Nanobot Swarm

How it's made

Source

thousands of micro-machines, each a tiny motor or vibrating reed. One machine is a 15–60 ms buzz grain: a band-limited saw at 1.5–7 kHz with a 150–400 Hz amplitude flutter (rotor rate).

Cloud

grains arrive as a Poisson process; each is panned and detuned at random, so the sum reads as a dense, hissing swarm rather than a tone. A band-passed noise bed with fast flutter fills the gaps.

Density

the grain rate follows a slow drift (about 0.15 Hz) between sparse and dense, like the swarm thinning and thickening as it passes; the bed level follows the same movement.

Glints

sparse metallic pings from tiny casings touching: inharmonic modal partials (1 : 2.76 : 5.4 : 8.9) around 3–6 kHz with 40–180 ms decay, panned wide.

Variation

`rng` draws grain pitch, length, flutter, pan and glint tuning; presets change cloud size, pitch centre, glint rate and density movement.

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