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🧬 Social Structure Network (3D)

A real 3D force-directed social network: individuals as spring-connected nodes whose layout — hierarchy, network or community — and status spread respond to cohesion, inequality, mobility and conflict intensity, with the same stability formula as the 2D original.

Physics & Mechanics3DModerate60 FPS⇄ 2D version

Details

CategoryPhysics & Mechanics

RenderingThree.js · WebGL

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders for cohesion, inequality, mobility and conflict intensity, plus a structure selector (hierarchy / network / community); a reshuffle-group button re-randomizes status assignments and a reset-camera button restores the default view; drag the scene to orbit the camera around the 3D social network, scroll or pinch to zoom.

Social StructuresGroup Dynamics3DWebGLThree.jsForce-Directed

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⚙ Under the hood

A real 3D force-directed social network replacing the 2D original's single orbiting dot: forty individuals are spring-connected nodes whose layout — a layered hierarchy, a random peer network, or clustered communities — self-organizes under real spring and repulsion forces. Cohesion sets bond stiffness, inequality skews the status distribution and layer spacing, mobility drives genuine stochastic status/group-change events, and conflict intensity injects repulsion and jitter that visibly fragments the structure. Stability uses the exact same formula as the 2D original: max(0, cohesion - mobility*0.5 - conflict*0.4).

Social StructuresGroup Dynamics3DWebGLThree.jsForce-Directed

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install