Spinodal

A wax lamp you can play with

Shake
the lamp.

Tap the glass. Watch the wax cloud, settle and clear. Gather it, swirl it, or leave Artist composing.

Music and jets are free on the web while our apps are being released.
Native releases for iPhone, Mac and Apple TV are in development.

A complete Spinodal lamp with amber wax visible inside its glass
From the web appEmber

Let it compose.

Artist moves the wax automatically. Leave it running while you do something else.

Move the wax.

Gather, Swirl and Repel give you three ways to work directly on the glass.

Let the room shake it.

Turn on Room to let sound and movement shake the lamp. A shake clouds the wax; it clears on its own.

In Spinodal 1.0

Phone. Desktop.
And the TV.

The controls fit the screen: touch on the glass, tools beside the lamp, or a remote from the sofa.

Apple TV · In development

Artist, always on.

The TV lamp will already be composing when you arrive. Bring up color and jet controls with the remote, then clear them to watch the lamp and its ambient background.

Studio · Coming with the apps

Jets and music, together.

Studio brings manual jets and music reactivity in one unlock. Jets pulse on the beat; bass swirls the wax.

Both are temporarily free in the web preview while our apps are being released.

After that release period, try music and jets on the web for two minutes every hour. The lamp keeps playing when the trial ends. Continue with the Studio unlock in the app.

Inside the math

Teaching Wax to Unmix

Why does shaken wax form drops again? Follow the equation, the heat and the rules behind the lamp. See how the app’s solver turns those rules into moving wax.

Read the illustrated essay

Try a tap on the glass.

Open web preview

The browser preview requires WebGPU.
Native releases are still in development.