From Any Point - Tessellation Signal Propagation

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General

Tessellation [ ]

The tiling — and the wiring. Each shape decides who neighbors whom, and that decides which patterns can form.

Tile Size 48

Volume 30

Propagation Speed 100%

How fast a triggered signal hops from one tile to the next.

Signal Decay 85

How likely a signal is to keep spreading rather than fizzle — lower for sparse taps, higher for full cascades.

Propagation Mode

How a touch behaves. Default / Cascade / Wave ripple outward from where you point; Resonance turns every tile into an oscillator so the whole tiling plays itself.

Theme

Resonance

Active when Propagation Mode is "Resonance" — the tiling plays itself.

Dynamics

Oscillatory: every tile keeps its own beat and they sync into a pulse. Excitable: tiles rest until a neighbor wakes them, sending a wavefront.

Pitch

How a tile picks its note. Rhythm: faster tiles sing higher, so synced regions sound related. Coherence: in-sync tiles converge toward a chord.

Coupling 1.2

How hard each tile listens to its neighbors. Low: an independent shimmer. Past a threshold the tiling snaps into a collective pulse.

Frequency Spread 0.6

How different the tiles' natural beats are. Zero = identical (what a chimera needs); higher = more disagreement to overcome.

Phase Lag 0

A built-in disagreement in the coupling. Small nudges make traveling waves and spirals; push it near the top for turbulence.

Coupling Range 0

How far each tile reaches. Local (0) gives waves; a middle reach is where chimeras live — a synced arm around a chaotic core. (Try the Chimera preset, then click to place it.)

Coherence View

Recolor every tile by how in-sync its neighborhood is — bright where it's locked, dark where it's chaos. Turn it on to see a chimera.

Sound

Scale

The set of notes everything is tuned to.

Trigger Mode

What a single activation plays — one note, a quick arpeggio, a little melody, or a chord.

Reverb 20

Sound Mix

Blend different sounds across the tessellation

Chime 100

Bell 0

Pluck 0

Pad 0

Glass 0

Percussion 0

Presets

One-click configurations

Keyboard Shortcuts

SpaceTrigger focused tile or a random ready tile EnterTrigger focused ready tile only Arrow KeysNavigate tiles FToggle fullscreen RStart / stop recording SSave screenshot PToggle FPS counter [ / ]Cycle tessellation EscClose panel / overlay ?Toggle this help

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From Any Point — how it works

This whole piece runs on one idea: order out of coupling, with nobody in charge. Touch it anywhere — from any point — and the same living texture condenses out. There's no special starting place and no conductor; the pattern organizes itself.

What's happening

Each tile is a tiny oscillator that nudges its neighbors — the way fireflies flash in time, heart cells beat together, or metronomes on a shared table fall into step. Left alone they drift; coupled, they find synchrony, traveling waves, and — at the edge — chimeras, where order and chaos coexist on the same surface.

Start here

Move your mouse or tap — watch signals cascade through the tiles.
Open Settings (the gear) → Propagation Mode → Resonance. Now the tiling plays itself.
Raise Coupling and watch the chaos lock into a collective pulse.
Load the Chimera preset, then click anywhere to plant a spiral's core. Toggle Coherence View to watch a synced arm wrap a chaotic center.

Going deeper

The math underneath is the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators (1975); the coexisting-order-and-chaos states are chimeras (2002). For the whole story — Huygens' clocks, fireflies, the Millennium Bridge — with live, playable simulators, open the Sync Lab notebook. Same equation everywhere: order from coupling, from any point.

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