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Chaos
Studies

Nine strange attractors. Spatial audio.
Mathematics you can touch.

Strange attractors are shapes that exist only in motion. Deterministic yet unpredictable, they never repeat and never escape. Chaos Studies lets you hold them in your hands — rotate, zoom, listen. Each one has its own geometry and temperament.

Direct Manipulation

Touch, Rotate, Explore

Swipe to turn the structure in space. Pinch to zoom in close or pull back to see the full form. Thousands of particles trace paths through a mathematical shape, leaving trails that fade over time. The system is deterministic — every point follows from what came before — yet the behaviour is impossible to predict.

Spatial Audio

Seven Stems in 3D Space

Seven music stems positioned around you — percussion in front, cello behind, drones below. Rotate the attractor and the soundscape rotates with it. A synthesiser tracks the particle through phase space, its tone tied to velocity. The sound isn't layered on top. It's part of the system. Headphones reveal the full effect.

No Goal

No Score. No Puzzle. No Goal.

Open it for thirty seconds between meetings or lose ten quiet minutes watching motion unfold. There is no progression, no unlock, nothing to optimise. Just mathematical forms, sound, and whatever you bring to them.

Playdate

Chaos with a Crank

On Panic's tiny yellow handheld, the crank controls rotation. 1-bit rendering strips the attractor back to pure form — black particles on a white field. Where the phone and Mac versions offer colour and sound, the Playdate version offers something rarer: physical, tactile connection to a mathematical system.

Screenshots

Dark and light modes across devices

Nine Attractors

Each comes from a different set of equations and produces a distinct geometry. Some feel calm. Others feel restless. Switching between them changes the mood instantly.