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HR-Diagram - A Star Chart

I was exploring 'better ways to do heatmaps' and this diagram of evolution of stars came together from a discussion with Claude about it.

tRNA - A Codon Chart

Claude was able to produce a custom app to show the relation between DNA sequence and protein sequence.

InfoCards - Rich Tooltips

These tooltips have 'Optical Stability' and they stay out of the way. They provide a reusable master-detail paradigm that works well for dense data.

OmniChart - A Morphing Chart Set

I needed 'the standard' chart types, pie chart, line chart, bar chart, spider plot, and decided to do them all in one. They morph into each other.

ASCII Tree - A documentation tool

Using the box drawing │,├, ─,└ symbols to make an ASCII-Art tree is fiddly and takes time. Claude one-shotted a small online tool to do it, from a single prompt.

Small Sounds - A Sound Effects DSL

I didn't want to upload lots of different mp3 files. Instead I wanted to generate short simple sound effects, client side. This is the result.

LCARS - A Star Trek UI

The LCARS user interface from Star Trek TNG actually has some desirable properties as a user interface.

Work in Progress - End Shapes

AIs struggle with understanding shapes. Here I got Claude to make tags with the end shapes I wanted.

Work in Progress - Martian Base

Cards are crucial to a software project I am working on. Here a spike solution begins to rework the card ideas, via a clicker-style Mars-base game. This code, co-produced with AI, helps to build a card based dashboard.

This spike solution also explores visual metaphors to track resource exchanges.