The Scroll Art Museum

Bund FC

Inspired by the architecture of the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai.

Candlelight

Flickering columns with random expansions and contractions.

Pipe Swap

Vertical pipes that criss cross and swap places.

Towers and Towers

Growing towers sprouting from the bottom of the screen.

PyTexas 2024 Talk: 20 GOTO 10

Al Sweigart discusses scroll art at the PyTexas 2024 Conference in Austin.

In and Out

Traveling lines come in and out from the sides.

Any Size Diagonal Maze

Random "mazes" created by diagonal lines of various sizes.

Skybursts

Fireworks-like bursts spray downwards.

Stripeout

Vertical stripe wipes.

Forth and Back

A stripe knocking side to side, back and forth, against an increasing chaotic background.

Moire

Mesmerizing moiré patterns created from the Bresenham circle algorithm.

Twists

Vertical columns that twist around each other.

Skulls and Hearts

A parallax experiment with scroll art with ASCII art skulls and hearts.

Torn Textile

A shredded design reminiscent of a ship's tattered sails.

PAC Wall

Square tiles of directional flow, inspired by the design of the wall of the Performing Arts Center in New York.

Vertical Struts

Vertical lines that appear like beams across floors of an under-construction skyscraper.

Triangle Hall

Diagonal lines spawning from their horizontally moving predecessors, creating a hallway effect of triangular passages.

Diagonal Sweep

A basic left-to-right or right-to-left sweep transition animation.

Forbidden Zone

A music video performance made from several scroll art pieces.

Inchworm

A little inchworm that moves across the screen.

Thorns

A rapid pattern that looks like thorns or audio waves.

Hex Portals

Hexagon-shaped portals against a scratchy background.

Snail Trail

Snails gliding across the screen.

Orbital Travels

A collection of random points moving in sine waves.

Starfield on the Apple IIe

The term "scroll art" is new but these text-based programs don't require modern computers. Here is a video of the Starfield program running on a 1983 Apple IIe.

Connected Pipes

Random squiggles that form a sort of connected pipework. There are some isolated sections but no dead ends.

Diamond Sky

A star- and diamond-filled sky.

Full of Squares

Squares of various sizes.

Proton Stream

Lightning streams energetically jittering, like a Ghostbuster's proton pack.

Wallpaper

The standard wallpaper scroll art, including several designs and tessellations.

Tri Grid Scaffolding

A triangular grid in cyclic densities.

Striped Triangles

Striped triangles in cyclic densities.

Spike

A simple spike pattern.

Math Function

Bitmap patterns based on Cartesian coordinate inputs to a math function.

Toggler

Triangular patterns toggled between two characters, with variants.

Matrix Screensaver

Hacker-themed trails of ones and zeros.

Diagonal Maze

The classic Commodore 64 pattern.

Ducklings

Cute combinatorial explosion of ASCII art ducks.

Sine Message

Text moving in a sine wave pattern.

Cube Wall

Random cube wallpaper.

Zig-zag

A simple back and forth animation.

Starfield

Asterisks in cycles of density.