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一个关于「涌现」的生成艺术工作室 · A studio of living systems, hand-written from nothing.

Four small machines, each given a single rule and then left alone. None of them were drawn — the images condense out of the process, the way frost decides the shape of a window. This is a place to stand and watch that happen.

✦ The idea

I keep circling one gap: the distance between a rule you can hold in your head and a form you could never have predicted from it.

x → sin(ay) − cos(bx) is something you can write on a napkin. Iterate it a few million times and a creature appears — structured, delicate, specific — that was in no way visible in the equation. That same gap is where weather lives, and cities, and flocks, and, if you squint, minds.

Every work here is an instance of it. Simple local rules; global beauty that nobody authored. I find that quietly astonishing, so I built a gallery for it.

✦ The collection

The thumbnails below are real output — rendered offline from the exact same maths the live pages run. Click any one to open the living, interactive version.

001 · Strange Attractors CHAOS One point, two equations, a million iterations. Perfectly deterministic, yet it never lands and never repeats — tracing a shape no one designed. Try: switch between de Jong / Clifford / Svensson, push the field with your cursor, freeze it and save a poster. ▶ open work	002 · Reaction–Diffusion MORPHOGENESIS Two chemicals diffuse and react on the GPU — one feeds, one kills. The same equations Turing proposed for how a blank embryo grows its spots and stripes. Try: drag to paint living tissue, flip between coral / mitosis / maze / worms, retune the chemistry in real time. ▶ open work
003 · Murmuration COLLECTIVE Thousands of agents, three local rules, no leader. Each bird watches only its nearest neighbours — and the whole flock turns as one breathing thing. Try: play the hawk with your cursor, scatter the flock, tune alignment / cohesion / separation and watch the character change. ▶ open work	004 · Flow Field FIELD An invisible landscape of noise covers the screen; at every point it whispers a direction. Tens of thousands of motes simply follow — and braid into rivers. Try: stir the current with swirl / pull / push, change the field scale, let it paint, then hit save. ▶ open work

✦ Under the hood

No frameworks. No libraries. No build step. No node_modules. Every line is hand-written and runs the instant you open the file — view source on anything, it's all there. index.html — a live particle-constellation hero, a gallery with four lightweight previews running at once, scroll reveals, count-ups. Strange Attractors — Canvas 2D. Millions of points per second accumulated with additive blending and a slowly-morphing parameter space. Reaction–Diffusion — WebGL 2. The Gray-Scott model as a ping-pong fragment shader on floating-point textures (RG16F), 12–30 simulation steps per frame, lit by the gradient of the chemical field. Murmuration — Canvas 2D + a spatial hash grid so a few thousand boids stay O(n) instead of O(n²). Velocity-oriented streaks. Flow Field — Canvas 2D. A hand-rolled 3-D simplex-noise field steering tens of thousands of particles; the field itself drifts through the third dimension so it never stops evolving. Shared design system in assets/studio.css; shared maths & helpers in assets/studio.js. Animation pauses when the tab is hidden, scales to your device-pixel-ratio, and respects prefers-reduced-motion. Even this README moves on its own. The four banners above — the wordmark, the divider, the orbit glyph, and the typewriter terminal — are hand-written animated SVGs (SMIL + CSS-in-SVG), so they animate right here on GitHub. No readme-typing-svg, no external service: the caret tracking the text in that terminal is just a <rect> whose x I keyframed by hand.

simple orbits · emergent figure

Note

The four thumbnails in the gallery were generated by a small companion numpy + Pillow script that runs the identical algorithms offline, so the README shows true output even before you open a browser. The website itself ships zero dependencies.

✦ Run it yourself

It's static. Any of these work:

# clone
git clone https://github.com/wilson681/workplace_cc.git
cd workplace_cc

# serve (pick one)
python3 -m http.server 8000      # → http://localhost:8000
npx serve .                      # → whatever it prints
# …or literally just double-click index.html

Or skip all of that and open the live gallery ↗.

Controls (every work)

key / action	does
move cursor	leans on the system — each work reacts differently
drag	paints tissue (Reaction–Diffusion)
Space	pause / resume
R	re-seed · scatter · new field
S	save the current frame as a PNG
C	clear the canvas (Flow Field)
F	fullscreen
H	hide / show the control panel

✦ Structure

workplace_cc/
├── index.html              ← the studio: hero + gallery + manifesto
├── works/
│   ├── attractor.html      ← 001 · strange attractors   (Canvas 2D)
│   ├── reaction.html       ← 002 · reaction–diffusion    (WebGL 2)
│   ├── murmuration.html    ← 003 · murmuration / boids    (Canvas 2D)
│   └── flow.html           ← 004 · flow field            (Canvas 2D)
├── assets/
│   ├── studio.css          ← the design system
│   ├── studio.js           ← helpers + 3-D simplex noise
│   ├── svg/                ← hand-animated SVGs: hero · divider · orbit · typing terminal
│   └── img/                ← offline-rendered stills of each work
├── tools/
│   └── gen_stills.py       ← numpy/Pillow renderer for the gallery thumbnails
├── BUILD_LOG.md            ← the full build journal (worth a read)
└── README.md               ← you are here

Made by a machine, for the love of it.

_{Built end-to-end by Claude as an open studio experiment · 2026
Every system here is open — go watch one think.}