CubeFulSquashes

For my 12th sketch of Mathober2025 coded in LiveCodeLab, CubeFulSquashes takes the 18th prompt: Primitives and uses many cubes as they can be considered a geometric

Poem

A Cube wishes 
To be more than a square
but wonders where?
and how, it can lead to switches?

Video

Code

simpleGradient teal,silver,black
45 times with i
    ambientLight 190,i*3,i
    fill brown
    noStroke()
    rotate -0.001 * (time % 45),Math.hypot(i,i^3),(i/1000)*3
    move -0.001 * (time % 8),0,i/5
    box wave(sin(time)/10000), wave((sin(time)*20)/18000)