pixgel
Liquid pixel art editor with smooth SVG export
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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Gallery
Sharp vs pixgel — same five cells, two renderings