https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/ Behind-the-scenes devlogs, new simulation announcements and WebGL tips from the 3D Simulations project. en hello@mysimulator.uk (3D Simulations) hello@mysimulator.uk (3D Simulations) 3D Simulations 1440 https://www.mysimulator.uk/shared/og-image.png https://www.mysimulator.uk/ https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/announce-wave-105.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/announce-wave-105.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Announce The biggest wave since Wave 103: 29 new Canvas 2D simulations. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-98-visual-system-icons.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-98-visual-system-icons.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Devlog How we designed the 91-symbol SVG sprite system, the gen-previews.mjs Puppeteer pipeline for OG images, seeds.json for AI image generation, and why we chose custom SVG paths over icon libraries. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-99-wave-105-simulations.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-99-wave-105-simulations.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Devlog Wave 105 adds 29 Canvas 2D simulations: Abelian sandpile, Penrose tiling, Bose-Einstein condensate, Josephson junction, spin glass, Apollonius gasket and the Shepard tone illusion. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-66-condensed-matter.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-66-condensed-matter.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Spotlight Explore the richest condensed matter collection: Ising phase transition, Bose-Einstein condensate, Josephson junction, spin glass frustration and topological edge states. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-67-materials-science.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-67-materials-science.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Spotlight From edge dislocation glide to binary alloy phase diagrams to grain growth — interactive simulations for materials engineers and scientists. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-68-generative-art-math.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-68-generative-art-math.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Spotlight Pure mathematics turned into visual art: Penrose tiling deflation, Apollonius gasket, hypotrochoid spirographs and continued fractions. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-69-orbital-mechanics.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-69-orbital-mechanics.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Spotlight Restricted three-body problem in the rotating frame, all five Lagrange equilibria, Roche lobes and zero-velocity curves. Real examples: JWST at L2, Trojans at L4/L5. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-70-sound-perception.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-70-sound-perception.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Spotlight Additive synthesis and the harmonic series, the Shepard-Risset infinite glissando illusion, and how the brain constructs pitch from spectral patterns. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-40-self-organised-criticality.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-40-self-organised-criticality.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Learning From sandpile avalanches to neural firing and earthquakes: how natural systems self-tune to a critical point, producing power-law behaviour. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-41-quantum-condensed-matter.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-41-quantum-condensed-matter.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Learning BCS superconductivity, the Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensation and topological insulators — the quantum origins of macroscopic phenomena. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-42-network-science.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-42-network-science.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Learning Erdos-Renyi random graphs, the giant component phase transition, percolation thresholds, and applications to epidemics and internet resilience. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-43-optimisation-methods.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-43-optimisation-methods.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Learning Why vanilla SGD gets stuck; how momentum accelerates through flat regions; how RMSprop adapts per dimension; why Adam combines the best of both. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-44-robot-kinematics.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/learning-44-robot-kinematics.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Learning Forward kinematics with Denavit-Hartenberg parameters, inverse kinematics via the Jacobian transpose, singularity avoidance and joint limits. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/tip-canvas-2d-performance.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/tip-canvas-2d-performance.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Tip Swap fillRect loops for direct ImageData pixel manipulation, use Float32Array particle buffers, and implement dirty-rectangle partial redraws. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/tip-web-audio-physics.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/tip-web-audio-physics.html Tue, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Tip Schedule OscillatorNodes at precise frame times, connect an AnalyserNode for a real-time spectrogram, and sync animation with the audio clock. https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-97-wave-103-june-2026.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-97-wave-103-june-2026.html Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Devlog Acoustics Geology Palaeontology https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-95-applied-science-batch-relativity-optics-ml-climate-engineering.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-95-applied-science-batch-relativity-optics-ml-climate-engineering.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Devlog Applied Science https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-63-applied-science-engineering-medicine-agriculture.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/spotlight-63-applied-science-engineering-medicine-agriculture.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000 Spotlight Applied Science https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-94-wave73-mandelbulb-menger-sponge-wormhole-3d-supershape-gpgpu-particles.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-94-wave73-mandelbulb-menger-sponge-wormhole-3d-supershape-gpgpu-particles.html Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Devlog WebGL GLSL https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-93-wave72-kalman-filter-backpropagation-pendulum-3d-eutrophication-acoustic-lens-planetary-rings.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-93-wave72-kalman-filter-backpropagation-pendulum-3d-eutrophication-acoustic-lens-planetary-rings.html Fri, 29 May 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Devlog Algorithms Quantum https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-89-wave68-barnes-hut-marching-squares-poisson-disk-bell-inequality-chua-circuit-pedestrian-crowd.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-89-wave68-barnes-hut-marching-squares-poisson-disk-bell-inequality-chua-circuit-pedestrian-crowd.html Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Devlog Algorithms Chaos https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-88-wave67-logistic-map-moire-pattern-delaunay-triangulation-traffic-jam-quadtree-tides.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-88-wave67-logistic-map-moire-pattern-delaunay-triangulation-traffic-jam-quadtree-tides.html Fri, 29 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Devlog Milestone Algorithms https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-87-wave66-fourier-epicycles-magnetic-pendulum-surface-wetting-gear-train-knapsack-huffman.html https://www.mysimulator.uk/blog/devlog-87-wave66-fourier-epicycles-magnetic-pendulum-surface-wetting-gear-train-knapsack-huffman.html Fri, 29 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Devlog 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