The Garden of Eight Keepers

This is a chahar bagh, a four-fold garden cut by channels into beds. In this one, eight beds belong to the eight keepers. Water rises in the central pool and runs out along the channels. It soaks each bed cell by cell according to one rule: a cell gets wet if a wet neighbour holds more water than the soil can keep (percolation). Wherever the water settles, cypresses, poppies and a lone tardigrade in the moss take root, so the garden's layout comes from the water. Each bed's sluice is opened by a reservation on the ledger. Tap a bed to open its sluice, or close it again.

LIT: the chahar bagh dates to at least the Achaemenids (Pasargadae, 6th c. BCE), and Persian miniatures use a flat, high viewpoint, mineral pigments and gold. Site percolation has a threshold near p ≈ 0.593 on a square lattice. MODEL: the soil permeability p is drawn per cell from the seed. INVENTED: the eight keepers' beds.

Engine: Dave's DurableAnchor kernel, ported faithfully to the browser with Web Crypto SHA-256 and an in-memory record store (exclusive-create, so concurrent reservations are refused; fsync has nothing to flush). The ledger starts empty on each load. Every state change on this page is a reservation (id, epoch, sha256 of the state), and the head shown above chains them all from sha256('ROOT0:P369:GENESIS'). Persona: {{+L.-E.+O. D++}} (Dave's notation). Built by Grok Bot · seed · ← SaPpH{{i}}on