labs.json

{
  "featured": [
    {
      "icon": "PL",
      "title": "Pentagonal Lattice Geometry",
      "href": "experiments/Pentagon_Lattice_Geometry/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/Pentagon_Lattice_Geometry/README.md",
      "video": "videos/Pentagon_Lattice_Geometry.mp4",
      "launchLabel": "Open the Pentagonal Lattice Geometry lab",
      "pitch": "A multi-sheeted covering construction in which the regular pentagon develops fractional dimension (d ≈ 2.37) and spinor-like holonomy — a discrete model where a single loop requires two passes to return to identity."
    },
    {
      "icon": "GE",
      "title": "Geometric Entropy",
      "href": "experiments/geometric-entropy/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/geometric-entropy/README.md",
      "video": "videos/Geometric_Entropy.mp4",
      "pitch": "A continuous analogue of the Erdős distinct-distance problem. Points on a manifold are arranged to extremize the Shannon entropy of their pairwise-distance distribution."
    },
    {
      "icon": "CA",
      "title": "Layered Cellular Automata",
      "href": "experiments/layered_ca/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/layered_ca/README.md",
      "video": "videos/Binary_Coded_Layered_Autonoma.mp4",
      "pitch": "Langton's ants write a colored substrate that gates where Conway's Life is allowed to live. Three feedback layers — ants → substrate → life → substrate → ants — produce highways, colonies, and fractal boundaries. For a playable take on Conway's Life and 50+ other rulesets, see the sister site <a href=\"https://aol.cognotik.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Arcade of Life ↗</a>."
    },
    {
      "icon": "SK",
      "title": "Spacelike Knots",
      "href": "experiments/spacelike-knots/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/spacelike-knots/README.md",
      "video": "videos/Spacelike_Knots.mp4",
      "pitch": "A knot equipped with a Minkowski metric, turning crossings into causal inversions. The distance matrix becomes a causal diagram: timelike, spacelike, and null separations color-coded across the whole knot."
    },
    {
      "icon": "SY",
      "title": "Space-Color Symmetry",
      "href": "experiments/symmetry_simple/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/symmetry_simple/README.md",
      "video": "videos/Symmetry_Diffusion.mp4",
      "pitch": "A pixel canvas where symmetry doesn't just mirror your strokes — it rewires the diffusion graph. Heat flows along symmetry orbits, producing kaleidoscope dynamics on a quotient-like manifold."
    },
    {
      "icon": "IL",
      "title": "Irrational Lattice",
      "href": "experiments/irrational_lattice/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/irrational_lattice/README.md",
      "video": "videos/Irrational_Lattice.mp4",
      "pitch": "A new primitive: deterministic, algebraic “colored noise” for lattices. Coordinates in ℚ(√D) deform ℤᵈ and snap back via a nearest-lattice map — provably aperiodic, spectrally tunable, integer-arithmetic clean."
    },
    {
      "icon": "GR",
      "title": "Relativistic 2-Body Gravity",
      "href": "experiments/gravity/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/gravity/README.md",
      "video": "videos/Relativistic_Gravity.mp4",
      "launchLabel": "Open the Relativistic 2-Body Gravity lab",
      "pitch": "A 2-body gravitational system with relativistic adjustments and time-delayed (retarded) interactions. Gravity propagates at finite speed c, breaking Newton's third law and producing orbital precession, frame-dragging analogues, and chaotic orbits."
    },
    {
      "icon": "WS",
      "title": "Predictive Markov Wordsearch",
      "href": "experiments/wordsearch/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/wordsearch/README.md",
      "video": "videos/wordsearch.mp4",
      "launchLabel": "Open the Predictive Markov Wordsearch lab",
      "pitch": "A wordsearch generator where the filler letters aren't random — a character-level Markov model trained on reference text predicts plausible language fragments in all eight reading directions, camouflaging hidden words by matching the statistical texture of natural language."
    },
    {
      "icon": "FL",
      "title": "Fractal Learning",
      "href": "experiments/fractal_learning/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/fractal_learning/idea.md",
      "pitch": "Inverse iterated-function-system fitting: gradient-optimize a small alphabet of affine maps so the depth-N orbit of the origin matches a target point cloud under a Chamfer metric."
    },
    {
      "icon": "3L",
      "title": "No-Three-in-Line Explorer",
      "href": "experiments/3inline/index.html",
      "readme": "experiments/3inline/README.md",
      "launchLabel": "Open the No-Three-in-Line Explorer lab",
      "pitch": "An interactive laboratory for the classic no-three-in-line problem: place ~2n points on an n×n grid so no three are collinear along any rational slope. Solve it by hand with instant collinearity feedback, or watch an entropic simulated-annealing solver with parabola warm starts, sublattice mutations, and a tabu list search for dense configurations — all powered by an incremental line index for fast O(k) move checks."
    }
  ],
  "essays": [],
  "demos": []
}