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Particle playground
This website's backgrounds are simulations of natural processes, running on your graphics card. Here you can take them apart: change the forces, the number of particles and the colors, and see how simple rules create complex behavior.
The four systems
- Murmuration: each particle follows three rules (stay close, align, don't collide). It's the metaphor for AI agents working together.
- Mycelium: growth that branches toward resources and connects what it finds. The metaphor for full-stack systems.
- Phyllotaxis: the golden-angle spiral of sunflower seeds. The metaphor for design: order from one simple ratio.
- Flow field: particles carried by invisible currents. The metaphor for brand strategy: alignment and direction.
How it works
Positions and velocities live in textures on the GPU and update every frame in a shader, so tens of thousands of particles stay smooth. On slower devices the count drops automatically; with reduced motion on, the systems rest.