KQ-1885 · THOUGHT/AVALANCHE

Thought Avalanche

A dark field of a few hundred nodes joined by faint, bowed filaments, where a click fires the nearest node and each firing sends glowing pulses on to its neighbours with a chance set by the branching ratio — counted over the neighbours that are not still resting — so an avalanche fizzles out below 1, swings between a handful and most of the field near it, and storms across everything above it. Pulses run along the curves at the conduction speed with short bright tails, the filaments they crossed keep an afterglow, fired nodes flash and then rest for the refractory time, and a ring blooms on the clicked node on the springs.snap constants. Arrow keys move a selection ring from node to node, Home returns it to the middle, and Enter or Space fires it.

KQ-1885 · THOUGHT/AVALANCHE

Gaugeworks Lab · Criticality

How far does one idea go?

click a node to seed a thought · branching 1.10

Open it on the Canvas stage

Install

One command — the source lands in your repo. Or copy it from the Code tab.

$ pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @kinetiq/thought-avalanche

Props

branching: number; default 1.1; How many neighbours a firing sets off on average, 0.5 (fizzles) to 2 (storms); about 1 is critical.
refractory: number; default 1600; How long a fired node rests before it can fire again, ms.
hue: number; default 195; The glow's hue, degrees 0–360; the dark field takes a trace of it.
density: number; default 14; Nodes per 100 × 100 px of field, 2 to 40.
connections: number; default 5; Each node's nearest neighbours it is joined to, 2 to 8.
conduction: number; default 240; How fast a pulse runs along a filament, px per second.
glow: number; default 0.7; How bright the pulses, afterglow and flashes are, 0 to 1.
intro: boolean; default true; The first time the field is in view, one avalanche starts by itself; it is silent and reports nothing.
spontaneous: number; default 0; Stray firings a minute while the field is in view, 0 for none.
paused: boolean; default false; Freeze every pulse where it is.
seed: number; default 3; Seeds the network's layout and the chances.
dpr: number; default 2; Cap on the canvas's device pixel ratio, at most 2.
onAvalanche: (stats: ThoughtAvalancheStats) => void; default —; Fires as a visitor's avalanche starts, at each new generation, and when it ends, with { size, reach, generations, active, phase: "spreading" | "fizzled" | "faded" | "storm" }.
label: string; default "Thought field"; The field's accessible name.
disabled: boolean; default false; No clicks or keys; the field dims.
className: string; default —; Sizes the field; it fills its parent by default.

Prop	Type	Default	Description
branching	number	1.1	How many neighbours a firing sets off on average, 0.5 (fizzles) to 2 (storms); about 1 is critical.
refractory	number	1600	How long a fired node rests before it can fire again, ms.
hue	number	195	The glow's hue, degrees 0–360; the dark field takes a trace of it.
density	number	14	Nodes per 100 × 100 px of field, 2 to 40.
connections	number	5	Each node's nearest neighbours it is joined to, 2 to 8.
conduction	number	240	How fast a pulse runs along a filament, px per second.
glow	number	0.7	How bright the pulses, afterglow and flashes are, 0 to 1.
intro	boolean	true	The first time the field is in view, one avalanche starts by itself; it is silent and reports nothing.
spontaneous	number	0	Stray firings a minute while the field is in view, 0 for none.
paused	boolean	false	Freeze every pulse where it is.
seed	number	3	Seeds the network's layout and the chances.
dpr	number	2	Cap on the canvas's device pixel ratio, at most 2.
onAvalanche	(stats: ThoughtAvalancheStats) => void	—	Fires as a visitor's avalanche starts, at each new generation, and when it ends, with { size, reach, generations, active, phase: "spreading" \| "fizzled" \| "faded" \| "storm" }.
label	string	"Thought field"	The field's accessible name.
disabled	boolean	false	No clicks or keys; the field dims.
className	string	—	Sizes the field; it fills its parent by default.