Research & Development
Simulations, an emulator, open-access papers, and research in physics, life sciences and emulation.
Products
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Labs
draconitic.com/labs/Ripple tank, orbits, quantum wavepacket, neuron, enzyme kinetics, neural network and a CHIP-8 emulator with assembler and debugger.
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Research
research.draconitic.comOpen-access studies and preprints from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, ChemRxiv, Europe PMC, DOAJ, OpenAlex, PLOS, eLife and more, sorted into mathematics, physics, astronomy, earth science, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and human biology and medicine.
Instruments
Open Labs| Instrument | Model |
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| Ripple tank Demo | Two-dimensional wave equation on a finite-difference grid: sources, slits, interference and damping. |
| Orbits Demo | Newtonian N-body gravity with a symplectic leapfrog integrator and a live energy-drift readout. |
| Wavepacket Demo | Time-dependent Schrödinger equation in one dimension, solved by the split-step Fourier method. |
| Neuron Demo | The 1952 Hodgkin–Huxley membrane model with current pulses and channel blockers. |
| Enzyme kinetics Demo | Michaelis–Menten rates under three kinds of inhibition, and the Sel'kov glycolytic oscillator. |
| Neural network Demo | A small multilayer perceptron trained by backpropagation on two-dimensional data, in the page. |
| CHIP-8 Demo | An interpreter for the 1977 virtual machine, with an assembler, a debugger and original programs. |
Research directions
Physics and quantum computing
Scientific computing, physical modelling and quantum information, with equations, units and validation kept with every result.
Instruments: Ripple tank, Orbits, Wavepacket
Biochemistry and life-science computation
Molecular evidence, metabolism as a connected network, and models of membranes and enzymes.
Instruments: Neuron, Enzyme kinetics. Reference: the metabolism map
AI and machine learning
Model behaviour, evaluation, routing between models and dependable machine-learning systems.
Instrument: Neural network. Software: Consilium
Emulation and simulation
Reproducing the behaviour of machines and services exactly enough to study, test and teach with them.
Instrument: CHIP-8. Software: Proscenium (service emulation for webhook testing)
Concepts under study
Not built- Cycle-level 8-bit console emulationExtending the CHIP-8 debugger toward a real 1980s CPU and video chip, timed per clock cycle.
- Electrodiffusion along a neuronFrom the single-compartment neuron to a cable with changing ion concentrations.
- Kinetic model of central carbon metabolismThe Biochemistry map's reaction graph as the network for rate simulation.
- Small quantum circuit simulatorState-vector simulation of a few qubits with noise channels.
- Microscope image formationPoint-spread functions, sampling and noise, for teaching image analysis.