Reaction-diffusion · mercury-3
Output generated Cost / run $0.0362 Runtime 137.6s
Prompt for this run
Build a Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion simulation on a canvas. Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as needed. Write it to `index.html` in the current working directory using your file tools. Inline your own CSS and JavaScript. Do not use external assets, CDNs, or network requests. No third-party libraries are provided. Required behavior: - Maintain two chemical concentration fields, U and V, with diffusion and the Gray-Scott reaction, feed, and removal terms. Evolve these fields rather than displaying a prerecorded pattern. - Use a square simulation grid with wrapping boundaries. Choose stable time and spatial steps with parameters Du = 0.16, Dv = 0.08, feed = 0.035, and kill = 0.062 in simulation units. - Initially fill the field with U = 1 and V = 0, then seed a small central region with V and reduced U. Map concentrations to contrasting colors so evolving organic patterns are visible. - Clicking or dragging adds V and reduces U near the pointer. Provide Pause/Resume and Reset; Reset restores the initial fields and seed. - Choose Canvas 2D or WebGL, and bound grid resolution and work per frame to keep interaction responsive. Verify: Sample early field evolution, then seed a separate region with the pointer. Check that the added region affects the following frames. Pause and resume, then reset and compare the restored central seed with the initial scene.
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A single self-contained HTML file — copy it and open in any browser, or reuse the prompt with your own pi-agent run.
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Build a Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion simulation on a canvas. Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as needed. Write it to `index.html` in the current working directory using your file tools. Inline your own CSS and JavaScript. Do not use external assets, CDNs, or network requests. No third-party libraries are provided. Required behavior: - Maintain two chemical concentration fields, U and V, with diffusion and the Gray-Scott reaction, feed, and removal terms. Evolve these fields rather than displaying a prerecorded pattern. - Use a square simulation grid with wrapping boundaries. Choose stable time and spatial steps with parameters Du = 0.16, Dv = 0.08, feed = 0.035, and kill = 0.062 in simulation units. - Initially fill the field with U = 1 and V = 0, then seed a small central region with V and reduced U. Map concentrations to contrasting colors so evolving organic patterns are visible. - Clicking or dragging adds V and reduces U near the pointer. Provide Pause/Resume and Reset; Reset restores the initial fields and seed. - Choose Canvas 2D or WebGL, and bound grid resolution and work per frame to keep interaction responsive. Verify: Sample early field evolution, then seed a separate region with the pointer. Check that the added region affects the following frames. Pause and resume, then reset and compare the restored central seed with the initial scene.
/tmp/job-dlXMC4/index.html (9319 bytes)Successfully wrote to /tmp/job-dlXMC4/index.html
Now let me run it in the browser and check the initial state.
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The browser environment reports it can't render images, so I'll verify behavior through live DOM stats instead. Let me add a small concentration readout (total V, max V, iteration count) to the HUD so I can observe evolution, seeding, pause/resume, and reset through the DOM.
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Done. `index.html` is saved in the current working directory (`/tmp/job-dlXMC4/index.html`, 347 lines, fully self-contained: inline CSS/JS, no external resources). ## What I built - **Gray–Scott integrator** on a 320×320 wrapping grid: `Du=0.16`, `Dv=0.08`, `feed=0.035`, `kill=0.062`, `dt=1`, `dx=1` (stable: `D·dt/dx² ≤ 0.25`). Explicit 2D Laplacian with periodic boundaries, ping-pong Float32Array buffers. - **Initial state**: U=1, V=0 everywhere; central disc (radius 12) seeded with V=1, U=0. - **Rendering**: 8-stop gradient LUT over V (navy→blue→teal→green→amber→cream), written via `putImageData` (ImageData is reused; no allocation per frame). - **Interaction**: pointer down/drag maps client coords → grid coords, adds V (to 1.0) and removes U inside a radius-10 brush, wrapping at edges. - **Controls**: Pause/Resume + Reset buttons, plus shortcuts (Space, R). Reset restores the exact initial fields/seed and pauses so the pristine seed is visible. Work per frame is bounded (8 integration steps/frame via rAF). ## What I actually verified (via browser DOM/console reads — no image support in this harness) - **Early evolution**: `t` advances ~480 steps/s; the field changes over time (ΣV grows, peak stays near center) — e.g. `t=216→2536`, `ΣV=159→593`. - **Pointer seeding**: clicked at client (700,350) → logged grid (221,139); an immediate post-click snapshot showed `maxV=1.00 @ (221,129)`, `hi=317` cells >0.5, ΣV jump; later frames kept the peak at the injection region with elevated ΣV, confirming the added region affects subsequent frames. - **Pause/Resume**: paused state showed the PAUSED overlay and a frozen `t` (1072 == 1072 across reads); Space/button resumed and `t` advanced again. - **Reset**: pressing Reset (button and `r`) restored the canonical seed — `t=0`, `ΣV=441`, `maxV=1.00` at center, `hi=441`; re-running from it reproduced the same early-evolution numbers as the initial load. ## Remaining unverified - **Visual appearance** (colors/final pattern morphology) could not be eyeballed because this environment returns no images. As a proxy, I ran an identical offline twin in Node for 40k steps: it develops a structured state (σ→0.112, mean |∇V|→0.035) rather than a uniform blob, consistent with organic pattern formation at these parameters. - Pointer→grid mapping was confirmed via the reported grid coordinates, but exact on-screen pixel color output wasn't visually inspected.