diff --git a/anim.js b/anim.js
index 064fd9a..29cf0d3 100644
--- a/anim.js
+++ b/anim.js
@@ -1,43 +1,77 @@
 'use strict';
 //setup and initialization
-const canvas = document.getElementById('c'),
-	ctx = canvas.getContext('2d', {alpha: false, desynchronized: true}),
-	w = canvas.width = document.body.offsetWidth,
-	h = canvas.height = document.body.offsetHeight,
-	space = 24, //pixel spacing between chars
+const canv = document.getElementById('c'),
+	ctx = canv.getContext('2d', {alpha: false, desynchronized: true}),
 	//primary and secondary colors
 	colors = ['f00', 'ff0', '0f0', '0ff', '00f', 'f0f'],
-	charset = '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
-	columns = new Uint32Array(Math.ceil(w / space)),
-	FPS_to_ms = f => 1000 / f,
-	randRange = (min, max) => Math.random() * (max - min) + +min
+	//I'm not using `Intl.Segmenter` because grapheme clusters can be rendered with ANY size
+	//supporting code-points instead of code-units is easier and less buggy
+	charset = [...'!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'],
+	Hz_to_ms = f => 1000 / f,
+	randRange = (min, max) => Math.random() * (max - min) + +min, //[min, max)
+	clamp = (x, min, max) => x > max ? max : x < min ? min : x //[min, max]
 
-let color_i = 0, start
-const baseFrame = () => {
-	ctx.fillStyle = '#' + colors[color_i++]; ctx.font = space + 'px monospace'
+let debounceDelay = 1500,//ms
+	space = 24, //px between chars, kinda works like "zoom"
+	speed = 30, //Hz of new chars drawn
+	dimDepth = 1 / 3,
+	minCol = 7, maxCol = 14,
+	w = canv.width = document.body.offsetWidth,
+	h = canv.height = document.body.offsetHeight,
+	color_i = 0, t
+
+const columns = Array(Math.ceil(w / space)).fill(0)
+
+const drawChars = () => {
+	ctx.fillStyle = '#' + colors[color_i++]
+	ctx.font = space + 'px monospace'
+	color_i %= colors.length
 	for (let i = 0, x = 0; i < columns.length; i++, x += space) {
 		const y = columns[i]
-		//draw a char
+		//render a codepoint
 		ctx.fillText(charset[randRange(0, charset.length) | 0], x, y)
 		//since the range is arbitrary, we have freedom to use powers of 2 for performance
-		columns[i] = y > (randRange(1 << 7, 1 << 14) >>> 0) ? 0 : y + space
+		columns[i] = y > (randRange(1 << minCol, 1 << maxCol) >>> 0) ? 0 : y + space
+		//if the canvas shrinks immediately before this,
+		//then this will cause a non-critical memory leak, and a "CPU leak"
+		//it's easily fixed by resizing again, or reloading
 	}
 }
-const nextFrame = now => {
-	if (now - start > FPS_to_ms(30)) {
-		//global dimming, make the trail disappear gradually
-		ctx.fillStyle = '#0001'; ctx.fillRect(0, 0, w, h)
-		color_i %= colors.length
-		baseFrame()
-		start = now
-	}
-	requestAnimationFrame(nextFrame)
+//makes the trails disappear gradually
+const doGlobalDimming = now => {
+	const delta = now - t, dim = Math.round(clamp(delta + dimDepth, 0, 0xff))
+	ctx.fillStyle = '#000000' + dim.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')
+	ctx.fillRect(0, 0, w, h)
+	t = now
+	requestAnimationFrame(doGlobalDimming)
 }
-
+//draw 1st frame
 requestAnimationFrame(now => {
 	//set BG to pure black
 	ctx.fillStyle = '#000'; ctx.fillRect(0, 0, w, h)
-	baseFrame()
-	start = now
+	drawChars()
+	t = now
 })
-requestAnimationFrame(nextFrame)
+//draw chars independent of FPS
+let IntID = setInterval(drawChars, Hz_to_ms(speed)),
+	RAFID = requestAnimationFrame(doGlobalDimming),
+	timeoutID = false
+
+const pause = () => {
+	clearInterval(IntID)
+	cancelAnimationFrame(RAFID)
+}
+
+const resize = () => {
+	w = canv.width = document.body.offsetWidth
+	h = canv.height = document.body.offsetHeight
+	const colCount = Math.ceil(w / space)
+	if (colCount > columns.length)
+		do {columns.push(0)} while (columns.length < colCount)
+	else columns.length = colCount
+}
+
+addEventListener('resize', () => {
+	clearTimeout(timeoutID)
+	timeoutID = setTimeout(resize, debounceDelay)
+})
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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index f629198..84579fd 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -28,11 +28,14 @@
 		<style>
 			body {
 				background-color: #000;
-				height: 100vh; width: 100vw;
-				margin: 0; border: 0;
+				width: 100vw; height: 100vh;
+				margin: 0; border: 0; /*these seem like no-op, I just leave them there, JIC*/
 				overflow: hidden; display: block
 			}
-			canvas {position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; image-rendering: pixelated}
+			canvas {
+				position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;
+				image-rendering: pixelated
+			}
 		</style>
 	</head>
 	<!--it's ironic that this page has more bytes in the head than the body itself lol-->