Spiralyst Lab · Blog
Notes from the studio.
Release news, behind-the-math explainers, and worked examples — the story of building an audio-reactive fractal studio for macOS, and what people do with it.
Make your house party feel like a venue.
Great parties feel designed, and the lever most home hosts skip is the visual layer on the biggest screen in the room. Here's the no-DJ, no-gear playbook for venue-grade, music-reactive ambiance on your TV.
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Spiralyst Lab v3.3.0 is live.
A quick note from the studio: v3.3.0 ships today. The headline change is a security upgrade to the local automation API — every request now needs a per-launch bearer token. Same model Jupyter and VS Code use. Existing customers, grab the latest build with your annual license.
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Spiralyst Lab v3.2.0 is live.
A quick note from the studio: v3.2.0 ships today. The headline addition is a new category of render type — Scopes — four audio visualizers that draw the sound itself rather than just react to it. Download now or grab the latest build with your existing license.
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Scopes are here.
The deep dive on the four new render types — a true oscilloscope, a Lissajous X-Y vectorscope, a spectrum analyzer, and a parametric harmonograph. The math, the audience hooks, and how each one fits with the rest of the studio.
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Math Mode: the formula behind the art.
A teacher's-tool overlay arriving in Spiralyst Lab v3.1 this week — pin the live equation of every fractal to the canvas, with parameter values updating in real time as you tune sliders or as audio reactivity drives them. Full parity across all 27 fractal types.
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Welcome to Spiralyst Lab.
A macOS app that turns any sound on your Mac into live fractal art — built for DJ sets, branded displays, and generative artists. We're live.
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Drive Spiralyst Lab from Claude.
Spiralyst Lab ships a complete local automation API — every on-screen control has a programmatic twin. Here's how to drive it from Claude Code, Anthropic's CLI agent, with a worked transcript.
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