Reef
An irreversible living garden you can only add to — never prune. Plant seeds and a branching organism grows from each in real time; every birth rings a note. Space your seeds wisely and the garden stays luminous and consonant. Crowd them and the branches choke: the notes detune and dull, the colour bleaches to gray, the light dims. You live with what you made.
keyboard
- ← ↑ → ↓ / WASD move reticle
- Space plant a seed
- 1–5 / [ ] species
- R fresh garden
- tap the field to plant (secondary)
species
Bigger species scatter denser seed-clouds — greedier, likelier to choke themselves.
garden health
Bright violet = consonant & spacious. Gray = crowded & bleached. Nothing here can be removed — only added.
Each organism grows by space colonization (Runions et al.): branch tips reach toward nearby attractor points and split where the pull divides. A birth's branch angle chooses a just-pentatonic degree and its depth the octave — so a sparse garden rings a slowly-evolving chord, while overcrowding detunes and dulls every new voice at once.