FreeEffects and animation

Char Sphere

Rotating 3D glyph sphere — caller-supplied character palette (`chars: [String]`) is randomly scattered across spherical Fibonacci points with perspective-scaled SF Rounded font and optional back-face culling

Free
Free with a ShipSwift account.

Copies a short instruction with your private download link. Paste it into your agent: it downloads the whole skill (the source code, the setup steps and the mistakes we already made for you) and builds the screen.

Works with

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What it does

Sibling of Dot Sphere where each sphere point renders as a glyph instead of a filled circle. The chars: [String] array doubles as both a character palette and a length hint — each sphere point is assigned a random index into this array once at cloud-init time so the per-glyph character is stable across frames. Optional back-face culling skips the far hemisphere when readability matters more than depth. Font is SF Rounded; perspective scales the point size. Default palette is Tao Te Ching Chapter 1 (public-domain ancient Chinese text). Emoji works the same way — a chars array of regional-indicator flag emojis renders as a flag globe with zero bundled assets.

Requires iOS 18+ / macOS 15+ (SwiftUI TimelineView + Canvas).

What you get

  • ✓571 lines of source code, ready to paste
  • ✓File Layout
  • ✓Source Code
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