simulation

An n×n grid of chaotic double pendulums, spring-coupled to their neighbours on a torus. One slider takes the system from independent chaos to global synchronization — watched live on a phase heatmap.

From a maze to the Müller–Brown surface with one cost function: Dijkstra and A* hunting the lowest route between two minima, with temperature deciding what ’lowest’ means.

A few hundred lines of physics: N particles, K species, one asymmetric interaction matrix. Break Newton’s third law and the system starts building things.