Naim’s Place / Personal observatory
Interactive science experiments, original games, and practical tools, all built to be explored directly in the browser.
Timeline
The first commit establishes a personal hub, themed content sections, and an interactive science lab.
The homepage fractal grows into a dedicated explorer with touch gestures, progressive rendering, experimental fixed-point precision, and a short article.
The flocking workbench exposes separation, alignment, cohesion, and obstacle avoidance so their effect on the group can be watched directly.
A drawable grid brings the classic cellular automaton to the site, with controls for its speed, density, and starting pattern.
Life becomes a multi-faction experiment with custom rules, population histories, territorial placement, and mutual diplomacy spanning allegiance, neutrality, and war.
A rotating orbital sandbox maps effective-potential contours and local Lagrange-point stability while hundreds of test particles respond to two massive bodies.
A hard-disc collision model tracks a probe while its mass, size, and surroundings change.
An ideal elastic-collision workbench counts wall and block impacts to show how Galperin billiards can reveal digits of pi.
An original geography game turns a disk into a country through six smooth reveal stages, with separate north-up and rotated daily challenges.
A pressure-sensitive teaching surface connects desktop and tablet through a private room, turning an S Pen into live chalk for lessons and diagrams.
The private D1 ledger gets a public statistics view where filters update placement trends, player comparisons, and legend results together.
A future split-view simulation will pair the Sun’s strange path across Mercury’s sky with the planet’s elliptical orbit and 3:2 spin–orbit resonance.
A planar gravity sandbox for placing multiple bodies, setting their mass and velocity, then watching stable systems, near misses, slingshots, and collisions emerge.
A wave laboratory for colliding solitons and measuring how their profiles and phases change through the interaction, with crest tracking as a visual analysis tool.
Explore what periodic changes in an asteroid’s brightness can reveal about its rotation and rough, model-dependent shape, beginning with Atala as the reference case.
Future laboratories will explore particle systems, flow fields, fluid behaviour, and other simulations where large-scale motion emerges from many small interactions.
Content modes
Celestial archive / interactive experiments
Each diagram previews an experiment. Open it to see the model, its assumptions, and the controls you can change.
Watch from Mercury’s surface and from above its orbit at the same time. Near perihelion, Mercury’s orbital angular speed briefly exceeds its steady rotation, so the Sun slows, stops, reverses, then resumes its usual path.
Experiment in flight planningGuess a country while an abstract shape smoothly morphs towards its true silhouette with every wrong answer.
Play GeoMorphExplore the shared match ledger, compare Night Eye and JZed, and find the legend combinations that work best together.
Explore the match historyTurn a tablet and S Pen into live chalk while the same board appears on a desktop screen for tutoring, diagrams, and shared explanations.
Open the blackboardA practical note on turning daily software routines into a dashboard that is easier to scan and maintain.
In progressA space for gaming clips, loadout notes, match breakdowns, and linked highlight reels.
In progressShort notes, a few selected images, and links out to a fuller external photo album.
In progressPlay with a WebGL fractal field: zoom, pan, change the starting value, tune the exponent, and watch the structure shift.
Open Mandelbrot explorerTune separation, alignment, cohesion, and speed to see how each local rule changes the flock.
Open flocking workbenchTrack a marble through a crowded hard-disc system and see deterministic collisions build a random-looking path.
Open collision workbenchCount ideal elastic collisions between two blocks and a wall, then watch the total begin to echo digits of pi.
Open pi workbenchDraw a living grid, alter its starting state, and watch simple neighbour rules produce unexpected structures.
Open Life simulatorTurn Life into a multi-faction battlefield with custom rules, territorial placement, and shifting diplomacy.
Enter the battlefieldDisturb an orbital system, reveal its Lagrange points, and observe where particles settle or escape.
Open orbital workbenchSoftware setup guides, keyboard-first workflows, and reusable checklists for tools that earn a permanent place.
In progressA personal note about the site, the name, and the kind of trail this archive is meant to leave.
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About
Built by Naim Sheikh, Naim's Place is a personal archive for science experiments, original games, practical tools, and the occasional note. Each subject gets the space and layout it needs instead of being squeezed into one blog format.
The pages share a restrained visual system, while colour, motion, and layout shift to suit the content.
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