ASCII Whale Background
Built for ASCII whale, the sample brand inside the template
ASCII whale: one humpback seen from the side, gliding through pale sunlit water, drawn as a grid of 12px character cells on one 2D canvas, as a full-screen animated background.
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How it moves
One humpback seen from the side in pale, sunlit water, drawn as a grid of 12px character cells on one 2D canvas. The view follows the whale so it stays big in the frame while plankton streams past. Its 30-segment body lags through turns under a slow fluke beat; the long white pectoral fins sweep; sun shafts sway down from the surface; a breath of bubbles leaves the blowhole every few seconds and trails behind. Body cells are tinted squares whose glyph (· : + x % #) follows how dark the body is, with = for the throat pleats, o for the head knobs, - for the mouth and @ for the eye; caustic light ripples across its back. The whale pitches toward the pointer and follows it with its eye; a click or tap releases a burst of bubbles.
What you get
- A tested build prompt · 7.5k wordsPaste it into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Lovable and it builds the background section by section.
- The working projectVite + React.
npm install && npm run devand it runs, no keys or accounts. - The assets and their promptsEvery image and loop, plus the exact prompts that made them, so you can make your own.
Inside the prompt
One humpback whale seen from the side, gliding slowly through pale, sunlit water, drawn as a grid of 12px character cells on one 2D canvas. The view follows the whale, so it stays large in the frame (three quarters of a wide screen) while plankton streams back past it. Its body is a chain of 30 segments whose angles lag behind the head, so a turn travels down to the tail, with a slow up-and-down fluke beat on top; the long white pectoral fins sweep; sun shafts sway down from the surface; bubbles leave the blowhole in breaths and trail behind. Cells inside the whale are small tinted squares whose glyph (· : + x % #) follows how dark the body is there, with mark glyphs for its features: = for the throat pleats, o for the knobs on its head, - for the mouth, @ for the eye. Slow ripples of light (caustics) cross its back. The whale pitches toward the pointer and follows it with its eye; a click or tap lets out a burst of bubbles. It fills one full screen behind a short sample headline and line, and the first frame is drawn before the page is shown.
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