Shape a worldChoose Cerebra or a planet, bring it closer, and tune its colour, atmosphere and motion.
A self-organising instrument
A core that rebuilds itself while you watch.
Particles, rings and energy routes are recomputed every few seconds. Point at it and it leans toward you. Click it to open the layers; scroll to descend through them and out into the worlds it holds in orbit.
Layer four, the perimeter
An instrument that thinks in layers.
Cerebra is a planet that thinks. Under its glass skin a living mind fires like neurons, five nested layers deep, each one doing a different kind of thinking. It never settles: what you see is its state right now, not a loop.
- Layers
- Five
- Nodes
- 12,288
- Reconfigures every
- ~11 s
- Pre-rendered frames
- None
- Worlds in orbit
- Seven
- Vertices in orbit
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Layer three, the lattice
Four layers, four verbs.
The layers are separated here so you can see them. Hover a verb to light the layer that does it.
- Perceive
Reads its surroundings
Samples signal at its edge, including your cursor, and bends toward it.
- Infer
Locks onto patterns
When loose motion holds a shape long enough, it snaps into a lattice.
- Route
Holds worlds in orbit
Sends energy between distant nodes, and keeps seven worlds turning around it.
- Retain
Keeps state between rebuilds
The core never restarts from zero; each configuration inherits the last.
Layer two, the orbit
Seven worlds, held in orbit.
Each project is a world the core keeps turning. Scroll to travel between them, or pick one to land on it.
World 01 of seven
Aqua Foam
Ocean world, foam study
A water world where the whole surface is foam: teal troughs, white crests, and nothing calm anywhere.
World 02 of seven
Arcanum
Sigil world
Grey cloud cover scored with rings of orange sigils, like survey marks left behind on a moon.
World 03 of seven
Emerald Tide
Tidal world
Shallow green seas braided with bright tidal channels, under a thin drift of cloud.
World 04 of seven
Inferno
Molten world
A crust of cooling lava split by glowing seams, wrapped in its own layer of heat haze.
World 05 of seven
Nebula
Gas giant
Violet and cobalt bands folding into each other, cut by one bright jet stream across the face.
World 06 of seven
Terra Nova
Earthlike world
Continents, shallow seas and a separate cloud layer. The most ordinary world here, and the hardest to get right.
World 07 of seven
Tempest
Storm world
A deep blue ocean ringed by cyclone cells, with a second storm layer riding above the surface.
Layer one, memory
Unfinished on purpose.
Attractor choir
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Particles vote on a shared rhythm. Whatever they agree on becomes pitch.
Soft lattice
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A lattice that is allowed to forget. Paused while we work out how much.
Cursor as weather
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Your pointer is treated as a pressure front. You are part of this one right now.