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SAHIL TAYAL ↖ SAHILVERSE HOME · W—0000
AN UNFINISHED UNIVERSE, No. 01

the weather
of almost.

A world made from the distance between what we imagine and what becomes. Nothing here is a recording. Not even the future.

Touch is a decision

Move your hand. The world remembers where you have been.

SCIENTIFICALLY INSPIRED MATHEMATICS. ARTISTICALLY INVENTED UNIVERSE.
NO ACCOUNT · NO CLOUD AI · NOTHING TO INSTALL
SAHILVERSE / EXPERIMENT 001

The Weather
of Almost.

What happens when a small intention enters a world that has rules of its own?

This is a playable, living artwork by Sahil Tayal — inspired by ideas of becoming, agency and the distance between imagining something and making it real. It is not a traditional website, a game you can win, or a scientific model of human behaviour. What you see is generated live in your browser.

What to expect inside
01 / TouchDraw with your finger or mouse. The material grows and changes in response.
02 / InterfereSwitch between three laws of nature. Try Pulse, Echo, or a new world.
03 / ListenTurn on optional sound, watch patterns emerge, or save a moment.
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No sign-in. No downloads. No right way to play.
Sound is off until you choose to enable it.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AN IMPOSSIBLE PLACE

You are the
weather.

There is no puzzle to win. The material is never finished, and your gestures become part of its evolution.

  1. Touch, draw or swipe to introduce new material. The chemistry grows according to its own rules.
  2. Hold Shift while drawing (or use a right-click on desktop) to unmake a patch instead.
  3. Change the law on the right. The same world develops differently under Becoming, Wandering and Collision.
  4. Pulse sends an outward ring of disturbance. Echo takes your last gesture and replays it in a mirrored form.
  5. Enable sound to hear original synthesised tones respond to your actions. No audio files are downloaded. Film captures an eight-second moving artwork on supported browsers.

Keyboard: 1–3 change laws · Space pauses · M toggles sound · P pulses · E echoes · R creates new weather · S saves · V films · H hides the interface · Esc restores it.

The image is generated by a Gray–Scott reaction–diffusion field coupled artistically to a damped wave simulation, both computed on the graphics processor when supported (using float textures or a packed 16-bit state). The interaction is a poetic interpretation of becoming and agency, not a validated psychological model.

An independent experiment by Sahil Tayal. Discover the essays, interactive worlds and other projects in the larger Sahilverse ↗.