01 / 09PhysicsJul 2026
Particle Life: When Dust Learned to Keep Its Distance
The first version made only two things: singular clumps and expanding dust. One repulsion zone changed everything.
8 min read
Project 01 · A nine-part field notebook
Inside Particle Life
From the force that keeps two particles apart to the engine that lets two thousand of them build a world. Read the physics, the code, and the design in the order they became understandable.
01 / 09
02 / 09PhysicsJul 2026
Particle Life: Twenty-Five Numbers That Build a World
The matrix is not a palette or a control panel. It is a directional language for attraction, repulsion, pursuit, and structure.
7 min read
03 / 09PhysicsJul 2026
Particle Life: The Engine Beneath Emergence
Fixed time, deterministic seeds, a toroidal world, and the spatial hash that lets two thousand particles remain an experiment.
9 min read
04 / 09PhysicsJul 2026
Particle Life: Making 2,000 Particles Glow at 60 FPS
The renderer is not decoration. It makes distance, motion, relationships, and failure legible without changing the physics underneath.
6 min read
05 / 09PhysicsJul 2026
Particle Life: How Do You Measure Something That Looks Alive?
A beautiful pattern is a discovery prompt, not a result. The project needed measurements that could disagree with my eyes.
5 min read
06 / 09AIJul 2026
Particle Life: Teaching the Simulation to Discover New Worlds
Random rules are easy. Finding random rules that remain structured and in motion requires a definition of interesting—and exposes its limits.
5 min read
07 / 09DesignJul 2026
Particle Life: Designing a Scientific Instrument People Want to Touch
The interface must invite play without hiding causality, expose evidence without becoming a dashboard wall, and work on a phone.
5 min read
08 / 09PhysicsJul 2026
The Complete Field Guide to Particle Life
Every control, four guided experiments, deterministic sharing, saved discoveries, screenshots, JSON, CSV, mobile use, and troubleshooting.
5 min read
09 / 09DesignJul 2026
What Building Particle Life Changed My Mind About
The project began as a visual experiment. It ended by teaching me that spacing, measurement, reproducibility, and interfaces are the same scientific problem.
4 min read
Featured Project
Particle Life — Primordial Soup
Thousands of particles. Simple rules. Complex life-like behavior emerges on its own.
Live simulationLaunch Simulation
PhysicsWebGPUSimulation
Visualizing the Invisible
Built with TypeScript and WebGPU — no structure is programmed, emergence happens naturally from a simple attraction matrix
Status:Live
View Project