📚 Glossary

Plain-language definitions of 40+ terms from chaos theory, fluid dynamics, algorithms and generative art, each linked to a live interactive simulation. Every term below is written as a short, self-contained definition and links straight to a working simulation so you can see the concept, not just read about it.

46 terms so far — more added regularly.

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🐜 Ant Colony Optimization 🌳 Barnes-Hut Algorithm 🎯 Bézier Curve 🐦 Boids Algorithm 🌡️ Boltzmann Distribution 🔬 Brownian Motion 🦋 Butterfly Effect 🔲 Cellular Automaton 🧬 Cellular Genetic Algorithm 🔔 Central Limit Theorem 🦋 Chaos Theory 🧬 Conway's Game of Life △ Delaunay Triangulation ❄️ Diffusion-Limited Aggregation 🌀 Double Pendulum Chaos 🌪️ Entropy 💧 Fluid Viscosity 🎵 Fourier Transform 🔺 Fractal Dimension 🌌 Gravitational N-Body Simulation 🧲 Ising Model 🦾 Inverse Kinematics 📡 Kalman Filter 🌿 L-System 🦋 Lorenz Attractor 🌀 Mandelbrot Set 🎲 Markov Chain 🎲 Monte Carlo Method 🌠 N-Body Problem 💧 Navier–Stokes Equations 🔦 Path Tracing 🕸️ Percolation Threshold 🏔 Perlin Noise 🌡️ Phase Transition 🎛️ PID Controller 📊 Poisson Distribution 🔄 Quaternion Rotation 🧫 Reaction-Diffusion System 💨 Reynolds Number 🧮 Runge-Kutta Method ⛰️ Self-Organized Criticality 💧 SPH (Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics) 🌀 Strange Attractor 🧣 Verlet Integration 🔷 Voronoi Diagram ⚛️ Wave Function

📖 Extended reference glossaries

Need the full technical picture instead of a one-paragraph definition? These in-depth references cover dozens of related terms each:

Algorithms Glossary — Boids, Barnes-Hut, RK4, SPH, Verlet, SDF, A*, Cellular Automata and more Numerical Methods Glossary — ODE/PDE solvers, interpolation, error analysis, linear algebra CFD Glossary — Reynolds number, dimensionless numbers, DNS/LES/RANS, boundary conditions

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