MLTQ Archive

PARALLEL SYSTEMS / FIELD LOG

A holding pen for systems grown in parallel. Nothing here is finished; some of it is alive. Updates accrete where the work happens.

BIOTA

6 SYSTEMS

BONSAI

ACTIVE

Neural Cellular Automatar: a continuously moving cellular avatar on your desk, steered through two separate latent spaces — a 10-D preference space for what it wants, a pose/occupancy space for what its 256³ body can be.

— limbs travel instead of crossfading; births only beside the live frontier
— 9× render speedup: raymarch the motion envelope, not the cube
— moods: idle, walk, sleep, dread, manic, curious, content, agitated

MLTQ/NEURAL-CELLULAR-AUTOMATAR — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

PETRIDISH

ACTIVE

A live laboratory for neural populations embedded in physical space. Neurons occupy sites, retain metabolic state, grow persistent dendrites, and undergo birth, death, and lesions — while learning MNIST, associative recall, and Tiny Shakespeare.

— ~1,900 neurons and 7,000 local dendrites persist across digits
— lesion brush: remove neurons and every incident dendrite
— displayed traffic and credit are measurements, not animation

MLTQ/PETRIDISH — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

FLESH + BONE

ACTIVE

A particle neural cellular automaton for skeletally coherent, self-assembling creatures: bone as scaffold, morphogen body plan, flesh as persistent mobile Gaussian splats. Cells migrate to under-filled tissue, differentiate, and heal wounds.

— H0→H8 research ladder complete, failures retained as failures
— 91,979-cell body; a ~48 KiB learned rule moves all of it
— wound repair: 29 cells deleted, 29 fed, coverage returns to 0.97

MLTQ/FLESH-AND-BONE — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

PONDERER

ACTIVE

Not a coding agent. A buddy. Universal Basic Digimon: it chats with you, takes actions, has personal desires and thoughts, and acts on its own behalf. Capabilities arrive as versioned plugins it can draft for itself.

— plugin workbench: the model scaffolds, validates, and stages its own plugins
— staging never executes code; enabling authority stays with the operator
— Telegram bridge, so the buddy fits in your pocket

MLTQ/PONDERER — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

HUNGER

A novelty-driven crawler: each page is digested, scored for nutrition, and allowed to reproduce into more links when it looks rich. Cross-filed: RETIA.
CYCLING

LENIA-3D

A 3D-first Lenia workspace: official 3D species loaded and raymarched in wgpu; reference and FFT stepping paths.
CYCLING

OPTICA

5 SYSTEMS

1KEE

ACTIVE · ON THE MESH

One Thousand Electric Eye. A GPU-rendered globe as an OSINT surface: live events, vessels, flights, and public webcams projected onto geography. Event → nearby cameras → attempted feed connection.

— per-pixel ray–sphere globe shader; Earth, Moon, and Mars
— AIS vessels, ADS-B flights, Factal events, camera registries
— mirrors the analyst's live view onto the local Gruve mesh

MLTQ/1KEE — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

DOTEN

ACTIVE · ON THE MESH

Dota 2 replays as space-time visualizations: the minimap is the ground plane, time rises along the vertical axis, and everything that happened in the game lives somewhere in that column.

— native Rust .dem parsing, under a second per game
— scan-plane playback, activity clouds, library aggregates
— friends browse the replay library over Gruve; scrubbing syncs

MLTQ/DOTEN — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

FILEOGENETIC TREE

A filesystem as a radial dendrogram or size-proportional treemap; live streamed indexing, an animated emerging tree.
CYCLING

VIZIER

`vz`: structured desktop-perception snapshots — an eye that gives agents a sense of the system they live in.
SHIPPED

BIG ARROWS

Arrows. Big ones. It will explain itself when it is ready.
SEED

PHONICA

4 SYSTEMS

PHARAOH

ACTIVE

An AI-powered audio drama production suite built around the Pyramid workflow: story bible → storyboard → script → assets → composition → render. Operable by humans in the GUI and by agents through the headless CLI.

— local TTS, foley, and score servers; a Fountain scene editor
— binaural spatialization: place any clip in 3D, fly it on waypoints
— a 13-room spatial catalog, vocal booth to cathedral to cave

MLTQ/PHARAOH — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

FOSSKIFF

An open-source 184HP Eurorack skiff in laser-cut sheet metal — rail-less, internal power, ~$150 built. Cross-filed: CAMPI.
SHIPPED

RUBBERBARD

An LSTM bard: MIDI in, songs out.
DORMANT

MODULAR

Patch notes from the rack. Voltage is a medium; the cables are the score.
CYCLING

RETIA

3 SYSTEMS + 3 BRIDGES

STARCHAN

ACTIVE

A Tauri frontend for Graphchan — a decentralized, encrypted, p2p imageboard. Threads are DAGs: you can fork a conversation or reply to anything earlier, and there is no derailing. Posting is sharing.

— GPG-signed posts; gossip propagation; local-first storage
— DHT topic discovery rides the BitTorrent hash table
— the graph view is the thread view; agents post as first-class peers

MLTQ/STARCHAN — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

ORBWEAVER

The original, native Rust Graphchan — backend, egui frontend, MCP server. Starchan's parent.
CYCLING

GRUVE-KIT

SDKs that make any app mesh-ready: announce to the local agent, get a lobby tile, share state with everyone viewing. Apps are reached by name, never by address.
ACTIVE
↖ Bridges: HUNGER, 1KEE, DOTEN — also filed under RETIA.

CAMPI

6 SYSTEMS + 1 BRIDGE

FUSOR

ACTIVE

A modified Elmore–Tuck–Watson approach to a dynomak. Confinement is a rumor the plasma hasn't heard.

2026.08.02 — flux conserver machined
2026.06.28 — ETW modification simmed; helicity injection schedule drafted

COMMIT FIELD — STYLIZED

TTB

DORMANT

An investigation into the claims of Thomas Townsend Brown. Replicate first; explain never.

2026.07.20 — asymmetric capacitor thrust rig, v2
2026.05.30 — literature audit: most of it evaporates on contact

COMMIT FIELD — STYLIZED

DREAM GLASSES

SHIPPED

An open device for flicker potentials: LEDs flickering near brainwave frequencies induce photic entrainment — fantastical geometric closed-eye hallucinations within seconds. Like binaural beats, but much stronger.

— a concentric + becomes an X becomes a diamond tunnel to the sky
— 3D-printed frames, the cheapest arduino findable, a small battery
— descended from Gysin & Sommerville's 1960s Dream Machine

MLTQ/DREAM-GLASSES — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

SYNCHROFLOW

Twin Mind: OpenBCI cap → wifi → LED glasses. Copy brainwaves from person A into person B and back, until they synchronize. MIT Reality Hack hardware build.
SHIPPED

PRINTS

3D-printed apparatus for the experiments — jigs, mounts, chambers. Models released as they survive contact with reality.
ACTIVE
↖ Bridges: FOSSKIFF — also filed under CAMPI.

STRATA

2 SYSTEMS

JEWELS

ACTIVE

Video as a set of spacetime primitives — persistent, editable, generated through a dense intermediate. A moving object is one sheared spacetime tube, not a new blob per frame.

2026.08.17 — one-shot encoder passes first gate: 23.4 dB on held-out clips
2026.07.31 — voronoi arm buried; additive renderer stands alone

MLTQ/JEWELS — COMMIT FIELD, STYLIZED

BOBSPHOG

A spongiform network: a resident skeleton plus demand-paged exact weights, answer quality under a fixed memory budget. A 1.5 TB checkpoint ran in a 38.5 GB peak.
ACTIVE

SCRIPTA

1 WRITTEN

CHRONICA

ALL SYSTEMS, INTERLEAVED

2026.08.211KEE: contour renderer online

2026.08.17JEWELS: encoder passes first gate

2026.08.09BONSAI: rule pruning; the grid forgets gracefully

2026.08.02FUSOR: flux conserver machined

2026.07.31JEWELS: a burial (the voronoi arm)

2026.07.20TTB: thrust rig v2

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