Your Browser's Fingerprint, As Art
This uses the exact same technique real ad networks use to silently identify your browser across different websites, canvas fingerprinting, except it never leaves this page.
⚠️ What this technique normally does: a website draws hidden text and shapes to an invisible canvas, then reads back the pixel data. Tiny differences in how your specific OS, browser, GPU, and installed fonts render that canvas produce a pattern that's often unique enough to identify your device, without cookies, without your permission, and without any way for you to opt out. It's one of the more invasive tracking techniques in wide use today.
Regenerating re-samples the same underlying fingerprint. It looks the same each time because your actual rendering fingerprint hasn't changed, that consistency is exactly what makes the real technique effective for tracking.
✓ What's different here: the pixel data is used once, locally, to seed a small generative art pattern below. It's never hashed into an ID, never sent to a server, never stored anywhere, not even in your browser. Close this tab and it's gone. The only thing "identified" is the picture on your screen right now.
Why does everyone with the same setup see similar art? If you and someone else are on the same OS, same browser version, same GPU, and the same fonts installed, your canvas fingerprints (and therefore your art) may end up quite similar, that's the actual limitation of this technique for tracking too: it identifies configurations more than individuals, which is part of why real fingerprinting systems combine it with several other signals.