registry MOSH

ASCII Collapse · 047

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Code-native visual signature / Data Corruption

asciiCollapse

ASCII Collapse

Image dissolves into glyph quantization.

Category: Data Corruption
Parameters: 2
Registry no.: 047 / 143

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What it reads

Frame-local Reads only the current frame, which makes it the cheapest kind to stack and safe to render into a Conjure window at any size.

Parameters

param	key	range	default
Amount	`amount`	0..1 (rendered to 2)	0.7
Cell	`size`	4..40	12

The renderer widens amount past its declared maximum by 2× before it reaches the shader, because most shader bodies were tuned against a muted top end. The rendered figure is the bound that actually arrives.

Defaults as a layer

{ "effectId": "asciiCollapse", "params": { "amount": 0.7, "size": 12 } }

GLSL fragment shader

The effect's own code. The uniforms and helpers above it — uTex, uFeedback, the depth proxy, the frame ring, depthAt(), timeAt() — are the same header every Ether-MOSH shader opens with, and are documented once on the registry rather than reprinted on all 143 pages.

void main(){ vec2 px = 1.0/uResolution; vec2 cell = floor(vUv/(px*uSize))*(px*uSize) + px*uSize*0.5; vec4 c = texture2D(uTex, cell); float l = dot(c.rgb, vec3(0.299,0.587,0.114)); vec2 inner = fract(vUv/(px*uSize)); float glyph = step(0.5 - l*0.5, inner.x) * step(inner.x, 0.5 + l*0.5); glyph *= step(0.1, inner.y) * step(inner.y, 0.9); glyph += step(0.45, abs(inner.y - (1.0-l))) * 0.3; vec3 ascii = c.rgb * glyph; gl_FragColor = vec4(mix(c.rgb, ascii, uAmount), c.a); }

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