Almost a week since Wonderlattice went live.
It's an educational project meant to let people enjoy mathematics as a hobby.
Free, no ads, no sign-up and no tracking.
Just real experiments to play with, showing how a few mathematical rules (usually simple ideas) explain all sorts of fascinating things in life.
In numbers and headlines:
👀 Visitors
• About 2,000 unique visitors from a little over 60 countries
• On average, a few hundred unique visitors a day
🧩 Content
• 30 experiments (13 on launch day), in 7 themes: Shape & space, Chance & evidence, Games & puzzles, Making, Engineering, Living patterns, Signals & networks
• The newest (live today): "The table that forgets" (billiards and chaos), "The triangle with three right angles" (geometry on a ball) and "Stop at 37%" (when to stop searching)
• 6 languages: English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, French and Portuguese (English only at launch)
• 38 ideas for new experiments are open on the project's GitHub (under Issues), waiting for someone to build them. You're welcome to join! (Community members built 2 of the 30.)
✨ What you can do on the site, and its features
• Play and change things: drag, move sliders, by touch or keyboard, on a phone or a computer
• Read an optional plain-language explanation of each experiment, with serious sources (usually papers)
• Share an experiment with your settings (to play or discuss with others)
• "My trail": keep moments and come back to them
• Hear narration and sounds, only if you turn them on
• Show it on a big screen in class, with a QR code that sends the experiment to students' phones
• Switch to larger text and high contrast (better accessibility)
• Press "Surprise me" for a new experiment; the ones you've seen are marked
• Send anonymous feedback through a text box (an automated process sorts it and passes it to me, so it will be taken into account)
🛠️ Behind the scenes
• About 30k lines of code, 9k lines of tests and 17k lines of translations
• Over 500 automated tests run on every change: security, the mathematics of each experiment, touch and keyboard, sounds, shared links and phone screens
• Experiments load on demand (so loading stays quick as the site grows)
• The code is open on GitHub, and 3 outside contributors have added two experiments and right-to-left layout
• Most of the code is written by AI agents, and every change goes through my review and approval before it reaches the site
Soon it will probably reach a broad audience of high-school students in the US and UK, and after Sukkot, hopefully, many more in Israel too.
The project has reached critical mass, so I've more or less released it into the world and moved on: maintenance and improvements at a gentle pace, new experiments now and then, and mostly helping it reach more people, especially teenagers around the world.
I'd be glad if you shared it beyond LinkedIn, especially with teachers and with your kids 🙏
wonderlattice.com
Wonderlattice — Follow your curiosity
Wonderlattice — Follow your curiosity