sprite · axial body plan

Axial Lab

Undulators in pixels — worm, snake, eel. A fifth body plan with no limbs at all: the body is a tapered tube along a spine, and a traveling sine wave slithers down it (straight from the shared wave primitive). fins grow an eel, segments ring a worm, chassis forges a mech-worm.

Genome

Same kernel discipline

Pure seed-deterministic generator (buildAxialGenome / axialFrame) + animator (AxialCritter, slither = a traveling-wave f(t) from the shared sprite/wave.js, reproducible from seed + #steps), node-tested. Portable still: GET /sprite/api/axial.svg?seed=&family=&fins=&segments=&…. Presets are gene points.