Studies / experiments

Research

Open a study. Change a variable.

Wing morph

Sources & limits

Actual browser captures open the interactive builds. Each experiment retains its controls, attribution and assumptions. These studies do not establish production capability, navigation readiness or field performance.

Wing morph: Procedural form study; source and method remain in the study.
Shutters: Four procedural reconstructions informed by Max Drekker’s work; these are independent interpretations.
Resonance: Reduced-order sand, liquid and phase models. Optional audio requires a gesture.
Light speed: Authored information-space metaphor with ideal vacuum segments and compressed distances. No observed traffic or navigation guarantee. Supersedes the earlier lattice study.
Event atlas: One synthetic event in four coordinate views. Spherical Earth and flat-spacetime assumptions are explicit.
Solar terrain: Synthetic terrain and solar geometry; this does not establish field accuracy.
Outflow: Independent illustrative material and focus-halo study.
Liquid lens: Reduced-order liquid response and illustrative refraction; no audio output.
Companion island: Simulated interaction states; no live personal context or connected service.
Position likelihood: Synthetic position hypotheses, not measured positioning performance.
State reuse: Analytical compute-cost assumptions, not measured speedups. Requests and local checks remain fixed.
Light to form: Procedural brand-motion reconstruction with a still final mark.

October source identities ↗ · Recovered source revisions ↗

Checks use mobile browser emulation. Physical iPhone and Safari acceptance remain open.

Living ASCII Separate publication · sign-in required

Investigations, methods & retained evidence

05 / Assure · OrbitTAMP

A route is a claim.

Keep the intent. Change the evidence. Inspect the decision.

Synthetic study

01 / Mission networkLocal frame · metres

CandidateRetained routeExcluded node

Offline valley4 m uncertaintyOffline permitted

02 / Active constraints

Mission uncertainty limit12 mValley uncertainty4 mAllow offline routePrefer

Retained route · 01

Bounds hold.

Retained route meets its original graph constraints.

Current candidate111.8 mMaximum uncertainty 4 m

Origin → Offline valley → Extraction

Discrete graph · supplied uncertainty · no vehicle control

Inspect intent, decisions and checks

One mission. Three states.

{
  "goal": "extraction",
  "max_uncertainty_m": 12,
  "avoid": [
    "hazard"
  ],
  "allow_offline": true,
  "priority": "distance",
  "command": "Navigate to extraction; uncertainty <= 12 m; avoid hazard; allow offline; prefer distance",
  "provenance": {
    "goal": "operator",
    "max_uncertainty_m": "operator",
    "avoid": "operator",
    "allow_offline": "operator",
    "priority": "operator"
  }
}

Omitted values stay unknown in M0. M1 records the origin of each resolved constraint.

Reproduce the behavior

Not run

Synthetic engineering checks. These results do not reproduce the paper’s benchmark or establish field performance.

Recorded Python checks ↗

Questions you can investigate

Let the evidence change the answer.

Real terrain / Reproducible local benchmark

What do we retain—and what does it cost?

Reproduce an Ojai / CA-33 terrain package. Inspect local lookup measurements, compare terrain fidelity against retained source data, and review deliberately injected failure cases.

USGS terrain, retained source bytes, explicit methods and runtime. Independent survey accuracy and field navigation remain unmeasured.

Inspect the benchmark and reproduce it ↗

Coastal model / Flow study

The Southern California coast, in motion

Explore ocean currents and water temperature from Ventura to San Diego. Inspect a coastal point and export the displayed values, source identity, and interpolation method.

27 September 2026 · 03:00 UTC · NOAA WCOFS surface nowcast. The river line and public landmarks provide mapped context; ocean currents remain a dated model.

Explore the currents ↗

01 · Decision research / The Honest Hold

When should a system say “I don’t know”?

Hold a baseline, change the modeled evidence condition, and compare the interval with a stated corridor boundary.

Synthetic illustration. This comparison does not establish false-clear rates, field coverage, or a validated hold policy.

Compare modeled conditions ↗

02 · Human computer interaction / Fog of Probability

See modeled uncertainty in space.

Switch between spatial and numerical views of the same synthetic state. Change evidence age and look-ahead distance.

Working synthetic instrument. Comparative participant findings remain open.

Explore the uncertainty views ↗

03 · Retained field study / Prospective Current Receipts

Review frozen predictions and later observations.

Review a dated study that freezes predictions before their targets and records eligible later observations, including evidence still missing.

FE-002 snapshot · 2026-09-19 · 21 frozen targets. This dated record is not live coverage or a performance ranking. Predictive performance remains inconclusive.

Review the retained study ↗

Evidence, dates and access

Identity: FE-002 / RSH-007. Retained prospective study, not a released Assure capability.
Snapshot: Reconciliation: 2026-09-19T00:01:03.349+00:00. This dated record is not current collection status.
Result and limits: Predictive performance remains inconclusive. No method ranking is supported. Missing observations remain missing; acquisition time is first seen by this instrument, not first publication by NOAA.
Attribution and access: Named contributor, license and maintainer are not supplied here. Raw-data access is unknown. Public summaries do not supply raw receipts or a reproducibility package.
Separate evidence: The 17 September 2026 field record and 2026-09-18 program register retain their own dates and counts. They are not this reconciliation.

17 September field record ↗
19 September status snapshot (JSON) ↗
18 September program register (JSON) ↗

04 · World Engine research

Inspect an ideal light-speed information volume.

Explore the recovered light-speed study: ideal vacuum-segment timing, an eight-light-second volume and an explicitly compressed display.

Authored information-space metaphor. No observed traffic, calibrated network performance, orbital model or navigation guarantee. Supersedes the earlier lattice study.

Open the light-speed study ↗

One place. Keep its evidence.

Trace a reference view to its source.

Choose a place, inspect a reference layer, then trace its time, source and limits.

Reference views have different dates and frames. Accuracy is not quantified by this view.

Choose a place ↗Open a capture ↗

Research → Intelligence → Systems

A finding opens the next question.

Research tests what a claim can support. Intelligence connects it to a useful investigation. Systems carries accepted understanding into working behavior, where new evidence can challenge it again.

Explore Intelligence ↗Read the research record ↗