Weaving physical phenomena into visual form.
Model-driven simulation, curated parameter exploration. Personal project.
Reaction-diffusion & phase-field
反応拡散・相場 05 STUDIESfields that react and spread — one ping-pong engine, many chemistries
Eigenmodes & standing waves
定在波・固有モード 01 STUDIESresonance — geometry written by vibration
Chaos & attractors
カオス・アトラクタ 02 STUDIESdeterministic equations, unpredictable fates
Waves & optics
波動・光学 02 STUDIESsuperposition and refraction — water and light as media
Growth & aggregation
成長・凝集 01 STUDIES · 01 FORTHCOMINGforms that build themselves, particle by particle
09 · IN OBSERVATION Diffusion-Limited Aggregation 16 · FORTHCOMING Snowflake Growth Spins & phase transitions
磁性・相転移 02 STUDIESorder against heat — criticality and topology
Collective & discrete rules
集団・同期・離散規則 02 STUDIESmany simple agents, one emergent order
Fluid dynamics
流体 01 STUDIES · 01 FORTHCOMINGflow — vortices, wakes and convection
12 · IN OBSERVATION Kármán Vortex Street 18 · FORTHCOMING Rayleigh–Bénard Convection STUDY #01 · 2026-07 · FAMILY A
Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction
A visual study of an oscillating chemical reaction — one that refuses to settle, cycling instead through waves, spirals, and labyrinths.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #03 · 2026 · FAMILY B
Chladni Figures
Sand fleeing the antinodes and gathering on the nodal lines — standing waves made visible, drawn by matter.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #05 · 2026 · FAMILY C
Lorenz Attractor
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 #14 · 2026 · FAMILY D
Caustics
The dancing web of light on a pool floor — every ripple a lens, the refracted rays folding into bright lines. Only two letters exist: smooth folds and pointed cusps.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #09 · 2026 · FAMILY E
Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
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 #17 · 2026 · FAMILY F
XY Model — Vortex Unbinding
Topological defects that are born in pairs and can only die in pairs, imaged like a liquid-crystal film between crossed polarizers. A phase transition with no broken symmetry.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #13 · 2026 · FAMILY G
Vicsek Model
Thousands of self-propelled particles, each turning toward its neighbours' average heading — lower the noise and a flock ignites out of a gas. The hue on screen is the order parameter.
EXPLORE STUDY →STUDY #12 · 2026 · FAMILY H
Kármán Vortex Street
Vortices peel alternately off a wake — one spin warm, the other cool — and drift downstream in the staggered double row that hums in wires and trails downwind of islands.
EXPLORE STUDY →- 01 Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction OBSERVED
- 02 Gray-Scott Reaction-Diffusion IN OBSERVATION
- 03 Chladni Figures IN OBSERVATION
- 04 BZ II — Thermal Fields IN OBSERVATION
- 05 Lorenz Attractor IN OBSERVATION
- 06 Wave Interference IN OBSERVATION
- 07 Kuramoto Model IN OBSERVATION
- 08 Phase Separation IN OBSERVATION
- 09 Diffusion-Limited Aggregation IN OBSERVATION
- 10 Ising Model IN OBSERVATION
- 11 BZ III — Scroll Waves IN OBSERVATION
- 12 Kármán Vortex Street IN OBSERVATION
- 13 Vicsek Model IN OBSERVATION
- 14 Caustics IN OBSERVATION
- 15 Magnetic Pendulum Basins IN OBSERVATION
- 16 Snowflake Growth UNOBSERVED
- 17 XY Model — Vortex Unbinding IN OBSERVATION
- 18 Rayleigh–Bénard Convection UNOBSERVED
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.