Bucket Bender

Try the stripped-down browser demo on Itch.io. Unlock the full chaos for $7.99 – delivered as a single HTML file you can stash anywhere, no install needed.
(iPhone users: share the file to Microsoft Edge or any non-Safari browser.)

Bend the pixels. Splash the chaos. Break the machine – make beauty.

Bucket Bender is my neon-glitch sandbox for artists, designers, and curious trouble-makers. It began as a pattern-fill toy for my own work and spiralled into a full-blown image-mutation lab. Load any picture or generate noisy gradients inside the app, then unleash a toolkit built for delightful accidents.

• Shape & Sculpt: Scale, rotate, skew, hue-shift, jitter, or one-tap Fit your pattern flush to the canvas.
• Brush • Tap • Flood: Quick tap-fills, live-magnifier brushing, or tolerance-based flood-fills – now with on-canvas preview dots.
• Chaos Mode 2.0: Per-parameter checkboxes + intensity slider let you randomise exactly what you want, how hard you want.
• Multi-Pattern Cycling: Load up to ten textures, switch manually, or auto-cycle while you paint.
• Smart Simulate Fills: Choose Random, Grid, Poisson, Heat-Map placement, then tell it to keep going until your chosen coverage % is met.
• Animation Workbench: Build 1–300-frame loops, tweak keyframes, randomise on the fly, and export a tidy ZIP ready for GIF/video.
• Gradient Generator +: Craft seamless colour noise up to 4 096 px, with built-in loop-helper for animated ramps.
• Bake • Blur • Mutate: Freeze any state as a new base layer, blur it soft or crunch it hard, keep pushing.
• Draggable UI: Re-order tool panels with thumb-friendly handles; collapse what you don’t need.
• Undo / Redo ×5 + Reset: Experiment fearlessly – jump back, or nuke everything and start fresh.
• Weird Blend Modes: Classic compositing plus experimental misfits like Stapler, Fractured Prism, and Bitplane.

Built in a tech-psychedelic, circuit-bent skin: glowing sliders, collapsible panes, sticky action bar. It’s meant to feel fast, unruly, and delightfully off-kilter – a celebration of mutation and surprise.

What you get

• Standalone HTML (works offline on desktop, phone, or tablet)
• Export crisp PNGs or frame-ZIPs for instant looping
• Live magnifier for precision taps
• Mobile-first layout, thoroughly thumb-tested
• Constant free updates – I break things so you can break images

Bucket Bender™ – forged by a glitch artist, not a corporation.

This project is a hyper-glitched labour of love. If you hit weird edge-cases or have wild feature ideas, drop me a note – I iterate fast and weird. And please tag me on socials with your creations for a boost! I love seeing your output.

(Yes, some code was AI-assisted – but every design choice and every glorious accident was steered by a real human who believes mutation is the soul of creativity.)