Model-driven simulation, curated parameter exploration. Personal project.
STUDY #01 · 2026-07
A visual study of an oscillating chemical reaction — one that refuses to settle, cycling instead through waves, spirals, and labyrinths.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #02 · 2026 · IN OBSERVATION
Seed, division, radial coral colony, labyrinth fill — the morphology of growth.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #03 · 2026 · IN OBSERVATION
Sand fleeing the antinodes and gathering on the nodal lines — standing waves made visible, drawn by matter.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #04 · 2026 · IN OBSERVATION
The same chemistry as Study #01 — split into many worlds by an invisible temperature landscape. Heat sets the pace.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #05 · 2026 · IN OBSERVATION
The first picture of chaos — three equations that never repeat, yet always fall onto the same two-winged shape. Drawn as a long exposure.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #06 · 2026 · IN OBSERVATION
Two waves cross; crest meets crest, or crest meets trough. From that one rule — superposition — come fringes, diffraction, and moiré.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #07 · 2026 · IN OBSERVATION
A crowd of oscillators, each at its own rate — and past a critical coupling, they fall into step on their own. Order with no conductor.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #08 · 2026 · IN OBSERVATION
A quenched mixture that can no longer stay mixed comes apart everywhere at once — then slowly coarsens, small domains dissolving into large.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #09 · 2026 · IN OBSERVATION
Particles wander in one at a time and freeze on first touch. Tips screen the interior, so the cluster branches into a self-similar frost.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #10 · FORTHCOMING
Simple local rules, complex global order — forthcoming.
Phenomena Studies is an online museum of physical phenomena — collected aesthetically and computationally. Each study pairs a model-driven simulation with curated parameter exploration: the model runs live, the parameters are swept, and every image is chosen by eye.
A personal visual research project by Satoshi N. One phenomenon at a time, observed until it holds a picture.