Tidal Reef (2D)

This 2D companion renders the Tidal Reef scene from directly overhead on a plain canvas: each point of the pillar grid is colored and sized by the same wave-field formula as the 3D version — a radial swell traveling outward from the reef center combined with a directional current running across the grid — so the same oscillation is visible as a flat, readable height map instead of an orbiting 3D mesh. Moving the pointer over the field injects a local tide pulse that ripples outward from that point, exactly like the 3D scene's tide interaction.