Speculative geometry systems
Counterspace Field Laboratory
Three.js · Vector fields · Interactive simulation
A speculative geometry sandbox where signed emitters blend Spatial, Counterspatial, Circular, and Radial operators until particles settle into inspectable form. Deterministic, shareable, and deliberately not a model of electromagnetism.
A chamber for invented fields
Counterspace Field Laboratory is an interactive three-dimensional field-composition instrument. Visitors place up to eight signed emitters, orient their axes, and blend four documented operators — Spatial, Counterspatial, Circular, and Radial — while a fixed-step particle simulation searches for persistent geometry.
Success is a memorable equilibrium event: a torus, shell, or axial candidate whose seed and configuration can be reproduced and shared. The laboratory explores invented vector fields inspired by geometric diagrams. It is an art-and-mathematics simulation, not a model of real electromagnetism.
Laboratory compositions
Interactive experience
Enter the laboratory
Launch the fullscreen instrument to balance emitters, inspect stability metrics, and share field states.
How it is built
The simulation core stays framework-neutral: a CPU backend, fixed-step loop, finite-core forces, and schema-versioned share state. The portfolio packages that vanilla Three.js laboratory as @thrun-design/counterspace and mounts it on /lab/counterspace so the case study launches the same instrument.
Presets — Twin Orbit, Pressure Vessel, and Axial Engine — seed deterministic initial conditions. Low Sensory mode suppresses equilibrium choreography. Share URLs encode bounded emitter and field parameters without serializing GPU resources.
Credits
- Design & engineering
- Thrun Design Co.
- Stack
- TypeScript · Three.js · Vite-origin laboratory