Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

A tiny art project just wandered onto Hacker News and somehow turned into a full-on digital garden party. The idea is simple enough for anyone: type in a name, and it becomes a tree inside an endless ink-painting-style mountain landscape you can pan around and explore. That alone got people swooning, with commenters calling it “clean,” “creative,” “simple and beautiful,” and generally acting like they’d discovered the calmest corner of the internet.

But of course, the real show was in the reactions. People didn’t just admire it—they immediately started planting multiple trees, testing different names and symbols, and comparing which patterns looked the coolest. One commenter was especially into names with repeated characters, basically declaring the weirdly repetitive ones the surprise visual winners. Another instantly went practical and asked for an SVG export so they could slap their tree onto a Git profile, because nothing says online identity like turning your username into decorative forest art. And then came the gentle, very relatable demand for more zoom: the crowd wants dramatic close-ups of the trees, the names, the mountains—the whole dreamy scene.

There wasn’t much fighting in this thread, but there was a tiny, delicious tension between two internet tribes: the “leave it as a beautiful little toy” crowd and the “please add features so I can use this for personal branding immediately” crew. No roasting, no rage—just wholesome art-app chaos, with everyone basically agreeing this thing rules.