IOTA  /  ocean studies  /  1 October 2026

The same arc, in water.

Four moving studies. Each runs thirty seconds: stranded, training, coherent, released. Every one is made of water or of things living in it, and in every one the final order is what the parts add up to. Open one to see it full screen.

01 Caustics

Sunlight on the sea floor. Out of step, the waves throw a loose net of light; in step, the net becomes a lattice.

02 Gyre

Nineteen stray eddies, turning either way, are turned one way and stand in a lattice that moves as one body.

03 Plankton

Shards adrift in a sunlit water column come home into one branching skeleton, each keeping its colour.

04 Bloom

A few cells far apart divide until they are one close-packed colony, seen through moving water. Simulated live.

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