The Tianmu Herald

Interactive timeline of 362 Daoist texts spanning 3,000 years — from the Yijing to the Zhonghua Daozang. The full sweep of the Taoist literary canon, browseable and searchable.

Interactive I Ching divination. Toss three coins six times to build a hexagram. All 64 hexagrams with judgments, images, trigrams, and changing-line transformations.

Norse rune divination. Three casting methods — Odin's Rune, Three Norns, and Runic Cross. All 24 Elder Futhark runes with upright, reversed, and lore. Full rune codex included.

Interactive visual novel retelling of Aśvaghoṣa’s 1st-century epic poem on the life of the Buddha. Ten chapters from birth to enlightenment, told with Higurashi sprites and modernised prose.

Interactive visual novel retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh (~2100 BCE), the oldest great work of literature. Fifteen tablets from tyranny to wisdom, told with Umineko sprites and original prose.

Interactive visual novel of the Akkadian myth of Ishtar’s descent through seven gates to the Underworld. Stripped, imprisoned, restored by the waters of life. From the tablets of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.

Interactive visual novel of Snorri Sturluson’s euhemeristic origin myth of Odin. Twelve scenes from the cosmography of Midgard to Odin’s death and the succession of Njörd. From the Heimskringla, c. 1230 CE.

Live astronomical clock with SVG dial. Zodiac ring, 24-hour wheel, sun hand, moon phase. Sunrise, sunset, sidereal time, Julian date, equinox & solstice countdowns. Geolocation-aware.

Interactive historical world atlas. 53 map snapshots from 123,000 BCE to 2010 CE. Empires rise, borders shift, civilisations vanish — watch it all unfold.

Private Hytale server for the Tianmu community. Adventure mode — exploring, building, and enjoying each other's company in a world of our own.

Discord bot generating Septapus-style comic strips from chat messages using Higurashi: When They Cry visual novel sprites. Random characters, emotion detection, shout bubbles.

Animated flow map of every major river on Earth. Zoom from global to regional scale, watch the water flow, click any river for details. Natural Earth data, MapLibre GL JS.

Interactive map of 12 ancient and medieval trade networks. Silk Road, Spice Route, Trans-Saharan — animated caravans, clickable details, land & sea filtering. MapLibre GL JS.

Interactive map of 1,000+ designated scenic byways across all 50 states. All-American Roads, National Scenic Byways, state routes, BLM & Forest Service byways. Filter, search, explore.

Affluence heatmap of the United States. 84,000+ census tracts scored and colour-coded, with store markers for Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and REI. PMTiles vector tiles, MapLibre GL JS.

Visual archive of religious and cultural artifacts, symbols, texts, and figures. Covers 15 traditions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism. Magazine-spread articles with pixel-art aesthetic and page-flipping.

Canvas-based RPG in the browser. Dungeon-crawling, combat, puzzles, town scenes, and a custom soundtrack. Pixel art rendered in real time.

Userscript that turns X into 4chan. Country flags, post IDs, dubs/trips, greentext, (You), anon mode, Yotsuba B theme. The full experience.