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Excitable

Excitable

Category: Simulations Tags: simulation, reaction-diffusion, spiral, organic, hypnotic, gpu, audio, glow

Reaction-diffusion excitable medium — Barkley/FitzHugh-Nagumo spiral and target waves crawl and rotate across a persistent chemical field, nucleating new spiral cores on the beat. Never settles, never loops.

Parameters

Kinetics

ParameterRangeDefaultUnit
Excitability0 – 10060%
Refractory0 – 10040%
Threshold0 – 10030%
Diffusion0 – 10050%

Look

ParameterRangeDefaultUnit
Brightness0 – 10070

Motion

ParameterRangeDefaultUnit
Wave Speed0 – 10050%

Audio

ParameterRangeDefaultUnit
Audio Spark0 – 10030%

Color (Front)

ParameterRangeDefaultUnit
Hue0 – 36028.8°
Saturation0 – 10090%
Brightness0 – 100100%

Color (Wake)

ParameterRangeDefaultUnit
Hue0 – 360198°
Saturation0 – 10085%
Brightness0 – 10060%

Background

ParameterRangeDefaultUnit
Hue0 – 360223.2°
Saturation0 – 10070%
Brightness0 – 1003%
Background Opacity0 – 100100%

Transform (universal)

These parameters are available on all sources.

ParameterRangeDefaultUnit
Position X-100 – 1000
Position Y-100 – 1000
Rotation-180 – 1800°
Scale0 – 200100%
Zoom0 – 200100%