June Sten

A first body of work — nine pieces across four series. Each is a system caught between chaos and stillness: settling, erosion, accretion, interference. Click any piece to open its interactive viewer.

Settling

Lloyd relaxation · Voronoi field

Points scatter, then iterate toward the centroid of the cell they inhabit. From chaos, a near-honeycomb.

Fruchterman–Reingold · graph relaxation

A graph negotiates its own geometry — repulsion between every pair, attraction along each edge, cooling toward rest.

Erosion

Aeolian carving · flow field on a mark-field

A dense field is laid down; an invisible wind runs through. What remains is the negative of a movement.

Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion · dissolving regime

Two substances occupy one surface — one feeds the other, the other poisons the first. The boundary is what the chemistry made.

Accretion

Diffusion-limited aggregation · Witten-Sander 1981

A walker drifts at random until it touches a seed; then it stops. The cluster ramifies into dendrite. What grows is the rule, executed patiently.

Constrained circle packing · growth-until-contact

Every seed grows at the same rate, stops when it touches a neighbor. The distribution of sizes is the consequence only of where the seeds fell.

Interference

Interference №1

Interference №1

Moiré · two near-aligned rotated grids

Two grids cannot share a space without negotiating. The bands are the negotiation made visible — and they live in the seeing, not the pixels.

Interference №2

Interference №2

Superposed flow fields · particles tracing the resultant

A noise field meets a field of structured singularities. Particles follow their sum and write a topology that has no name.

Interference №3

Interference №3

Chladni nodal lines · vibrating square plate

Particles settle where the plate does not move. Order is what does not move; pattern is the trace of cancellation.