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Yohei Nishitsuji / 西辻 陽平

I work on the physics of the Earth and the Moon, on machine learning, and on network science, and I have spent over fifteen years with acoustic and elastic waves. Along the way I kept meeting the same quiet astonishment: fractals — self-similarity — live both in mathematics, in something as plain as a trigonometric function, and in the world itself, in coastlines, leaves, blood vessels, ammonites, and galaxy clusters.
Most of my time has gone to science, and yet the deeper I go, the more I am drawn to what resists logic and rules — the unconscious, reality, the universe itself.
I leave the arguments to the domain of thoughts. Here I would rather borrow mathematics and code, and take the universe on directly.
The question is simple: can the world we perceive be simulated? That is the simulation hypothesis. I pursue it in OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL), writing each piece in as few characters as I can.
Brevity is the point. If a few hundred characters are enough for a sky, then the same machine, given more, could hold something far larger.

Face(s)

Expressive Artist — minimal math art in GLSL
Researcher — wave, moon, AI, game theory
Professional — fusion energy and AI at Sumitomo Corporation（住友商事）

Realm

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Lead Portfolio of Art

  • the simulated reality -clouds-
      • The clouds you see are 267 characters of code. Link
       
  • the simualted reality -sky-
      • The sky you see is 280 characters of code. Link
       
  • the simualted reality -ocean-
      • The ocean you see is 267 characters of code. Link
       
  • macroscopic microscope
      • The universe and a fungus, indistinguishable, in 265 characters. Link
 
  • electric microscope
      • An electron microscope, simulated in 267 characters. Link
 
  • the Buddha
      • The infinity of Alayavijnana Consciousness in 257 characters. Link
       
  • ocean ball
      • Water, simulated in 265 characters. Link

Media Mentions

  • CODROPS (2025) — on rendering the simulation hypothesis with fractals and GLSL
  • normalize.fm (2023) — on generative art, fractals, and writing shaders

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