A FRESHWATER HABITAT MADE VISIBLE BY ITS OCCUPANTS
The water is empty.
Until life takes a cell.
Every fish is a connected arrangement of cubes. Every transfer is a move from one vacant unit into another. Zoom through the 100 × 100 × 100 water column and watch a food web give the volume shape.
WATER CELLSEAWEEDMINNOWPERCH / BASSPIKE / MUSKIE
LIVE VOLUME / UNIT GRIDFRESHWATER SEEDED
DRAG TO ORBIT / SCROLL TO ZOOM / CELL EDGES ADAPTTICK 00000
OCCUPANCY / FOOD WEBTICKED
MINNOWS020
PERCH008
BASS004
NORTHERN PIKE002
MUSKIE001
SEAWEED VOXELS000
WATER VOXELS00000
LIFE VOXELS00000
LIFE / WATER0.00%
FRESHWATER / FOOD WEB INITIALIZINGTRANSFERS 00000
THE MODEL
Occupy. Orient. Transfer.
At world scale, the cube is a million-cell freshwater volume. At close range, every fish is a connected voxel template with a heading. The simulation tests neighboring cells, releases its current arrangement, and occupies a new legal arrangement.
life / water = biological voxels ÷ available water voxels
The grid is not decoration. It is the habitat, the collision field, the food-web ledger, and the visible form of the water.