The lab
The commons, working
Non verbis sed rebus — not by words but by things. The homepage claims our software coordinates the way a termite colony does: no messages, no central control — each agent reads a shared substrate and leaves it slightly changed. This page is that claim, running. The creatures below are autonomous agents; the trails are the substrate; the number Ψ measures how far the colony has drifted from coordination. Nothing is scripted, and nothing leaves this page — the simulation runs entirely in your browser.
You have reduced motion enabled, so the live simulations on this page are paused.
The Ψ overlay
No leader, no messages, no central plan — each agent reads the trails the others left and leaves its own. The coordination you see emerges from the shared surface. That is stigmergy, and it is how a commons works.
The agents are roaming this page now. Use the floating Ψ panel to change their coupling and watch coordination rise and fall.
The pheromone sandbox
Try it: paint a trail and watch the agents find it, reinforce it, and abandon it when it stops paying. The Ψ readout tracks the colony as you intervene — you are the operator now.