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Triboluminescent Candy Glow — 2D Grain-Fracture Side View

Side-view 2D model of triboluminescence: drag the top jaw down to compress a wintergreen-candy tablet, watch stress concentrate at individual sugar grains until one fractures, and see real dielectric-breakdown flashes fire only when separated charge survives ambient-humidity leakage.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryPhysics & Mechanics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders for bite/crush force, crystal asymmetry, jaw closing speed, ambient humidity, and room darkness; drag the top jaw directly to compress the tablet (pointer speed sets the real strain rate), drag elsewhere to pan and scroll to zoom, a Crush! button for a one-shot compression, and a New candy button to rebuild the grain mosaic and reset counters.

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A side-on, per-grain model of the same real triboluminescence: a wintergreen-candy tablet compresses between two jaws, individual sugar-crystal grains fracture under Hooke's-law stress that concentrates near existing cracks, and each fracture separates charge that only produces a visible discharge once it survives humidity leakage and crosses air's dielectric-breakdown field. This is a genuinely different mechanic from the 3D cross-section version — a granular, stress-concentration model rather than a single branching crack tree — built around the same measured physics.

⚙ Under the hood

Drag a jaw to compress a candy tablet's sugar-grain mosaic in side view, cracking individual grains under Hooke's-law stress until a surviving charge crosses air's breakdown field and flashes.

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