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SCN Phase Circle & Synchrogram (2D)

Interactive 2D Kuramoto phase-circle and scrolling synchrogram of the suprachiasmatic nucleus: watch thousands of independent circadian oscillators phase-lock as VIP/GABA-style coupling strength rises, with a live order-parameter vector and a raster history of every neuron's phase over time.

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This 2D companion to the SCN Neuron Synchronization simulator strips away the anatomical rendering and shows the exact same Kuramoto coupled-oscillator system through the two views the mathematics itself is written in: every neuron's phase θi plotted as a point on the unit circle it lives on, with the population's own complex order parameter drawn as a vector from the center; and a scrolling raster of every sampled neuron's phase across time, the actogram-style readout circadian biologists actually use. Coupling strength K, period spread σ and simulated speed drive the identical mean-field update rule as the 3D scene, so a light pulse still sharpens the cluster toward subjective dawn and a lesion scramble still resets it to incoherence — just visualized as pure phase-space geometry instead of a rotating cloud of cells.

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A 2D Kuramoto phase-circle and scrolling synchrogram of the suprachiasmatic nucleus: thousands of independent circadian oscillators plotted as points on the unit circle phase-lock as VIP/GABA-style coupling K rises, with a live order-parameter vector and a raster history of every sampled neuron's phase over time.

circadian rhythmsuprachiasmatic nucleusKuramoto modelneurosciencecell biologysynchronizationphase space2D

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

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