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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