# Lab

Small interfaces, visual experiments, and tools I make to think with.

- [Red Alert Armory](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/tanks): A growing Red Alert archive brings battlefield units and structures together on one interactive blueprint table. (Interactive experiment · 2026)
- [Afterglow](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/afterglow): A dark gradient backdrop generator — one seam of neon light in a grainy black field, folded to a point or bent around an eclipse. (Generative experiment · 2026)
- [Threshold](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/threshold): A figure at a doorway that burns orange in a black hall — one photograph, rebuilt as a room and lit in real time. (Interactive experiment · 2026)
- [Iris](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/iris): A procedural iris painting generator — thousands of layered pastel strokes with dry-brush texture and domain-warped color smears. (Generative experiment · 2026)
- [Fiber Field Generator](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/fiber): Five fields of perfectly straight optical fibers, drifting, with light flowing along them. (Interactive experiment · 2026)
- [Nebula](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/nebula): A procedural nebula image generator — volumetric cloud, a blazing core, and a field of stars behind it. (Generative experiment · 2026)
- [Particle Tide](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/particle-tide): A GPU particle field that folds blue, cyan, and gold currents into a continuously shifting tide. (Interactive experiment · 2026)
- [Radial Calendar](https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/calendar): A year of Chinese and U.S. public holidays, drawn as a radial timeline. (Interactive experiment · 2026)