Karesansui — the dry garden
A meditative Japanese rock garden. Place, drag, and resize stones; the raked sand bends into rings around them. Three rake patterns (lines, spiral, basket weave), three stone types, a time-of-day sun, save/load preset arrangements, and pitch-mapped zen tones.
# Karesansui — 枯山水 A meditative dry-garden sandbox. A rectangle of fine white sand is raked into parallel grooves; place charcoal stones and the rake pattern recomputes in real time, curving into smooth concentric rings around each stone and relaxing back to straight lines in the open sand. ## How to play - **Left-click** empty sand to place a stone. - **Left-click + drag** a stone to move it — the rings follow live. - **Right-click** a stone to remove it. - **Scroll** (or +/−) over a stone to resize it. There is no win or loss. Rake, arrange, breathe. ## Controls Adjust rake spacing, ring influence, line thickness, sand & groove colors, and rake direction. Clear or reset anytime. A settings menu offers ambient/sfx volume, line thickness, and a high-contrast accessibility mode. The rake pattern is a custom WGSL surface shader: straight grooves come from an anti-aliased phase along the rake axis, and each stone bends the nearest grooves into rings via a smoothstep influence falloff. Your arrangement persists across reloads.
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