Five techniques. One input. Your word, not ours. Type, hit enter, then cycle the mode — every technique re-runs against your text. A–Z, 0–9, basic punctuation. 14 chars max.

Classic katakana/latin rain on a full-viewport canvas behind every section — fade-trail compositing, one interval, 20% opacity. Always on, never the subject. The atmosphere the whole page breathes.

Cell-by-cell state map between fixed grids. No tweens, no libraries. Cells that appear fade in; cells that die blink out. Order is shuffled per pass so the transition reads as organic, not scanned.

Character substitution from a noise table, RGB-split shimmer via dual text-shadow, row-slice displacement. Restraint is the technique — burst, hold, repair, quiet. An accent, not an aesthetic.

Every glyph spawns offscreen with a random trajectory and snaps to its grid cell. transform-only motion, GPU-composited, one rAF loop. This is the technique the hero boot uses on the wordmark.

A character-density field displaced by a radial falloff around the pointer. Cells within the radius brighten and lift; outside it they rest. Touch works too — drag a finger across the panel.

Scanline overlay, barrel-vignette mask, phosphor persistence flicker and a slow vertical sweep — all pure CSS layers over a static glyph grid. Zero canvas, zero WebGL. The cheapest effect on the page.

Character-at-a-time stdout with a blocking cursor, fixed pacing and ASCII-drawn box rules. Runs once, then holds. The spec sheet it prints is the pitch.