The Lab

Independent studies, numbered as editions.

Self-directed projects — each one a complete design-and-build exploration of a single craft, shipped as its own experience with its own identity. New editions land here as they're finished.

p[ai]tterns — dark registry hero with the voxel Clawd mascot in pixel shades waving a You're Absolutely Right flag
Edition № I · 2026

p[ai]tterns — AI UX Pattern Library

118 interaction patterns of the machine-intelligence era — indexed by an original eight-family taxonomy, cross-filed, and demonstrated live: what each pattern does, when it backfires, who runs it, and what it pairs with.

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charts — the library: the live catalog — serif wordmark, the 62-form radial constellation, search, and chart cards
Edition № II · 2026

Data Visualization — Study & Selection Guide

A living library of 62 chart forms — what each is for, when it works, and the moment it stops working — with a selection wizard that flips its recommendation as your data grows. Hand-built SVG throughout, no chart libraries.

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Defender — the player ship, laser fire, a Lander and two humanoids above the scrolling mountain terrain, rendered from the original Red Label ROM data
Edition № III · 2026

Defender — A Forensic Reconstruction of the 1981 Arcade Game

Williams' hardest game, rebuilt from the recovered 6809 source and the Red Label ROMs — every constant traced to a byte, every rule argued over by adversarial agents before a line was written. Plays in the browser. No coins.

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geometry — hand-drawn polyhedral constructions and star polygons from the working journals
Edition № IV · the founding practice

Sacred Geometry — Hand-Drawn Compass & Straightedge Constructions

Compass-and-straightedge studies from the working journals — polyhedral compounds, snub dodecahedron constructions, star polygons, and the classical plane figures — drawn by hand and filmed in timelapse. The practice the Lab grew out of.

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The Mighty Heptadecagon — the guide's hero: serif wordmark beside the 17-gon drawing itself in thin ink lines
Edition № V · 2026

The Mighty Heptadecagon — A 2,000-Year Construction, Step by Step

Gauss's seventeen-gon: the problem of antiquity, the Fermat-prime mathematics in layers, and all 51 compass-and-straightedge moves drawn live on screen — alongside the hand-inked drawings, failed attempts included, that started it.

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Squaring the Circle — hand-drawn quadrature study: circle, square and pentagon with golden-ratio lengths labeled in pencil
Edition № VI · 2026

Squaring the Circle — Four Beautiful Failures, Drawn Live

The 2,300-year impossibility: Leonardo's rolling wheel, Kochański's tangent, Ramanujan's 355⁄113, and Grant's golden π — every compass move animated, every error measured to the nanometer, and the 1882 theorem that ended the chase.

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The Elenchus tribunal, live: six AI agents deliberating a payroll anomaly, their arguments and verdicts on screen
Edition № VII · 2026 · Live product

Elenchus — Adversarial AI Forensics

No single model gets to declare fraud. Every anomaly is argued by a tribunal — Skeptic, Advocate, Forensic Quant, Regulatory Eye, Polymath — and only the findings that survive cross-examination reach the investigator, sealed into court-defensible evidence chains. 592 forensic markers, 18 fraud signatures, ~274K lines of Python, 9,200+ automated tests. Designed and built solo, directing AI agents as the engineering team.

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