Prithvish Baidya (d4mr)

systems engineer

ESC
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2026 · active

pixgel

Liquid pixel art editor with smooth SVG export

pixgel — sharp pixels on the left, the same cells blended into a single liquid shape on the right

A pixel art editor where pixels don’t sit as hard squares. They bead together like droplets of mercury. Two cells touching only at a corner pinch into one shape via a smooth capillary bridge.

The geometry isn’t invented. Three rules per corner, mirroring how soap films meet at Plateau borders and how ferrofluid drops fuse under a magnetic field. Authored on a discrete grid, rendered with the surface tension of a liquid.

Runs entirely in the browser. SVG export at any resolution. Share-by-URL packs the whole drawing into the URL fragment via deflate-raw — no backend, no accounts. Built on Cloudflare Workers Static Assets.

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Sharp vs pixgel — same five cells, two renderings

Sharp vs pixgel — same five cells, two renderings