Fluid Wave

Fluid Wave simulates audio-reactive fluid dynamics, transforming your music into swirling, turbulent liquid that flows across the screen with physically accurate behavior. Bass frequencies inject energy into the fluid, creating powerful vortices and currents, while higher frequencies add fine turbulence and color diffusion. The result is a mesmerizing display of color and motion that feels genuinely organic. The fluid simulation runs in real time on the GPU, computing velocity fields, pressure, and advection at each frame. Audio energy is injected as forces at positions mapped to frequency bands, creating a direct link between what you hear and where the fluid moves. Color dyes are added along with the forces, producing rich, painterly mixing patterns as different audio elements blend and interact. Fluid Wave produces visuals that look like abstract oil paintings in motion. The organic, unpredictable nature of fluid dynamics means that even repetitive musical patterns produce constantly evolving visual results. It is one of the most visually rich effects in the library, and a showcase for what modern GPU computing can achieve in a web browser.