Digital Platypus Labs
Small experiments, strange tools, and playful prototypes.
A workbench gallery for interactive sketches, Codex collaborations, art tools, Houdini-adjacent curiosities, and little ideas that want room to breathe.
Character Playground
Primordial
A curious little Cthulhu with a dramatic streak. Try a wink, a furious glare, or let his tendrils reach toward your pointer.
Underwater Exploration
Jellyfish Lake
Drift through a nocturnal galaxy of violet and emerald jellyfish. Tap a nearby bell to send it glowing toward the surface.
Living City
Manhattan
Open a city block like a book. Follow subways beneath the street, elevators through towers, and everyday lives stacked above the bedrock.
Marble Workshop
Michaelango's Cthulhu
Reveal a peace-sign Cthulhu from marble in Michaelango’s bustling Renaissance workshop, surrounded by sculptors, strolling visitors, flying chips and dust.
Interactive Tool
Pixel Number
Draw on a 16 by 16 pixel grid and watch the artwork become a 256-bit integer with odometer-style timing.
Emergent Simulation
Flock Lab
Shape a living field of boids with attraction, repulsion, shockwaves, and tunable flocking forces.
Resurrected AI Game
Gemini Adventure
Explore a tiny fantasy world whose characters keep talking—even when the dreaming machine is quiet.
Vim Learning Adventure
The Caretaker
Repair a strange, sleeping document by learning the small motions and spells of Vim.
Frequency Art Studio
Spectrum
Paint words, strokes, and images into frequency space, then watch the inverse Fourier transform reshape your pixels.
Interactive Code Lab
Reed–Solomon Playground
Break data blocks, spend a correction budget, and rebuild messages with the strange little geometry of finite fields.