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Vibe Cards · The Parametric Deck

A card in this deck is not a picture. It is a rule.

Each card below is a small program, steered by a few named numbers — a scale, an angle, sometimes a seed (the number its randomness grows from). Drag the sliders and the card redraws in front of you.

The numbers printed on the card ARE the card. Type them back in — any machine, any year — and you get the same picture, forever.

The entry fee Every card must be reproducible from the numbers printed on it.

These generators are coming to Card Studio and the collage tool as endless scrolls: pick your combo, and the numbers are the recipe. The deck sits beside the book, where each card is a thing you cut and fold.

The cards — live on this page

KAZE

This is shipped card 007's own rule — slide the numbers and you are holding a card that never got printed. Nothing is random: the whole card is four numbers. The preview shows fewer, thicker bands than the printed card, because band width is a pixel count and the preview grid is smaller — the original's behaviour, not a bug.

The drawWarpedStripes rule from card 007’s own package (examples/kaze-card in this project’s repo), as corrected on 2026-08-16 — the soft patch under the tap mark replacing what used to be a punched hole.

GESICA

The live GESICA page never holds still: zoom breathes, colours drift, the centre wanders on the clock. A seed alone cannot bring a picture back. Here every clock-driven input is a slider, so the address line under the picture is complete — feed it back in and the same picture returns.

Ported line for line from the GESICA engine that runs at persona500.com/gesica (its shader, its seed math, its own random-number generator — so a seed here is the same seed there). Frame drift is off; every clock input is a slider instead.

KELIBRO

A kaleidoscope pointed at the Mandelbrot set, a famous fractal (a shape that stays detailed at every zoom). The view is folded into mirror wedges before it is drawn. All 5 of its folds are here: 6-way, 8-way, 4-way, 3-way, and a twisted spiral. The seed sets color and tilt.

Ported line for line from the KELIBRO engine that runs at persona500.com/kelibro — its shader, its five folds, its eight anchor points. The seed maps differently here, so the same kind of pictures live under different numbers.

Rules that live at home

These cards keep the same promise, but their sliders sit on their own pages. The address works the same way: the same numbers give the same picture on any device.

Lives on its own page

BIFURCATA

The engine is too large to carry here, so the sliders are on its own page. Its address is the world number after the hash.

https://persona500.com/bifurcata#w=<seed>

Lives on its own page — an endless scroll

LEVIATHAN

The engine is too large and too much ours to carry here; it runs as an endless scroll on its own page. Put an address after the hash and the scroll grows that exact picture first, then keeps going. Someone wished for this link; it landed the same day (2026-08-23).

https://persona500.com/leviathan#fo|seed=N|h=N|n=N|crop=<name or 0-3>|vein=<name or 0-8>|cell=N

Lives on its own page · everything arrives at once

PANGEA

PANGEA is the child of two parent cards: BIFURCATA grows the trees, LEVIATHAN grinds the pigment. One world number is the whole picture, and it reads the same on any device.

pg|world=N

Live above · card page here

GESICA

The sliders are on this page, in the GESICA panel above. Its printed card has a page of its own.

gesica|seed=N|cell=N|t=N|rot=N|zoom=N|cx=N|cy=N

Coming, not here yet

Two more makers are queued for this deck. Both are image models — programs far too large to run inside a page like this one — so there is no demo below, and we will not fake one.

Image model · no demo

MAKO

MAKO draws anime-style pictures from a written prompt. It is the house image generator, the first half of the MAKO-LOCO pipeline.

Image model · no demo

LOCO

LOCO strips the background off a picture, leaving a clean cut-out with a see-through background — a transparent sprite, ready to sit on any card face.

When their cards arrive, they pay the same entry fee as every other card in the deck.