Tom Wellborn — Projects

Games, simulations, and apps — browser-based, no installs, no accounts.

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Photography

Photography

A curated selection of photographs — nature, landscape, and night sky. Watermarked originals, slideshow and keyboard navigation.

Tom Wellborn 2026
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Simulation

Fish Tank

A living aquarium with eight species, interactive feeding, rare events, and swappable room backgrounds including a sky room with passing aircraft and a sun-and-moon almanac for your location. A sleep machine with alarm clock, a retro radio with 60+ live stations, and a few secrets worth finding.

HTML · Canvas 2D 2026
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Utility

Wellborn Nightwatch

A bedside clock-radio HUD built for rest first — a fill-the-screen Big Sleep Clock that fades to just the time, a mixable bed of sleep sounds, and a screen you can dim to almost nothing. Weather, a 3-day forecast, a Tonight sky almanac, alarms, a spoken briefing and live radio are here too, quietly. Installable. By Wellborn Electronics.

HTML · ES Modules 2026
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Visualization

Mandelbrot Deep Zoom

A cinematic descent into the seahorse valley — 10,000 frames, 1.5 billion× magnification, up to 500,000 iterations per pixel. Rendered offline over several days in Python using perturbation theory.

Python · fractalshades 2026
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App

Holdfast

Your private vault. Store sensitive financial, legal, and estate information — encrypted client-side with no cloud and no servers. Your data lives in a file you control.

HTML · CSS · JS 2026
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Visualization

Hypercube

Drag to spin a wireframe geometric object in up to nine dimensions — from a line segment all the way to an enneract. Each transition morphs the shape by extruding it into the next spatial dimension. Toggle filled panels for a solid model look, color-coded axes, perspective or orthographic projection, and per-axis rotation locks.

HTML · CSS · JS 2026
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Arcade

Pulse

Tap to thrust, gravity pulls you down. Fly through the gaps and don’t touch the walls. One button, endless play — the barriers get faster and the gaps get tighter the longer you last.

HTML · CSS · JS 2026
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Arcade

Asteroids

Classic arcade reimagined with modern depth — boss waves every five rounds, upgrade choices between waves, shields, combo scoring, elite asteroids, and hyperspace risk. Screen-wrapping survival with full touch support for mobile.

HTML · CSS · JS 2026
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Arcade

Space Invaders

Faithful browser recreation of the 1978 arcade classic — descending alien formations, destructible shields, UFO bonus rounds, and escalating wave speed. Hold the line.

HTML · CSS · JS 2025
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Simulation

Falling Sand

Particle physics sandbox with 16 interactive materials — acid, electricity, fire, water, oil, wood, stone, and more. Wind, temperature, gravity, and explosive chain reactions all in play at once.

HTML · CSS · JS 2026
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Simulation

Physarum

Agent-based simulation of Physarum polycephalum slime mold growth. Thousands of particles deposit and follow chemical trails, self-organizing into the same efficient network patterns the organism grows in nature.

HTML · CSS · JS 2026
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Simulation

Solar System

Interactive solar system simulation using real JPL heliocentric orbital formulas. Date-based planet and moon positions, follow camera with animated flight, timeline scrubber, and object cards with facts and Wikipedia links for every body in the system.

HTML · CSS · JS · p5.js 2026
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App

LottoScan

Lottery ticket scanner — scan your ticket, check results for NY Powerball, Mega Millions, Lucky for Life, and more. PWA, works on mobile.

HTML · CSS · JS 2026
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Writing

Substack

Essays and dispatches — on belief and leaving it, the political moment, and whatever else is worth thinking through in long form. Subscribe to follow along.

Tom Wellborn 2026
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Book

Concluding Atheism

A Primer for Newly Secular Free Thinkers. Part argument, part memoir — leaving an evangelical childhood by inches, and what to do with the political moment the religion has been weaponized into. For the lapsed believer, the closeted skeptic, and anyone trying to talk to family across the divide.

Thomas Wellborn 2026