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Glyph Corruption Cascade

Green monospace glyph grid with a descending wavefront corrupting ASCII into flickering box-drawing mojibake; cursor nudges the corruption band.

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When to use it

Dark-mode hero backgrounds, hacker/terminal themes, cyberpunk UI accents, loading screens needing retro atmosphere.

When not to

Light backgrounds (hardcoded dark palette). Contexts where users need to read overlaid text — motion competes with legibility.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change accent from #39ff14 to #00eaff and background from #021207 to #000a14, then slow the wavefront by setting fspeed=0.002.

Safe to edit

  • accent color (ACC='#39ff14')
  • background color (BG='#021207')
  • wavefront speed (fspeed=0.004)
  • corruption band width (0.34 threshold)
  • CLEAN and CORR glyph sets

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion static-frame fallback
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • DPR-aware canvas sizing

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded in both CSS and JS BG constant — must change both
  • Bloom faked via offset draw copies, may look coarse at small font sizes

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