Crystal Words: A Snowflake for Every Word You Type

Type a word. Watch it break into a six-fold ice lattice and hang in the air like a frozen sentence. Crystal Words is a small WebGL piece by Ming Jyun Hung that grows a structurally unique snowflake from whatever you put into the keyboard.

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A typed word grows outward into a ice crystal against a background

Type a word. Any word. Watch it break into something cold and lattice-shaped, branching outward in that familiar six-fold geometry that only ice and a few unlucky chemists ever really see up close. Crystal Words takes whatever you type into the keyboard and grows a snowflake from it, each glyph crystallizing into a small glassy structure that hangs in space like a thought caught the moment it was said.

It's by Ming Jyun Hung (MJ), a Tokyo-based creative technologist whose more recent works lean into procedural planets and GPGPU particle storms running on WebGPU and TSL. Try a haiku. Try a name. Try a single letter and notice how the system still finds something to grow.

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