MORPHOS

Living Field. A theremin made of chemistry. You play a Gray–Scott field with your fingers and with the way you hold the phone. The glass opens dark and clear. The first finger is a pitch. The phone tunes the pattern.

Public instrument: morphos.grok.me · repository stays IAmM3ta/morphogen.

Changelog · Instrument guide (PDF) · Releases · tagged v0.1.0 · main is ahead of that tag.

Download

Compiled packages for the tagged cut live on the v0.1.0 release:

File	What it is
morphogen-0.1.0-vercel.zip	Production build (Vercel Build Output API — static assets + Node 22 server)
morphogen-0.1.0-src.zip	Source tree at the tag
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

What has changed since that tag is in the changelog. Deploy the compiled package with Vercel:

unzip morphogen-0.1.0-vercel.zip -d .vercel/output
npx vercel deploy --prebuilt

Or from source: npm install && npm run build && npm run preview.

Play

1. Open the app and tap Enter. Grant motion. Nothing sounds until you touch the glass.
2. The menu stays away. View opens it. Reset returns the factory field. Rec records the session. Loop records a layer. Play starts or pauses those loops.
3. One finger. Slide up and the pitch rises. Slide down and it falls. The voice is a warm sine in D Dorian, about 125–501 Hz. Lo still opens to 7.83 Hz, the Schumann fundamental.
4. Two fingers, then three. The second is a fifth above the first. The third is the octave. They glide together.
5. The phone is the other hand. The direction you face changes the scale of the pattern. A tilt changes how it grows. A small movement stirs it. Turning does not smear the picture.
6. The field is dark. Bodies of the pattern are deep colour. The ground stays near black.
7. Freeze holds the last pitch as a drone, seated where you froze it. Release peels one layer. L freezes, Z releases, Shift+Z clears.
8. Headphones. The glass is a table in front of you. Left and right are direction. The top of the glass is farther away.
9. Listen, on the Sound face, hears a room, a file, or a shared tab. It does not read Spotify’s stream. Silence leaves the chemistry alone.
10. U or ⌘Z undoes. R reseeds the field. Shift+R or Reset restores factory settings and clears loops. C records. H hides the chrome.

Field

View opens the card. Sound is waveform, key, mode, the Hz window, and vibrato (off until you ask). More opens Field, Image, Body, and Sync. The Field pane follows VisualPDE Parameters.

Symbol	Meaning
F, k	feed and kill. The phone nudges these while you hold it.
Dᵤ, Dᵥ	diffusion. Heading scales them.
R, B	disk brush radius and value
N, Δt	steps per frame and timestep
L	hillshade

Species packs set the chemistry without reseeding. Factory rest is Living.

Run locally

git clone https://github.com/IAmM3ta/morphogen.git
cd morphogen
npm install
npm run dev

npm run build
npm run preview

Requirements

• Node 22+
• A browser with WebGL2
• iPhone / iPad: Safari or Chrome, with motion permission on first enter
• Headphones for spatial audio
• Microphone and camera are optional

TouchDesigner

In MORPHOS, open Sync and connect to a WebSocket DAT running as a server. Callbacks live in public/td/morphogen_ws_callbacks.py. Packets are v2 and line up with TouchDesigner Tutorial 087. MIDI CCs 20–35 are the other path.

Stack

TanStack Start, React 19, WebGL2 Gray–Scott, Web Audio (polyphonic theremin, HRTF, The Hum).