/living-ink · Sep 27, 2026
Living Ink
An interactive inkblot. Pour ink with your finger or cursor; it mirrors across the fold, keeps bleeding into the paper, then asks what you see.
An inkblot you make yourself. **Drag to pour ink, hold still to let it pool.** Everything you lay down mirrors across the fold, and the ink keeps living after you lift — wicking along the paper fibres, feathering at its edges, darkening as it dries.
When the sheet settles, it asks one question: *what do you see?* Your answer is kept with the plate, and you can save the plate as an image. The originals stopped at Plate X; every sheet here continues the count.
Mostly black ink with a red accent, after Rorschach's 1921 cards. It is a parlor game, not a test.
Built for Interactive Inkblot on PlaiGround.
[Pour some ink →](/living-ink/play/)
A small wet-media simulation in raw WebGL 2: damped flow for pushing wet ink, a porous-medium wicking rule gated by the paper's sizing, and pigment that settles fastest at the drying front.