The Gallery
50 instruments Immersive floor- INST·01experimentThe SpectrumStack spinning circles into any wave — then read the hidden chord of pure tones it was built from.fourierharmonicsspectrum
- INST·02predictionThe CascadeIterate one quadratic and a single stable future forks, forks again, and shatters into chaos.logistic-mapbifurcationchaos
- INST·03simulationThe FlowStir a real fluid with a finger — true Navier–Stokes, from smooth laminar sheets to turbulence.navier-stokesfluidturbulence
- INST·04simulationThe ThresholdCool a lattice of spins past the critical point and watch order snap into being.isingphase-transitioncriticality
- INST·05predictionThe DivergenceLaunch identical pendulums a hair apart and watch determinism lose the future.chaoslyapunovbutterfly-effect
- INST·06simulationThe SkinTwo chemicals diffuse and react until a blank sheet grows spots, stripes and mazes.reaction-diffusionturingmorphogenesis
- INST·07simulationThe WellCurve spacetime with a mass and watch starlight bend into an Einstein ring.relativitylensingspacetime
- INST·08experimentThe StrobeSpin a wheel, then change only your strobe — and watch it freeze, crawl, or run backward.samplingnyquistaliasing
- INST·09simulationThe RuleDial one of 256 laws over a single lit cell — and watch a whole world compute itself, row by row.emergencecomputationwolfram
- INST·10simulationThe FlockThree local rules, no leader — and a few hundred neighbours move as one mind. Push the noise and watch order break.emergencecollectivevicsek
- INST·11experimentThe SlitFire one quantum and it lands as a dot; fire a thousand and they are a wave. Then look at which slit it took — and the wave dies.quantummeasurementduality
- INST·12simulationThe WavefunctionEvolve a real complex wavefunction and see its hidden half — phase as colour, probability as light, and the vortices in between.quantumschrödingerphase
- INST·13simulationThe TunnelThrow a quantum at a wall too tall to climb — and watch a sliver of it appear, calmly, on the other side.quantumtunnellingschrödinger
- INST·14simulationThe CondensateCool a gas of atoms past its critical point and watch a sharp quantum peak condense out of the thermal cloud.bose-einsteinultracoldphase-transition
- INST·15experimentThe StringPluck one string, then read which particle it became — identity is a way of vibrating, not a thing.string-theoryharmonicsfourier
- INST·16simulationThe AttractorTrace the Lorenz butterfly through 3D phase space — deterministic, never repeating, and perfectly bounded. Lower ρ to dissolve it into order.chaosphase-spacelorenz
- INST·17simulationThe OrbitDrop three suns and watch determinism lose the sky — then find the one dance that never falls apart.gravityn-bodythree-bodychaos
- INST·18simulationThe ArrowThe laws run both ways; the world runs one way. Mix a gas, then try — and fail — to run it backward.entropythermodynamicstimeirreversibility
- INST·19simulationThe WalkPour ten thousand coin-flips down a board and watch chance pile, every time, into the same bell.random-walkcentral-limitdiffusionbrownian
- INST·20experimentThe CodeSpend redundancy against a noisy channel and watch a message survive — up to the limit no code can cross.shannonchannel-capacityerror-correction
- INST·21experimentThe SetDrag through the atlas of z² + c — every point you touch unfolds its own infinite world.mandelbrotjuliafractal
- INST·22experimentThe ConeTilt every clock and shear every axis — the light cone will not move, because c is the same in every frame.special-relativityspacetimecausalitytime
- INST·23simulationThe ChorusA thousand clocks, each its own pace — raise the coupling past K_c and watch them snap into one rhythm.synchronizationkuramotophase-transitionemergence
- INST·24predictionThe OracleSpin a thousand futures from one price — and read tomorrow as a probability, not a point.forecastingmonte-carlogbmprobability
- INST·25experimentThe LensA hidden truth drifts behind a fog of noisy blips — fuse model and measurement and watch the estimate snap into focus.kalmanbayesianestimationsignal-from-noise
- INST·26simulationThe PercolationDrag the fill slider past 59% and watch the lattice suddenly bridge itself — the giant cluster appears as if from nowhere.percolationcritical-thresholdnetworkemergenceconnectivity
- INST·27experimentThe DescentA neural network carves a boundary out of scattered dots — watch the loss fall and the shape appear, then push the learning rate until it all blows apart.neural-networkgradient-descentbackproplearningai
- INST·28simulationThe ContagionInfect one node and watch it race the graph — then change the network’s shape, or vaccinate just enough, and starve it.epidemicsirnetworkpercolationemergence
- INST·29simulationThe SandpileRain grains on a grid until it balances itself at the edge — then most do nothing and a few set off avalanches of every size.criticalityself-organizedavalanchepower-lawemergence
- INST·30simulationThe DendriteRelease blind random walkers and watch them refuse to make a blob — they freeze into a branching fractal of dimension 1.71.fractaldlagrowthrandom-walkself-organized
- INST·31experimentThe ShadowHand the instrument one wiggling time-series and watch it rebuild the whole hidden attractor from delayed copies of that single wire.reconstructionembeddingtime-serieschaostakens
- INST·32simulationThe RankSet a blind surfer loose on a web of links and watch importance pool where it belongs — the dominant eigenvector, found by just walking.networkspagerankmarkoveigenvectorgraph
- INST·33simulationThe TournamentSet a grid of purely selfish agents loose on the Prisoner’s Dilemma and watch cooperation organize itself — order with no architect, from the math of decision.game-theorycooperationemergenceagentsdecision
- INST·34experimentThe AnnealHeat a search until it jitters free of every trap, then cool it slowly into the best answer — optimization by borrowing temperature from physics.optimizationannealingmetropolisenergydecision
- INST·35simulationThe GardenRun Conway’s Game of Life — one rule, no knobs — and watch gliders, a glider gun and a universal computer grow out of a handful of lit cells.cellular-automataemergencecomputationcomplexitylife
- INST·36experimentThe EngramCue a Hopfield network with a corrupted memory and watch it roll downhill in energy to clean itself back — content-addressable memory, the self as a basin of attraction.memoryneural-networksattractorconsciousnessphysics
- INST·37experimentThe LoomSlide a ripple across a signal at every scale and weave a picture of when each frequency lives.wavelettime-frequencysignal-processing
- INST·38experimentThe PactFire entangled pairs at two detectors and watch their agreement break a wall no locally-real world can cross.entanglementbell-inequalityquantum
- INST·39experimentThe DemonSort the gas, fill the ledger, pay to erase it — the second law hides in information.information-theorythermodynamicsentropymaxwell
- INST·40simulationThe SolitonTwo waves collide and pass through each other, shapes intact — only position shifts.wavesnonlinear-dynamicskdvintegrable-systems
- INST·41experimentThe NoiseAdd noise to a signal too weak to detect and watch it become audible — the SNR peaks, then falls.stochastic-resonancesignal-processingnoiseperception
- INST·42experimentThe MazeAn agent learns to reach a reward by trial and error — watch the value flood back from the goal and a path appear out of nothing.reinforcement-learningq-learningagentdecisionai
- INST·43simulationThe BloomPure Gaussian noise condenses into form, steered by the score — the honest mechanism behind every generative diffusion model.diffusiongenerativescoresdeai
- INST·44simulationThe TidePredator and prey lock into an eternal chase — and enriching their world can swing the cycle all the way to extinction.predator-preyecologylotka-volterrapopulation-dynamics
- INST·45experimentThe RegimeHidden bull and bear regimes leave no label on the price — Viterbi recovers the most-likely path of states behind the noise.hidden-markov-modelviterbitime-seriesregime-detectioninference
- INST·46simulationThe SpiralA wavefront breaks, curls, and rotates forever — the excitable-media maths of the heartbeat and the brainstorm.excitable-mediareaction-diffusionspiral-wavesfitzhugh-nagumocardiac
- INST·47experimentThe DrumPour sand on a singing plate and the silence draws the shape of the sound — and asks whether you could hear the shape of the drum.eigenmodeschladnihelmholtzacousticsinverse-problem
- INST·48simulationThe HorizonRay-trace a black hole — drag around it as light wraps the shadow into a halo.relativityblack holelensing
- INST·49experimentThe BulbFly into the Mandelbrot set, one dimension up — a fractal that has no inside.fractalmandelbulbraymarch
- INST·50simulationThe WebStart with almost-uniform dust and let gravity carve the cosmic web in 3D.cosmologygravitystructure