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🎨 Interactive Art & Living Worlds · 51 Free Tools

🎨 Interactive Art & Living Worlds Tools

Generative algorithmic art, cellular automata, chaotic pendulums, particle sandboxes, and evolving digital ecosystems running live in your browser.

All 51 Interactive Art & Living Worlds Calculators & Utilities

πŸŒ€ 3D Spirograph Nebula

A true 3D spirograph: torus knots, quantum roses and harmonograph spiros woven into space with perspective, additive glow, phosphor trails, echo interference, an orbiting starfield, gesture orbit and.

#spirograph#nebula#interactive
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🦠 Bioma Petri Dish

An artificial life (ALife) Darwinian simulation. Engineer genetic cellular strains, watch natural selection optimize camouflage and hunting behaviors across thousands of generations, and introduce ...

#bioma#evolutionary#petri
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🌿 ChronoGarden Terrarium

Cultivate a communal fractal botanical garden over time. Plant mathematical trees using Aristid Lindenmayer's L-Systems, cross-breed genetic strains, watch branches sway in the dynamic breeze, and ...

#chrono#garden#system
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✨ Constellation Weaver

Weave constellations across a shared celestial sphere. Place spectral stars, connect mythological asterisms, record astronomical lore, and preserve collective starlit storytelling over time.

#constellation#chronicle#star
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πŸ€ Bouncy Ball Box

A box full of bouncy balls β€” shake, tilt, add gravity wells, and watch the chaos unfold

#desktop#toy#bouncy
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🫧 Bubble Wrap Popper

Satisfying bubble wrap popping β€” click to pop, hold to drag-pop entire rows, shake to reset

#desktop#toy#bubble
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🏹 Catapult Simulator

Build a medieval trebuchet, load projectiles, set the counterweight, and launch!

#desktop#toy#catapult
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πŸ€„ Domino Chain Reaction

Place dominoes in a line, tap the first one, and watch the satisfying chain reaction cascade

#desktop#toy#dominoes
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🐦 Drinking Bird

The classic heat-engine desk toy β€” a bird that perpetually dips its beak into water using thermodynamics

#desktop#toy#drinking
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πŸŒ€ Fidget Spinner

Spin a fidget spinner with realistic angular momentum β€” flick to spin, hold to accelerate, watch it slow down

#desktop#toy#fidget
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🫧 Lava Lamp

Mesmerizing blob physics β€” watch wax rise, split, merge, and fall in a heated glass vessel

#desktop#toy#lava
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🎱 Marble Run Builder

Place ramps and bumpers, then release marbles and watch them roll with real physics

#desktop#toy#marble
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πŸͺ’ Rope Physics

Drag, swing, and wrap a realistic rope with verlet integration β€” pin ends, cut segments, add weights

#desktop#toy#rope
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⏳ Sand Hourglass

Granular physics β€” watch thousands of sand grains flow, pile, and avalanche through a narrow neck

#desktop#toy#sand
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Slinky Physics

Watch a spring slinky walk downstairs with realistic coil physics β€” grab it, stretch it, let it go

#desktop#toy#slinky
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〰️ Wave Machine

A chain of coupled pendulums β€” drag to create waves, watch interference patterns, and explore resonance

#desktop#toy#wave
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🫨 Earthquake Seismograph Lab

Trigger a fault rupture and watch P, S and surface waves race outward β€” then read the synthetic seismogram: Sβˆ’P time lag gives the distance, amplitude gives the magnitude, and seismic attenuation b...

#earthquake#seismograph#lab
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🌊 EchoPond Cymatics

A communal fluid-dynamics sanctuary. Cast water drops into a resonant pond. Wave ripples interfere via the physical wave equation, triggering soothing pentatonic water chimes when constructive wave...

#echo#pond#water
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πŸ› οΈ Engine Displacement

Convert litres, cubic centimetres and cubic inches (CID). 1 L = 1,000 cc; 1 inΒ³ = 16.387064 cmΒ³. A β€œ5.0” V8 is 5,000 cc β‰ˆ 305 CID. Bore Γ— stroke Γ— cylinders is the geometric displacement, not power.

#engine#displacement#converter
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⛰️ Erosion & Landscape Lab

Sculpt a landscape and watch it move. Set rainfall, soil erodibility, vegetation cover and steepness β€” the runoff erodes the hills, transport by flowing water sorts/deposits the sediment downstream...

#erosion#landscape#lab
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🌧️ Rainfall & Flash Flood Lab

A catchment that converts rain into a flood hydrograph. Horton infiltration soaks the soil, the rational method produces peak discharge, and a Kirpich time-of-concentration shapes the river's rise ...

#flash#flood#lab
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πŸ•ΈοΈ Food Web & Trophic Energy Lab

Build a food web and see it breathe. Pick a habitat, toggle species in or out, set sunlight/rainfall and the predation rate β€” then run the simulation: producer growth, consumer–prey dynamics (logis...

#food#web#ecosystem
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✨ Generative Joy Kaleidoscope & Luminous Mandala

An interactive radial symmetry mirror engine and meditative visual sanctuary. Draw luminous ribbons with your cursor, activate mesmerizing mathematical auto-drift, listen to resonant harmonic drone...

#generative#joy#kaleidoscope
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πŸͺ HarmonicOrbit Loom

An evolving celestial music box. Launch orbiting planets into gravitational fields. As orbital bodies cross harmonic resonance spokes, they trigger soothing mathematical melodies synthesized in rea...

#harmonic#orbit#gravitational
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⛰️ Heightmap 3D Sculptor

Paint mountains with your pointer on the map (left) and watch a living 3D island grow (right) β€” with beaches, forests, snowcaps, animated water and erosion. Or generate procedural islands, ridges a...

#heightmap#sculptor#interactive
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πŸŒ€ Hurricane Engine

A rotating tropical cyclone whose intensity is set by Emanuel's maximum potential intensity: sea-surface temperature, Coriolis (latitude) and vertical wind shear. Warm water and a spinning Earth bu...

#hurricane#engine#interactive
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🎐 Solarpunk Wind Chime Sanctuary

An acoustic sanctuary of physics-driven resonant wind chimes and generative ambient soundscapes. Drag individual chimes to play them, summon warm wind gusts, or relax and let the natural breeze cre...

#interactive#wind#chime
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πŸͺ¨ Joyful Zen Rock Garden & Ripple Raker

Experience the tactile calm of a Japanese Karesansui dry landscape garden. Rake intricate sand ripples with real-time displacement textures, arrange smooth river stones and moss mounds, listen to s...

#joyful#zen#sand
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πŸŒ• Lunar Tide Simulator

The equilibrium tide, live: Moon and Sun each raise two opposing bulges (H ∝ cos²θ), Earth rotates beneath them, and the 24h50m lunar day makes the tide arrive 50 minutes later every day. Set the l...

#lunar#tide#simulator
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πŸ—ΊοΈ Map Projection Distortion Lab

Every flat world map lies β€” the only question is how. Draw nine real projections, overlay Tissot's indicatrix (circles that show exactly how the map stretches), and get the area and angle distortio...

#map#projection#distortion
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β˜„οΈ Meteor Shower Sky Lab

Stargaze a live meteor shower: pick a real shower (Perseids, Geminids, Leonids…), set radiant altitude, observing skill and light pollution β€” the model converts the catalogue Zenithal Hourly Rate i...

#meteor#shower#sky
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🌸 Phenology & Growing Degree-Day Lab

Phenology is the study of seasonal timing β€” when leaves open, flowers bloom and swallows return. This lab models it with real growing degree-days (GDD): heat accumulated above a species-specific ba...

#phenology#gdd#calendar
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🎨 PixelVerse Canvas

An evolving communal pixel art tapestry. Paint with friends over time, record generational brushstrokes, watch the creation time-lapse from inception, and export high-res artwork without paywalls.

#pixel#collaborative#infinite
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🐾 Pip: The Pocket Joy & Calming Companion

Meet Pip, your zero-maintenance procedural companion designed to bring instant comfort and warmth. Pet Pip to hear soothing purrs, drop delicious treats, play bouncy ball fetch, or slow down and co...

#pocket#pet#joy
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🧡 QuiltWeaver Tapestry

Weave an evolving mathematical patchwork tapestry with friends. Design geometric quilt blocks using wallpaper group symmetries, Truchet curves, and Islamic rosettes, then stitch them into a shared ...

#quilt#tapestry#geometric
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⛰️ Rain Shadow & Orographic Lift Lab

Push a parcel of air over a mountain and watch geography make weather. This lifts your air dry-adiabatically to the cloud base, integrates a proper saturated adiabat over the summit β€” the lapse rat...

#rain#shadow#orographic
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πŸͺ£ Rainwater Harvesting & Tank Simulator

Everyone sizes a water butt by guessing. This runs a day-by-day simulation of a whole year β€” rain falling on your roof, water drawn off, the tank filling, overflowing and running dry β€” then sweeps ...

#rainwater#harvest#tank
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🏞️ River Meander Lab

A free channel migrates by the Ikeda–Parker–Sawai law: banks erode on the outside of a bend and deposit on the inside. Raise discharge and the bends fatten; raise cohesion and they freeze. When a n...

#river#meander#lab
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πŸͺ¨ Rock Cycle & Mineral ID Lab

Two ways to learn geology hands-on: drive a rock through the full cycle (weather it, bury it, metamorphose it, melt it) with real pressure–temperature conditions and metamorphic facies, then play M...

#rock#cycle#mineral
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🏜️ Sand Dune Lab

A saltation cellular automaton of a sand sea. Wind above Bagnold's threshold picks up grains, slip faces (34Β°) trap them, vegetation anchors the sand, and supply + wind variability decide whether b...

#sand#dune#lab
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⏳ Sandpile Mandala

An emergent self-organized criticality simulator. Drop grains of sand into an abelian lattice. When cells exceed four grains, they topple into cascading avalanches, spontaneously forming hyper-comp...

#sandpile#fractal#mandala
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πŸ—“οΈ Shift Labour Cost Planner

Price a staffed shift including breaks, employer on-costs and overtime before publishing the rota. All calculations stay in your browser.

#shift#labour#cost
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❄️ Snowflake Crystal Lab

Grow an ice crystal from the real Nakaya diagram: temperature and supersaturation decide its habit β€” plates, needles, columns, sectored plates or fern-like dendrites. Vapour is consumed by the crys...

#snowflake#crystal#lab
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🐦 Starling Murmuration

Reynolds boids with the three forces starlings actually use: short-range separation, local alignment, and a weaker cohesion. Click to drop a hawk β€” the flock folds, splits and re-forms. The ribbon ...

#starling#murmuration#interactive
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πŸ”€ Syllable Counter

Heuristic English syllable count (vowel groups, silent e, -le, some -ed/-es). Good enough for haiku drafts and readability checks β€” not a dictionary.

#syllable#counter#interactive
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🧠 NeuroSynapse Graph

An organic neural graph where thoughts, insights, and memories connect via pulsating synaptic axons. Fire bio-electric action potentials, watch ideas resonate across clusters, and author collective...

#synapse#thought#constellation
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πŸŒͺ️ Tornado & EF-Scale Lab

Build a supercell in real time. CAPE (buoyant energy), 0–6 km wind shear, core radius and surface roughness control rotation, funnel formation, damage and the Enhanced Fujita rating β€” with the live...

#tornado#fujita#lab
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🌊 Tsunami Runup Simulator

A real 1D shallow-water wave solver (c = √gh, leapfrog scheme) running a subduction-zone tsunami from seafloor rupture to the coast. Watch the wave slow, shoal and amplify β€” Green's law emerges nat...

#tsunami#runup#simulator
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πŸŒ‹ Volcano Eruption Simulator

A living cross-section of a stratovolcano. Magma viscosity, dissolved gas, vent width and slope drive the real eruption style β€” Hawaiian fountains, Strombolian bursts or Plinian columns β€” with buoy...

#volcanic#eruption#simulator
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πŸ—Ώ VoxelMonolith 3D

An isometric 3D voxel monument sculpted across time. Place obsidian, glowing crystal, gold, and marble blocks layer by layer. Scrub the chronological time slider to watch historical construction fr...

#voxel#monolith#time
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πŸ”₯ Wildfire Behaviour Lab

A fuel-bed cellular automaton with Rothermel-style spread. Set wind, fuel moisture, fuel load and slope, then click the terrain to ignite. Watch the fire front, smoke column, ember spotting and the...

#wildfire#behaviour#lab
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