 7 --mode hyperdrive --palette inferno

• --seed <u64>: deterministic universe layout
• --width <usize>: render width (default from $COLUMNS, clamped)
• --height <usize>: render height (default from $LINES, clamped)
• --fps <u32>: target frame rate
• --seconds <f32>: animation duration
• --orbiters <usize>: number of moving gravity wells
• --mode <name>: aurora, nebula, or hyperdrive
• --palette <name>: aurora, inferno, or glacier

# cinematic slow drift
cargo run --release --bin rust_aurora -- --seed 1337 --fps 24 --seconds 30 --orbiters 5 --mode nebula --palette glacier

# intense turbulence
cargo run --release --bin rust_aurora -- --seed 99 --fps 60 --seconds 20 --orbiters 12 --mode hyperdrive --palette inferno

# original signature look
cargo run --release --bin rust_aurora -- --seed 7 --fps 35 --seconds 20 --orbiters 6 --mode aurora --palette aurora

Press Ctrl+C to stop early.

A second app in this repo: a CPU path tracer that renders cinematic still images to PPM.

# fast preview
cargo run --release --bin lumenforge -- --scene orbit --quality draft --width 960 --height 540 --threads 8 --output orbit.ppm

# high-quality final frame
cargo run --release --bin lumenforge -- --scene monolith --quality insane --width 1920 --height 1080 --threads 16 --output monolith.ppm

• --scene <name>: gallery, orbit, monolith
• --quality <name>: draft, film, insane
• --samples <usize>: override samples-per-pixel for custom quality
• --bounces <usize>: override max path bounces
• --threads <usize>: CPU worker count (default = available cores)
• --seed <u64>: deterministic render seed
• --width <usize> / --height <usize>: output resolution
• --output <file>: output path (.ppm)

magick monolith.ppm monolith.png

A third app in this repo: a procedural song composer + synthesizer that renders full stereo tracks to WAV.

# neon retro groove
cargo run --release --bin sonicloom -- --style neon --seconds 60 --bpm 116 --swing 0.09 --seed 7 --output neon.wav

# atmospheric generative score
cargo run --release --bin sonicloom -- --style ambient --seconds 90 --bpm 78 --swing 0.04 --seed 1337 --output ambient.wav

# high-energy broken-beat sequence
cargo run --release --bin sonicloom -- --style fractal --seconds 75 --bpm 132 --swing 0.14 --seed 42 --output fractal.wav --arrangement-out fractal.json

• --style <name>: neon, ambient, fractal
• --seconds <f32>: track length
• --bpm <f32>: tempo
• --swing <f32>: rhythmic swing amount (0.0 to 0.45)
• --sample-rate <u32>: output sample rate
• --seed <u64>: deterministic generation seed
• --output <file>: output .wav file path
• --arrangement-out <file>: export composition metadata as JSON

ffmpeg -i fractal.wav -codec:a libmp3lame -q:a 2 fractal.mp3

A fourth app in this repo: an ultra-fast, modern Rust TUI operations dashboard with animated truecolor visuals.

cargo run --release --bin prismdash

• q / Esc: quit
• p or Space: pause/resume simulation
• m: cycle scenario (Observe, Burst, Incident Replay)
• t: cycle visual theme
• + / -: adjust target frame rate
• [ / ]: adjust simulation speed
• r: reseed simulation universe

• Information hierarchy is triage-first: summary KPIs first, trend context second, root-cause panels third.
• Uses dense Unicode + 24-bit color for “GPU terminal” rendering (Braille charts + heatmap cells).
• Rust enables high refresh with predictable latency via a tight event/render loop and low-overhead state updates.

All prompts from this build session are listed in prompts.md.