Cathode: Screen Effects

Cathode turns your iPhone or iPad into a screen worth handing over. Twenty full-screen effects, each one drawn live on the device at full frame rate. Nothing here is looping video and nothing is a static wallpaper — every pixel is computed while you watch. WHAT IS IN IT • Digital Rain — columns of glyphs falling through the dark. Choose the script: Katakana, Japanese, Chinese, Hangul, Vietnamese, Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, hex or binary. Let it fall as random characters, as good wishes written in that language, or as anything you type yourself • Code Editor — source typing itself out character by character, with line numbers and syntax colours, in C, Python, HTML, Java, SQL or JavaScript • Terminal — a console mid-session: boot logs, hex dumps, network traces • Breach — a wall of small monitors working a system open, with a progress bar counting up to the moment it gives • Locator — a map…