Topography Background — component for generative & ascii (react)

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Thin contour lines of a noise terrain rising from flat and slowly reshaping, like a breathing map

• Install: npx shadcn@latest add @animate-ui/backgrounds-topography
• Registry: animate-ui · Framework: react · License: MIT + Commons Clause
• Docs and preview: https://animate-ui.com/docs/backgrounds/topography
• Source: https://github.com/imskyleen/animate-ui/blob/main/apps/v2/registry/backgrounds/topography/index.tsx
• Example: https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-animate-ui-topography-background.mp4?v=95722 (Captured from the library’s own demo page (Animate UI))
• Time: Drive from the frame. Runs on its own clock (requestAnimationFrame, timers, springs or CSS). Drive it from frame / fps before rendering, or the render drifts.
• Runs: local render, free
• Aspect: any

Prompt that renders it frame-exact

Use the Topography Background from Animate UI (https://animate-ui.com/docs/backgrounds/topography, MIT + Commons Clause) as a calm, editorial backdrop of living contour lines. Install with npx shadcn@latest add @animate-ui/backgrounds-topography and place it full-frame with text-neutral-500 (or set lineColor). The shader samples noise at z = time × 0.00005 × speed and the opening rise is a 1.8 s ease-out, both called from requestAnimationFrame: copy the component, drop the loop and call its draw with time = frame / fps × 1000 (Remotion: useCurrentFrame(); HyperFrames: on hf-seek), computing the rise from the same clock. Set interactive={false}; tune levels for line count, scale for feature size and speed for drift.

Used in

• Math animation
• Whiteboard & hand-drawn
• Live-coded music video
• Shader loop
• Generative art loop
• ASCII & retro looks

More generative & ascii

• ASCII Render Pass — npx hyperframes add ascii-render-pass
• ASCII Trail Reveal — npx hyperframes add ascii-trail-reveal
• Fractal Noise — npx hyperframes add fractal-noise
• Gabor Noise — npx hyperframes add gabor-noise
• Worley Noise — npx hyperframes add worley-noise
• ASCII Render — npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/ascii-render