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Sifaka Sideways Leap Lab (2D)

A top-down canvas model of sifaka lemurs crossing dry-forest gaps in rhythmic sideways leaps, where each animal's leap phase is a Kuramoto-coupled oscillator that locks into a shared troop rhythm as coordination rises.

Animals & Their World2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion swaps the 3D scene's decorative forest for a plain canvas view built around the actual mechanic implied by the title: each sifaka's leap is a phase oscillator, and the "Coordination" slider sets the coupling strength in a Kuramoto mean-field model, so raising it visibly locks the troop's leaps into a shared rhythm instead of leaving them randomly out of step.

⚙ Under the hood

Sifaka leap phases evolve as coupled Kuramoto oscillators; wider tree gaps lengthen each leap and slow its cadence, while higher coordination raises the coupling term that pulls every animal's phase toward the troop's mean phase.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install