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randomness sources — drive each decision from seeded noise or from the digits themselves
Built with deep gratitude to Martin Krzywinski and Max Cooper — their transcendental tree map showed us how one rule can make a number feel alive. We built this toy to learn by living inside the construction.

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Martin Krzywinski's transcendental tree map. The first digit of π is 3 — so 3 vertical lines divide the canvas into 4 rectangles. Each rectangle is divided by the next digit (1, 4, 1, 5 horizontal lines), each of those by the next, alternating direction every level. Digit 0 leaves its rectangle untouched. Seven levels, 20,244 digits, growing like dividing cells. We built this to understand how one rule turns a sequence of numbers into something that looks alive — the idea and the mathematics are Martin Krzywinski's and Max Cooper's.

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