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look
one color per digit (0–9), from the author's own legend · leaves, flowers, and colored branches all use this palette
number
each 9 ends a tree · up to 21,000 digits
forest
6
variation
each tree's jitter comes from its own digit-seeded generator · ecosystems add their own presets on top
drawing
animation
0 grows the whole forest at once · 1 grows one tree at a time · each branch starts the moment its parent reaches the fork
advanced
digit-seeded variation channels — toggle each off to remove that source of jitter
Built with deep gratitude to Martin Krzywinski — his π Day 2021 art “Good things grow for those who wait” gave us the rules, the palette, and the wonder. We built this toy to learn by living inside the math.

forest

Martin Krzywinski's Pi Day 2021 forest. Each tree reads digits of π until it hits a 9: every digit splits the canopy by its own branching rule and drops a leaf disc in that digit's color, so the digits stay readable left to right. The 9 ends the tree with a flower — petals colored by the digit before it, center by the next tree's first digit. The first 768 digits end at the Feynman point, 999999: five flowers sitting on the ground. All the wobble comes from a random-number generator built from each tree's own digits. We built this to feel how those rules work from the inside — the math and the vision are entirely Martin's.

keyboard
play / pauseSpace
scrub ±10 s · also drag or scroll on the canvas← →
speed up / down↑ ↓
restartR
settings panelG
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