AETHER — Mathematical & Chromatic Atelier
A single-page interactive atelier: a cosine-palette synthesizer driving a Clifford strange-attractor visualizer, Albers simultaneous-contrast studies, and a written codex on the mathematics of generative beauty.
On this page
An interactive, self-contained page that treats colour as a mathematical object: synthesise a palette from trigonometry, then watch the same palette run through chaos systems, phyllotaxis and reaction–diffusion. Everything on the page is generated in the browser — no images, no server, no build step.
Read it#
Open the atelier — the full interactive page, running as-is.
What is inside#
- Spectral cosine synthesizer — the Inigo Quilez palette model,
C(t) = a + b · cos(2π(c · t + d)), with randomisable wave vectors, a live RGB interference plot, and CSS/GLSL export of whatever palette you land on. - Curated palettes and chord geometry — golden-angle (137.5°), triadic (120°), split-complementary (150°), tetradic (90°) and analogous (30°) hue chords, applied to the active visualiser.
- Albers simultaneous contrast — nested colour fields that demonstrate how surrounding luminance shifts what a swatch appears to be.
- Clifford strange attractor — Pickover’s phase-space folding,
x′ = sin(a·y) + c·cos(a·x),y′ = sin(b·x) + d·cos(b·y), rendered with adjustable trail persistence, chromatic cycle speed, parameter morphing and orbit/zoom controls. - A codex on generative beauty — short chapters on strange attractors and bifurcation, phyllotaxis and harmonographs, Turing reaction–diffusion and Chladni nodal lines, and spectral cosine synthesis.
Notes#
- The page is a static HTML file served straight from the site:
static/aether-atelier/index.html. Palette changes propagate into the visualisers within the page; it stores nothing and sends nothing anywhere except its CDN/font/icon requests. - Built with Tailwind (CDN), Cormorant Garamond / Plus Jakarta Sans / JetBrains Mono, and Phosphor icons. Dark-first.
- Kept byte-identical to the authored file so the demos keep their exact timing and defaults; edits go to the source artefact, not the copy.