Moiré field — moire3

concentric with burst 65 stars at low decay: broad spherical fronts crossed by a sharp radial burst at the anchor. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=1.6264&depth=0.0000&yaw=0.2084&pitch=0.0000&count=65&waveSpeed=18.09&decay=11.6&ringSpeed=3.52&field=1&rings=1&norm=0&surface=plane&anchor=Sun

radial fan Twelve stars, decay 21. Wavefronts and field together give concentric rings cut by a fan. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=1.7809&depth=0.0000&yaw=0.0000&pitch=-0.0629&count=12&waveSpeed=0.10&decay=21.2&ringSpeed=23.36&field=1&rings=1&norm=1&surface=plane&anchor=TIC%2055099399

crystalline Three stars, rings off, decay 56 — the field alone resolves into a crystalline knot. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=0.5545&depth=0.2312&yaw=0.0000&pitch=0.0000&count=3&waveSpeed=5.62&decay=56.2&ringSpeed=4.30&field=1&rings=0&norm=1&surface=plane&anchor=Sun

lattice, normalised Sixteen stars, rings only with sqrt(N) scaling: the lattice stays legible where the raw sum would clip. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=19.7916&depth=-7.0679&yaw=0.5146&pitch=0.0000&count=16&waveSpeed=4.32&decay=78.9&ringSpeed=1.39&field=0&rings=1&norm=1&surface=plane&anchor=TIC%20197251248

field knot 53 stars at decay 62; the interference collapses to a single bright node. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=2.3014&depth=0.0000&yaw=0.0000&pitch=1.0466&count=53&waveSpeed=4.95&decay=62.3&ringSpeed=3.02&field=1&rings=1&norm=1&surface=plane&anchor=Sun

ring lattice Field off, rings only: every star's spherical fronts crossing. The richest region in the whole sweep, and one I had wrongly written off. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=10.0497&depth=10.6366&yaw=-1.3349&pitch=0.2132&count=12&waveSpeed=4.52&decay=110.6&ringSpeed=1.10&field=0&rings=1&norm=0&surface=plane&anchor=TIC%2095431305

ring lattice, denser Same rings-only recipe with 22 stars — the lattice tightens into interference cells. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=7.9299&depth=-8.0059&yaw=0.0000&pitch=0.0000&count=22&waveSpeed=2.53&decay=78.6&ringSpeed=3.06&field=0&rings=1&norm=0&surface=plane&anchor=Sun

ring lattice, sparse Six stars, rings only. Few enough sources that individual wavefront families stay readable. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=10.8903&depth=0.0000&yaw=1.9530&pitch=0.0000&count=6&waveSpeed=16.52&decay=55.6&ringSpeed=7.07&field=0&rings=1&norm=0&surface=plane&anchor=Sun

two stars Just the Sun and one star. The minimal interference case, and unexpectedly clean. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=6.9984&depth=0.0000&yaw=-2.5223&pitch=0.0508&count=2&waveSpeed=28.92&decay=23.7&ringSpeed=21.75&field=1&rings=1&norm=0&surface=plane&anchor=TIC%20224752354

single source One star, decay 7. Pure concentric wavefronts with nothing to interfere with. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=0.4504&depth=0.0000&yaw=1.0424&pitch=0.0000&count=1&waveSpeed=17.90&decay=6.7&ringSpeed=1.12&field=1&rings=1&norm=1&surface=plane&anchor=Sun

single source, tighter One star, decay 22 — the ring spacing that pairs with a small extent. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=0.3569&depth=0.0000&yaw=-2.6914&pitch=-0.9208&count=1&waveSpeed=28.39&decay=21.8&ringSpeed=10.04&field=1&rings=1&norm=1&surface=plane&anchor=Sun

stars, tilted 71 stars, plane pitched off the equatorial frame. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=2.3608&depth=0.0000&yaw=0.0000&pitch=-0.8593&count=71&waveSpeed=28.13&decay=37.2&ringSpeed=2.89&field=1&rings=1&norm=1&surface=plane&anchor=TIC%20266744225

sphere, many stars 215 stars sampled on a sphere. Scored highest on my first metric — and is almost featureless, which is why the metric was wrong. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?extent=6.2635&depth=0.0000&yaw=0.0000&pitch=0.1272&count=215&waveSpeed=18.18&decay=49.5&ringSpeed=5.06&field=1&rings=1&norm=1&surface=sphere&anchor=Sun

as /moire3 Closest to the original stellar page: ring layer on, no amplitude normalisation. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?rings=1&norm=0&count=40

field only Wavefronts off. The continuous interference field alone, which the ring layer normally swamps. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?rings=0&count=40

tilted The plane pitched out of the equatorial frame — stars redistribute by their true 3D positions. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?rings=0&count=40&pitch=0.7

nearest 8 Only the eight nearest stars, labelled. Individual interference knots become legible. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?rings=0&count=8&markers=1&labels=1

nearest 200 Two hundred stars. Normalisation keeps it readable where the raw sum would blow out to white. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?rings=0&count=200

raw amplitude Normalisation off: the honest unscaled per-pixel sum, as the 2D pages computed it. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?rings=0&count=40&norm=0

sphere surface Sampling the field on a sphere. Each wavefront meets it in a circle that appears from nothing and grows. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?surface=sphere&rings=1&count=40

off-plane slice The plane slid off the Sun, cutting the neighbourhood at a different depth. /moire3/field/2026-12-31?rings=1&count=40&depth=2&markers=1

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