Cubic
Symmetry
Engine

What this is

Every Form is one cubic equation, drawn as the thing it actually is. The three roots are the bodies, sitting where they land in the complex plane, the discriminant decides if they stay apart, fracture or merge, and the coefficients do the rest. Solving a cubic leaves exactly one real choice, which of three cube roots to take, and each Form commits to one.

It then gets rendered like it’s 1994 in real 3D with some pixels thrown out, every cell redrawn as a glyph. If you remember BBSes, the 90s demo scene, file_id.diz and a 64k intro melting your 486, you already know the look. Can you hear the dial-up handshake?

There are 22 forms across 512 Forms that you can solve till you find ones that are meant to be yours. Visit the lab to mess around further.

Inspired by a post by Vitalik about solving cubics.

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