<entropy garden /> v2.10

About Entropy Garden

Why this project?

Shannon entropy is the core measure of information and unpredictability, yet it lives mostly inside textbooks. Entropy Garden makes the concept visible: your typing becomes a living ecosystem whose structure and behavior change in real time with the statistical properties of what you write. It's an intuitive, play-based way to feel the difference between ordered and random text.

What is it?

Entropy Garden is a generative art engine that translates the Shannon entropy of your typing into living visual ecosystems. Shannon entropy measures the unpredictability (information content) of a text — repeated, predictable patterns produce low entropy, while random, varied input produces high entropy.

How does it work?

• Low entropy (repetitive text like "aaaa") → crystalline geometric structures, hexagonal grids, sharp ordered patterns
• Medium entropy (normal sentences) → organic branching trees, flowing curves, cellular colonies
• High entropy (random characters, mixed symbols) → wild particle storms, chaotic fractals, explosive growth

Character classes shape color and behavior:

• Vowels (a,e,i,o,u) → warm reds/oranges, radial expansion
• Consonants → cool blues/greens, structural branching
• Spaces → green growth pulses, new colony seeds
• Punctuation → yellow/white bursts, energy releases
• Numbers → metallic silvers, crystalline accents
• Special chars → electric purples, mutation events

How to use it

• Click on the canvas (or start typing) to begin — every keystroke spawns organisms in the garden.
• Try different text styles: a poem, a block of code, random keys, or the same letter over and over — each produces a dramatically different garden.
• Watch the biome shift as the entropy of your recent input rises and falls.

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