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Components/ns-ui/background-ascii-wake
This component no longer exists. It was in ns-ui’s manifest when we first indexed it and is not there now — the registry served its inventory on 2026-08-07 and this item was not on it. The install command below will fail. It is kept here because a tutorial somewhere still tells people to run it.

Background ASCII Wake

ns-ui/background-ascii-wake
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Full-bleed monospace cursor-trail field: a sparse ambient scatter at rest, with the pointer dragging a decaying character comet whose length and brightness depend on how fast it moves.

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Install it

npx shadcn@latest add https://design.helpmarq.com/r/background-ascii-wake.json

Source

registry/core/background-ascii-wake/component.tsxdesign.helpmarq.com/r/background-ascii-wake.json · first 6 KB
1"use client";
2
3import { useEffect, useRef } from "react";
4
5// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
6// WakeGlyph — a full-bleed monospace character-comet field. A sparse, static
7// ambient scatter sits at rest; the pointer stamps a "heat" value into the
8// cells it passes over, and each stamped cell decays back toward the ambient
9// floor at a rate fixed at stamp time — a fast pass stamps many cells at a
10// low, quick-decaying heat (a long, thin, short-lived wake), a slow pass
11// stamps fewer cells at high heat with a slow decay rate (a fat, lingering
12// blob). Direct-DOM rAF over a persistent Float32Array grid, glyph density
13// mapped from an ASCII ramp, theme-aware ink read via getComputedStyle.
14// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
15
16const RAMP = " .:-=+*#%@";
17
18export interface WakeGlyphProps {
19 /** grid cell size in px */
20 cellSize?: number;
21 className?: string;
22}
23
24// deterministic PRNG so the ambient scatter is stable within a session
25function mulberry32(seed: number) {
26 let a = seed >>> 0;
27 return () => {
28 a |= 0;
29 a = (a + 0x6d2b79f5) | 0;
30 let t = Math.imul(a ^ (a >>> 15), 1 | a);
31 t = (t + Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 7), 61 | t)) ^ t;
32 return ((t ^ (t >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296;
33 };
34}
35
36export function WakeGlyph({ cellSize = 12, className = "" }: WakeGlyphProps) {
37 const canvasRef = useRef<HTMLCanvasElement>(null);
38
39 useEffect(() => {
40 const canvas = canvasRef.current;
41 if (!canvas) return;
42 const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
43 if (!ctx) return;
44
45 const reduced = window.matchMedia("(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)").matches;
46 let fg = getComputedStyle(canvas).color;
47 const monoFont =
48 getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).getPropertyValue("--font-mono") ||
49 "ui-monospace, monospace";
50
51 let dpr = 1;
52 let cols = 0;
53 let rows = 0;
54 let heat: Float32Array = new Float32Array(0);
55 let rate: Float32Array = new Float32Array(0);
56 let ambient: Float32Array = new Float32Array(0);
57 let raf = 0;
58 let last = 0;
59 const pointer = { x: -1, y: -1, t: 0, has: false };
60
61 const resize = () => {
62 dpr = Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2);
63 const { width, height } = canvas.getBoundingClientRect();
64 canvas.width = Math.max(1, Math.round(width * dpr));
65 canvas.height = Math.max(1, Math.round(height * dpr));
66 ctx.setTransform(dpr, 0, 0, dpr, 0, 0);
67// … truncated

Files it writes

  • registry/core/background-ascii-wake/component.tsx

Facts

Registry
ns-ui
Type
registry:ui
Access
Free
Files written
1
Licence
MIT
In the index
at or before 2026-08-02
Last confirmed
12 days ago

Go to the source

Docs on ns-ui design.helpmarq.com nikolas-sapa/ns-ui on GitHub Raw registry item This item as JSON

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