Hall III — The Lab · Questing wing
Questing
Small, real things built and shipped end to end by an autonomous agent under my name. Each one is live, playable, and has its own page.
- Pieces
- 37
- Period
- 23 May 2026 – 7 Oct 2026
- Categories
- 9
- Maker
- Autonomous agent
- No. 37
Drive
400 self-propelled disks cluster without attraction — raise activity and watch a dense amber cluster nucleate from nothing. Motility-induced phase separation: the non-equilibrium phase transition where activity itself drives clustering.
- No. 36
Echo
Drag a sound source and listener around a 2D room. Watch 90 rays bounce off the walls — energy fades with each reflection. Turn absorption from stone cave to anechoic foam and watch the reverb collapse.
- No. 35
Dune
Scatter sand on a desert floor and watch barchan crescents emerge — the Werner 1995 cellular automaton: saltation, shadow zone, avalanche. The same three rules shape the Sahara, the Namib, and Mars.
- No. 34
Tremor
Click anywhere to make an earthquake. P-waves (amber, compressional) race ahead of S-waves (teal, shear) at a ratio of √3 — the same speed gap seismologists use to pinpoint every epicentre on Earth.
- No. 33
Murmur
Vicsek flocking — hundreds of self-propelled particles snap from disordered chaos into a single sweeping flock when noise drops below the critical threshold. Drag η past ~2.5 and watch global order emerge from nothing.
- No. 32
Kin
Spatial prisoner's dilemma — cooperators (amber) survive against defectors (teal) by clustering. Drag T past 1.74 and watch cooperation collapse.
- No. 31
Plume
Rayleigh-Bénard convection — heat the bottom, cool the top, and watch the fluid spontaneously organize into convection rolls when Ra crosses 1707.8.
- No. 30
Quench
Spinodal decomposition in a binary mixture — Cahn-Hilliard phase separation where labyrinthine domains nucleate without a barrier and coarsen as t^(1/3).
- No. 29
Nema
Topological defects in a nematic liquid crystal — ±½ vortices nucleate during a Kibble-Zurek quench, diffuse under Frank elastic forces, and annihilate in opposite-sign pairs.
- No. 28
Frost
A hex-lattice ice crystal grows from a single frozen seed via diffusion-limited crystallization. Vapor diffuses inward; growth-front cells accumulate it until they freeze. The Mullins-Sekerka instability makes tips outrun flat faces — 6-armed dendrites emerge from physics alone.
- No. 27
Rogue
Watch a rogue wave appear from nowhere and vanish without a trace — the Peregrine soliton, the exact NLS solution. Ocean surface rises to 3× the background amplitude, then falls back.
- No. 26
Eddy
Place vortices, watch 2000 tracer particles spiral into Lagrangian filaments. Two opposite vortices translate as a pair — the smoke-ring mechanism. Two same-sign ones orbit each other. Three or more: Hamiltonian chaos.
- No. 25
Swirl
Click to seed a chemical wave. Watch ring fronts collide and curl into self-sustaining spiral rotors — the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction alive in the browser.
- No. 24
Spin
Drag temperature through T_c ≈ 2.27 and watch the ferromagnetic phase transition happen. Magnetic domains crystallize from noise below the Curie point, fractal critical clusters form at it, and thermal disorder dissolves everything above.
- No. 23
Bolt
Twenty particles do Brownian random walks and freeze on contact with a growing cluster. Watch a fractal grow from nothing — the same physics behind lightning, snowflakes, and coral.
- No. 22
Slit
Watch a quantum wavepacket diffract through two slits and form interference fringes. Real-time 2D Schrödinger equation — not a classical approximation.
- No. 21
Pile
Drop sand onto a grid. Any cell with 4+ grains topples to its neighbors. Watch a fractal mandala emerge — Per Bak's self-organized criticality in your browser.
- No. 20
Coat
Adjust two numbers. Watch leopard spots, zebrafish stripes, and coral textures emerge from the same two reacting chemicals — Turing's 1952 morphogenesis equations in your browser.
- No. 19
Bounce
Drag the stadium slider. Watch a single billiard trajectory go from an ordered annular orbit to chaotically filling the entire shape — Bunimovich's 1974 ergodicity theorem in your browser.
- No. 18
Sync
Drag the coupling slider past K_c = 1.0. Watch 80 oscillators with different natural frequencies snap from incoherent chaos into perfect synchrony.
- No. 17
Mach
Drag a slider through subsonic, Mach 1, and supersonic. Watch Doppler compression, the sonic wall, and the Mach cone form as the source outruns its own waves.
- No. 16
Chirp
Two massive objects spiral together. Watch gravitational waves ripple through spacetime in real time.
- No. 15
Sling
Launch a probe into a miniature solar system. Gravity does the rest.
- No. 14
Pluck
Every day has its own melody. Click to hear it played on a music box.
- No. 13
Unda
Type any word. Watch the unique wave interference pattern ripple outward.
- No. 12
Lure
Type any word. Watch the strange attractor it collapses into.
- No. 11
Nodi
Type any word. See the standing-wave pattern it resonates into.
- No. 10
Mycel
Type a word. Watch it grow into a living mycelium network.
- No. 09
Cipher Bloom
Your message, encrypted into a secret garden.
- No. 08
Tactus
Tap a rhythm. Receive your sigil.
- No. 07
Spectra
Click any element — hear its unique tone. The periodic table as an instrument.
- No. 06
Stardraw
Draw your constellation — cursor movement becomes stars
- No. 05
Topomap
Your words as a mountain range
- No. 04
Rosetta
Your name in every living script — ten writing systems, one word
- No. 03
Lexiflora
Your text as a living garden — each letter a plant species
- No. 02
Scriptomancy
The deterministic oracle — same question, always the same truth
- No. 01
Typeprint
Your typing rhythm as a visual fingerprint