A separate function of the atlas: nothing here is drawn. Each organism is a tiny law
executed at scale — walkers, grains, oscillators, clones split by one part in ten million. Tune the rules,
replay from zero, export the consequences. The butterfly effect, kept as a pet.
VIVARIUM
ORGANIC CONSERVATORY // ITERATIONS OF THE FAVOURITES + BORDER-AWARE NATURE // 34 SPECIMENS
Living ornament for real design work: the gapless Coons quilts you commissioned, shamans turned gardeners, fireflies in jars, marbling combs, dune seas — plus creatures that treat the card frame itself as habitat (ivy on the ledger line, pollen on the sill). Every specimen is background-grade and names one new reusable capability. Sibling site: LIVING PAINT (▧ header link) carries five of these as click-once brushes.
Every instrument here is a lecture you can touch: eigenflows, resonance, Gibbs, heat modes, d'Alembert ghosts, SOR relaxation, chaos onset, FFT uncertainty, Bessel drums, phonon gaps.
COMPUTATION WING
STANFORD CS106B // ALGORITHMS & DATA STRUCTURES, EXECUTING VISIBLY
Recursion blooming, sorts racing, searches flooding, queens retreating, hashes migrating, heaps breathing, trees balancing, minimax pruning — the invisible machinery of code, floodlit.
Phasors, Bode prophecies, Smith pilgrimages, Yee-grid Maxwell, junctions, constellations, PID gardens — and a lightning quartet: return strokes, corona, plasma, dielectric breakdown.
QUANT WING
STOCHASTIC FINANCE // PRICED, HEDGED, AND STRESS-TESTED
GBM fans, Monte-Carlo funnels, Black-Scholes surfaces, greeks, lattices, smiles, GARCH storms, OU leashes, frontiers, Kelly hills, copula tails, order books, contagion webs, Feynman-Kac.
ROBOTICS BAY
KINEMATICS · PLANNING · ESTIMATION · CONTROL — IN 3D WHERE IT COUNTS
FK totems, IK oracles, manipulability ellipses, RRT forests, Kalman lighthouses, particle séances, occupancy litigation, quadrotor cascades, C-space mirrors, pure pursuit rallies.
IMAGE DARKROOM
LOAD ANY IMAGE // 20 RARE FILTERS WITH SLIDERS — ▶ LOAD IMAGE…
Kuwahara oil, flow inkwash, chromatic prisms, ordered dithers, stained glass, spectral ghosts, pixel sorting, slit-scan time, repoussé relighting, quadtree mosaics, CRT resurrection, stippling. Every filter re-develops your loaded photograph live; PNG export at 2X/4X as always.
INTELLIGENCE ATELIER
MACHINE LEARNING & AI // 20 CONCEPTS THAT TEACH THEMSELVES — EVERY SLIDER HAS A TOOLTIP, EVERY NODE SAYS WHY
Gradient descent marbles, live backprop playgrounds, bias-variance theater, k-means congress,
attention spotlights, softmax thermostats, Q-learning gridworlds, GAN duels, diffusion ladders and an optimizer grand prix —
the era's core ideas, running honestly in front of you. Hover any slider for its explanation; open the dossier for why it matters and curated resources.