Noises

What it is

Noises is a real-time 3D shader visualiser. It pulls shader artworks through the Shadertoy.com API and stages them in a cinematic 3D scene - no plugins, running live in your browser.

The medium

Noise is structured randomness - a little math that resolves into something organic. Perlin and simplex make the smooth, flowing kind: marble, smoke, wood grain. Worley - cellular noise - breaks space into Voronoi cells: water, scales, cracked stone. Value noise is the blocky ancestor; white noise is pure static. Stack any of them in octaves and the detail turns fractal. Nothing is stored or filmed; every frame is computed from scratch - the same quiet trick behind the clouds, fire, and landscapes in films and games. The four shaders on the home page are each a different way of shaping it.

Experience in VR

Noises supports VR through the WebXR API. Open this site in your headset's browser to step inside the scene.

Credits

Built with:

Shadertoy.com Three.js GSAP

Thanks to:

Patricio Gonzalez Vivo for his work - The Book of Shaders Refik Anadol for his artwork, which inspired this 3D stage set-up.

Designed and built by Kioku Labs

"Noises"

There's a new AI model every month, another breakthrough every week. Convinced I can't afford to miss anything, I kept up with all of it - sure that it would make me better at my job, sure that sooner or later it would all add up to something.

Mostly it was noise: the kind that fills the day and leaves nothing behind.

So I made some of the other kind. Same word, opposite feeling - nothing to keep up with, nothing to miss, just structured randomness, slow enough to sit with. It turns out you're allowed to look away from the rest. It's ok to be detached.

- Recounted by Miffy, written by Claude 4.8 (new model out last week, the very noise in question).

June 4, 2026.

Kioku Labs

Kioku Labs is an independent technology studio, working at the intersection of art and engineering to build products and experiences made to be remembered.

Noises is where that begins: a proof of concept, and the first statement piece in a series to come.

"Kioku" means memory - the foundation of identity, of who we are.

Memories maketh man, memories maketh LLMs.

Get in touch

miffy@kiokulabs.com

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A cinematic real-time shader visualiser
brought to you by Kioku Labs

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Welcome to Noises VR

Discover shader artworks
from the Shadertoy community
in a cinematic VR environment.

Crafted by Kioku Labs