dot sketch

A gesture-to-icon motion piece on a dot-matrix screen: the whole 1080 × 1080 stage is one field of 54 × 54 white dots on near-black, in a seamless 12-second loop of three gestures. A finger draws a wobbly heart and the dots part like sand and light up under it; on release a ripple runs out, the line straightens into a clean heart (each point of the rough stroke moves onto the clean path, no crossfade), fills in and beats twice with a ripple on each beat. Then a shaky zigzag snaps into a sharp lightning bolt and a charge runs down it, and a rough check snaps clean as a ring closes around it and a last ripple follows. Each shape dissolves in a wave from its centre before the next. Every frame the shapes are drawn into a small offscreen canvas and each dot reads its block's coverage as its size and brightness, a halftone. Canvas 2D only: no images, no fonts, no libraries besides React; a stage that scales to fit any window, a canvas buffer that stays sharp on high-density screens, a reduced-motion still, and frame-exact rendering (window.render(t), window.__RENDERING__).