Hi, I’m Derrick.
That’s Just Life.

How it’s made

One HTML file, Three.js r160, no models, no images, no fonts. Every brick is code.

1. Builder. Boxes, cylinders, lathes and tubes are transformed and merged into a handful of vertex-coloured meshes. Rain streaks and grime under every window ledge are baked into vertex colour.
2. Neon. Characters are drawn into a canvas atlas as glowing strokes over a blurred bloom layer; borders, bats and stars are real TubeGeometry with HDR colours above 1. Every sign has a flicker profile and a switch-off time.
3. Pipeline. Opaque scene → 4× MSAA half-float target with a depth texture → copy (colour + linear depth) → wet street and harbour shaders with screen-space reflections, refraction and Beer–Lambert absorption → rain and steam particles → multi-mip bloom, halation, ACES, grade, grain, chromatic aberration and tilt-shift.
4. Water. A 256² wave-equation ripple simulation runs at a fixed 60 Hz, masked to puddles and the harbour. Rain, your cursor, clicks and the junk's wake all drop into it.
5. Step-print. The frame is sampled at ~10 fps into a feedback buffer, so moving lights smear and stutter while static neon stays sharp.
6. Time. 23:00 to 05:30. Shutters come down, signs die one by one after 3 A.M., The flip clocks, timecode and almanac keep live Pacific time, and the almanac loses a page at midnight PT.

Keys: M mood · R rain · S step-print · T tune · Esc reset. All businesses are fictional.