SN Stella Nova Education Research Center

Stella Nova Research Area

Research Center

Interdisciplinary instruments for asking better questions across science, social science, archaeology, perception, environment, material analysis, and frontier modeling.

The Stella Nova Research Center gathers experimental teaching and research tools built for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary inquiry. Each instrument begins from a practical methodological problem: how to visualize buried landscapes, compare chemical source signatures, model perceptual scaffolds, examine ancient DNA alongside climate signals, or structure speculative questions before they are mistaken for conclusions.

Complexity thinking sits at the center of this work. Human systems, environmental systems, material systems, and technological systems rarely move in straight lines. They interact through feedback, scale, constraint, emergence, memory, and uncertainty. Bridging science with social science allows those interactions to be studied with greater care, while frontier science opens new levels of granularity and perspectives once thought impossible to perceive.

These tools are meant to support hypothesis generation, field planning, comparative visualization, and scholarly discussion. They do not replace domain expertise, field validation, peer review, laboratory calibration, or careful citation of source data.

Research Tools

Available instruments are listed alphabetically. Each card opens the active research tool in the Stella Nova Education Research Area unless restricted access is indicated.

Wind Tunnel

Aerodynamic Flow Model Tester

A browser-based aerodynamic testing workspace for uploaded STL models and preset aircraft, automobile, building, drone, and projectile geometries in virtual wind-tunnel conditions.

Scientific relevance Connects airspeed, atmosphere, turbulence, yaw, pitch, roll, angle of attack, surface roughness, tunnel boundaries, Reynolds number, Mach number, force coefficients, pressure fields, wake behavior, and solver-grid limits.
How it should be used Use for design comparison, teaching, preliminary visualization, A/B testing, report export, and interpretation of aerodynamic trends. It is not a replacement for validated CFD, wind-tunnel testing, or certification analysis.
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Archaeoastronomy

Ancient Architecture Astroarchaeological Alignment Explorer

A Three.js alignment workspace for testing how measured architecture, horizon sightlines, solar and lunar events, civic axes, and cosmological spatial orders intersect in monumental buildings.

Scientific relevance Keeps measured geometry separate from interpretive overlays so architectural bodies, sky-event lines, landscape relationships, processional vectors, and spatial-cosmology models can be reviewed without collapsing hypothesis into proof.
How it should be used Use for teaching, comparative archaeoastronomy, monument-orientation review, horizon-line discussion, civic-axis comparison, and structured annotation of source claims, geometric refinements, and interpretive caution.
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aDNA / Climate

Ancient DNA × Climate Signal Explorer

A browser-based visualizer for comparing binned ancient DNA allele-frequency trajectories with paleoclimate proxy records.

Scientific relevance Supports cautious first-pass comparison between temporal genetic signals and environmental proxy movement without treating overlap as proof of selection, migration, adaptation, or replacement.
How it should be used Use for hypothesis generation, teaching, dataset structure review, and identifying cases that may justify formal demographic, radiocarbon, continuity, or locus-specific modeling.
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Water Systems

Ancient Water Purification Visualizer

A comparative visualizer for ancient and traditional water-treatment concepts, natural clarification methods, cultural engineering, and modern hydrodynamic-cavitation analogs.

Scientific relevance Places Mesoamerican, Indian, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Andean, Polynesian, and Indigenous North American examples beside modern physical-process references so efficiency, plausibility, flow, settling, filtration, and cavitation claims can be separated from interpretation.
How it should be used Use for teaching, comparative modeling, research design, and hypothesis generation around water infrastructure and natural treatment methods. It should not be treated as a potability certification, public-health guarantee, or engineering approval system.
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Long-Read Genomics

Ascorbate Deficiency Long-Read Analyzer

An anthropological long-read analysis interface for ascorbate-pathway signals, nutritional stress, older remains, historical samples, and intergenerational research contexts.

Scientific relevance Separates sequence-derived evidence, variant screening, methylation summaries, coverage, authentication reports, sample material, preservation, osteological, isotopic, dietary, ecological, and historical context before any pathway inference.
How it should be used Use for research and education around ascorbate stress hypotheses in anthropological, historical, ancient-remains, and intergenerational contexts. It is not a vitamin C deficiency or scurvy diagnostic system.
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Ceramic Documentation

Ceramic Visual Analysis Tool

A guided single-image ceramic analysis workspace for archaeological documentation, object-boundary review, contour editing, surface annotation, pXRF preparation, JSON archiving, and server-side PDF reporting.

Scientific relevance Documents visible and measurable features only, keeping observed, measured, estimated, and user-annotated categories separate from typological, cultural, chronological, source, or provenance identification.
How it should be used Use for ceramic photo preparation, wireframe boundary confirmation, rim and geometry planning, surface documentation, pXRF target planning, exportable records, methodological review, and report generation.
Open tool
Lithic Analysis

Chert Instrumental Analysis Explorer

A geographic source explorer and multimethod analysis workspace for chert characterization, local analytical populations, spectral envelopes, validation results, and instrument-specific comparison.

Scientific relevance Separates geological sources, archaeological find sites, analytical-only populations, generalized map anchors, method families, and reference coverage so compatibility is not mistaken for unique provenance.
How it should be used Use for VNIR, FTIR, Raman, LA-ICP-MS, INAA, and petrographic comparison, parser verification, preprocessing review, compatibility ranking, local library inspection, and reproducibility documentation.
Open tool
Burial Depth

How Deep Do We Dig?

A global overburden and burial-depth visualizer for archaeological prospecting across broad environmental regimes.

Scientific relevance Frames the first excavation and remote-sensing question by estimating gross accumulation ranges before moving into regional correction, disturbance, erosion, or signal constraints.
How it should be used Use as a planning instrument for starting-depth expectations, environmental regime comparison, teaching, and pre-field discussion before survey, coring, test units, or geophysics.
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Regional Planning

How Deep Do We Dig Here?

A regional net-burial, surface-survival, and subsurface-method planning visualizer for archaeological prospecting.

Scientific relevance Adds regional correction factors such as erosion, truncation, compaction, bioturbation, hydrology, disturbance, and GPR suitability to move from global estimates toward field planning.
How it should be used Use after the global model to reason about regional method selection, expected net burial, surface invisibility, confidence bands, and whether calibration is needed.
Open tool
Water Tunnel

Hydrodynamic Flow Model Tester

A virtual water-tunnel tester for fully submerged uploaded STL models and preset submerged-body geometries, with analytical preview, numerical solve, and flow-visualization layers.

Scientific relevance Connects water type, temperature, salinity, depth, viscosity, density, speed, Reynolds number, turbulence, surface roughness, orientation, pressure coefficient, wall shear, vorticity, wake, forces, power, and cavitation screening.
How it should be used Use for submerged-body design comparison, teaching, preliminary resistance analysis, A/B run capture, JSON export, browser reporting, and interpretation of hydrodynamic patterns before validated CFD or tow-tank testing.
Open tool
LiDAR Registry

Independent LiDAR Viewer

A country-level navigation interface for selecting locally registered open LiDAR datasets outside a full GIS stack.

Scientific relevance Improves discovery of open point-cloud and terrain data for archaeological, environmental, geographic, and landscape research workflows.
How it should be used Use to locate candidate LiDAR libraries, inspect dataset metadata, stage browser point-cloud handoff, and prepare later GRASS, GIS, DEM, DSM, or archaeological overlay work.
Open tool
Cultural Latency

Material Memory & Latency Modeler

A global modeler for testing how cultural forms, technical processes, material resources, and archaeological visibility may separate across time.

Scientific relevance Models latency bands, capability stacks, bottleneck rankings, evidence predictions, sensitivity analysis, and comparative runs after contact, migration, trade, invention, or reacquisition.
How it should be used Use for research-question-first scenario building, teaching cultural latency, exporting/importing reproducible JSON payloads, and generating PDF reports with methodological version tracking.
Open tool
Comparative Calendrics

Mesoamerican & Balinese Calendar Converter

A side-by-side converter for Maya Long Count, Tzolk'in, Haab', Calendar Round, Lord of the Night, and Balinese Pawukon cycle visualization from a shared Gregorian input.

Scientific relevance Uses deterministic Julian Day arithmetic, the GMT 584283 Maya correlation, and a reproducible 210-day Pawukon comparison to make cyclical calendrical systems visible without substituting arithmetic for ritual interpretation.
How it should be used Use for teaching, date conversion, side-by-side calendar depiction, quick-check validation, SVG line-art visualization, source caution review, share links, and local PDF reporting.
Open tool
Maya Calendrics

Mesoamerican Calendar Converter

A deterministic browser-side converter from Gregorian dates into the Maya Long Count, Tzolk'in, Haab', Calendar Round, and Lord of the Night fields.

Scientific relevance Makes Maya calendrical arithmetic visible and testable using the standard GMT 584283 correlation while preserving warnings around alternative constants and interpretive limits.
How it should be used Use for teaching, date conversion, validation anchors, glyph-based visualization, exportable date reports, and comparison with FAMSI-style GMT conversion conventions.
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Calendrical Analog

Mesoamerican Fortune Teller

An interpretive almanac that maps the present moment through Maya-aligned calendrical cycles and lightweight environmental analog comparison.

Scientific relevance Uses the Tzolk'in, Haab', Calendar Round, and Long Count recurrence anchoring to demonstrate cyclical time, calendrical correlation, regional comparison, and analog-pattern thinking.
How it should be used Use as a public-facing teaching and interpretation tool for exploring calendar systems, recurrence, geolocation, environmental proxies, and the boundary between ritual-style narrative and repeatable model logic.
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Ethnomathematics

Mesoamerican Math Explorer

An interactive ethnomathematics laboratory for Maya bar-and-dot numerals, base-20 arithmetic, Long Count timekeeping, manuscript case studies, and comparative Mesoamerican number systems.

Scientific relevance Shows number, zero, place value, modified vigesimal timekeeping, Venus-cycle commensuration, Dresden Codex structure, Xultun evidence, and comparative Nahua/Mexica quantity signs as cultural technologies.
How it should be used Use for teaching, calculation practice, visual arithmetic, deep-time conversion, manuscript interpretation, student reports, methodological discussion, and separating visible evidence from calculation and interpretation.
Open tool
Perception

Perceptual Scaffold Modeling Lab

Interactive symbolic-scaffold visualizers for artifact analysis, comparative perception, and methodological hypothesis generation.

Scientific relevance Tests how decimal, vigesimal, sexagesimal, and hybrid symbolic systems may alter salience, organization, precision, memory, and interpretive weighting of shared forms.
How it should be used Use for structured comparative observations that can later be evaluated beside archaeological, iconographic, linguistic, metrological, and material evidence.
Open tool
Quantum Materials

Pines' Demon Explorer

A condensed-matter physics visualizer for exploring out-of-phase electron fluids, multiband RPA response, M-EELS interpretation, damping, momentum gaps, and diffusive regimes.

Scientific relevance Separates published fitted quantities, model-generated curves, charge-cancellation heuristics, susceptibility maps, simulated spectra, disorder-aware interpretations, and media-literacy claim audits.
How it should be used Use for teaching Pines' demon physics, testing parameter sensitivity, comparing coherent and diffusive regimes, generating academic reports, and keeping frontier-material claims bounded by experimental evidence.
Open tool
Quantum Fields

Quantum Vacuum Fluctuation Visualizer

An experiment-grounded visual laboratory for exploring zero-point fields, correlations, boundaries, quantum states, detector outputs, spectra, quadratures, and observable vacuum phenomena.

Scientific relevance Keeps pedagogical metaphor, mathematical visualization, experiment-matched views, apparatus qualification, SI-unit free-space electromagnetic vacuum calculations, and uncertainty/reproducibility audits explicitly separated.
How it should be used Use for teaching quantum-vacuum concepts, comparing field/correlation/spectrum/detector views, testing visual assumptions, generating snapshots, and distinguishing conceptual visualization from literal ontology.
Open tool
Archaeobotany

Rice Explorer

An evidence visualizer for rice domestication and dispersal across Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Americas.

Scientific relevance Keeps Asian rice, African rice, and Amazonian wild-rice evidence separate while combining archaeobotany, phytoliths, genomics, source records, and probable corridor semantics.
How it should be used Use for teaching, source correction, route comparison, timeline filtering, evidence-type filtering, and distinguishing data points from origin myths or direct-line dispersal claims.
Open tool
Market Anthropology

RugPull

A paired-token market experiment that makes treasury allocation, randomized shock mechanics, extraction logic, price impact, fees, and institutional beneficiary routing visible in advance.

Scientific relevance Frames adversarial market behavior as an observable anthropological and economic study of disclosure, informed participation, legitimacy, volatility, learning, drawdown, and participant asymmetry.
How it should be used Use as a high-volatility research simulator and radical-disclosure case study, not as a stable investment claim, appreciation guarantee, or assurance that disclosed manipulation is harmless or lawful.
Open tool
Frontier Models

Structured Water, Cavitation, and Coherence Models

A staged modeling framework for nested aqueous systems, structured boundaries, low-density cores, and speculative coherence pathways.

Scientific relevance Separates classical cavity dynamics, boundary-layer assumptions, cavitation analogs, field-pattern speculation, and coherence questions into distinct methodological domains.
How it should be used Use as a cautious research architecture: classical viability first, boundary assumptions second, speculative coherence overlays last, and no technological or physical claims without validation.
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Pressure Hulls

Submersible Structural Depth & Implosion Visualizer

A preliminary structural-screening and failure-visualization workspace for pressure-hull submersibles, viewport/joint limits, ocean conditions, dive profiles, and collapse playback.

Scientific relevance Models external pressure, shell buckling, material yield, viewport capacity, joint quality, imperfections, defects, cycle history, Monte Carlo uncertainty, first damage, collapse depth, and operating-envelope separation.
How it should be used Use for education, screening visualization, report generation, and safety discussion only. Human-occupied pressure vessels require qualified engineering, independent review, testing, inspection, and applicable standards.
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Biogeography

Transpacific Trajectory Modeler of Biological Life

A layered heuristic environment for modeling biological dispersal, voyaging, and climate-mediated pathways across the Pacific and western Indian Ocean.

Scientific relevance Compares biological layers, oceanographic overlays, route direction, evidence classes, confidence levels, and time windows while keeping adjusted plausibility separate from proof.
How it should be used Use for route inspection, teaching biological dispersal, testing climate and current overlays, reviewing DOI-linked references, exporting GeoJSON or CSV, and adding scholarly JSON annotations.
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Systems Modeling

Wave-Wall Theory Explorer

An interactive hypothesis-generation environment for modeling political, ideological, and cultural pressure waves against resistance structures, institutional walls, and fringe-signal overflow.

Scientific relevance Turns a conceptual social-theory framework into explicit comparative variables, equations, data panels, and visual state changes so assumptions can be inspected rather than hidden inside metaphor.
How it should be used Use for teaching, exploratory modeling, dataset mapping, scenario comparison, hypothesis generation, and report-building. It should not be treated as a deterministic political prediction or causal proof engine.
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