Lab

The models behind the film.

Everything here runs in your browser, with the equations and assumptions stated. Drag the reducer to orbit it; every 24 seconds it opens up and shows the load on each roller.

Solvers

Fluid, structure, signal.

Three scenes, one stage. Each is a real solver with a slider you can move; the numbers are checked against textbook results, and they say so on screen.

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Kármán vortex street

f_k(x+e_k, t+1) − f_k = −(f_k − f_k^eq)/τ · D2Q9

Lattice Boltzmann flow past a cylinder. Below Re ≈ 47 the wake is steady; above it, vortices shed alternately. The colour is vorticity, nothing is drawn by hand.

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Research

Where hardware loses weeks.

Sixteen interviews with people who design electronics, mechanics and optics, September 2026. Three things kept coming back. Quotes are paraphrased and anonymised; the full write-up follows once the people we spoke to have agreed.

Libraries

Half an hour per footprint, drawn by hand, then fixed again to the house standard. Three days of a three-week project.

Documentation

Thirty-three thousand pages that don't match the silicon revision. The code works and the documentation doesn't.

Verification

No tool for signal integrity, one bench for two engineers, and the truth arrives with the board three weeks later.

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