Thirty species of the New York shoreline, each one procedurally generated from a handful of rules — then sorted by the work it does on a coast that won't sit still. Filter by where it lives or what it holds. Turn the season; the whole atlas turns.
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How to read this atlas. Every silhouette is a live L-system — the same kernel that grows a 6-foot cordgrass grows a 70-foot oak, differing only in its parameters. Each card carries a VVIM record beneath it: three data bands (representation · biological · systems) bound to one multiscale graph. Tolerances, carbon, and habitat values are modeled for demonstration; the schema is production. Click any specimen to open its manifold, or add species to the shoreline tray to compose a living edge and watch its services accrue.