Scroll-driven monochromatic PCB that builds trace by trace and inverts to white.
Hypotrochoid gear designs with a Bauhaus palette — red, blue, yellow, ivory.
Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion in earth tones — SEED, BRANCH, WEAVE, STILL phases.
Chladni plate resonance — standing wave nodal patterns driven by frequency progression.
Light caustics from wave interference — golden-ratio source arrays and Fibonacci impulses.
Agent-based slime mold simulation through MYCELIA, VESSEL, MEMBRANE, and DISSOLUTION.
Magnetic dipole field lines — single, opposing, quadrupole, and 6-dipole configurations.
Orbital gravity sources with golden-ratio spacing produce bright and dark field patterns.
Barkley rotating spiral PDE — 4 chemical oscillation parameter regimes.
N-body gravitational orbital mechanics with 6 bodies in a hexagonal configuration.
Sandpile avalanche model — toppling cascades visualised by grain height.
Potential-flow vortex field — point-vortex superposition revealing stream lines and phase topology.
Wolfram elementary cellular automata — rules 30, 90, 110, and 184 traffic simulation.
Langton's ant — emergence from simple rules, pre-warmed to show complex highway patterns.
Ising magnetic model — Metropolis MCMC across temperature-driven ferromagnetic phase transitions.
Wave interference and diffraction — coherence, double slit, grating, and aperture patterns.
Iterated function system chaos game — Barnsley Fern and other fractal attractors.
L-system grammar — Koch, Dragon, Hilbert, and Plant fractals with progressive reveal.
Hard-sphere molecular dynamics — 250-particle system from solid through melting to gas phase.
WireWorld cellular automaton — electron-head signals through ring, Lissajous, rose, and hypocycloid circuits.
Parametric curve families — rose, Lissajous, hypotrochoid, and Gielis superformula spirographs.
The closing question of the lab series. A single morphing Lissajous curve and twelve headings that ask: what were you watching, all this time?