Aatish Bhatia

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date

How Earth’s wobble shifted our view of the stars · Watch the video ∙ 2025
Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date

Can You Stop an Outbreak of a Contagious Disease?

How measles can slip through gaps in vaccination · Watch the video ∙ 2025
Can You Stop an Outbreak of a Contagious Disease?

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to Itself

Why training AI on its own output is a bad idea ∙ 2024
When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to Itself

Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Jane Austen

How language models learn to write · Watch the video ∙ 2023
Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Jane Austen

See How the Tonga Volcano Unleashed a Once-in-a-Century Shockwave.

A visualization of the pressure wave created by the blast. ∙ 2022
See How the Tonga Volcano Unleashed a Once-in-a-Century Shockwave.

Pattern Collider

Create and explore quasiperiodic tiling patterns · Watch the video ∙ 2021
Pattern Collider

Your Life, in Carbon Dioxide

Everyone alive is living through a period of unprecedented carbon emissions · Watch the video ∙ 2020
Your Life, in Carbon Dioxide

Why Masks Work Better Than You’d Think

An interactive essay on how masks can halt Covid · Watch the video ∙ 2020
Why Masks Work Better Than You’d Think

Making Music With Math

A guide to synthesizing sounds with the wave equation · Watch the video ∙ 2019
Making Music With Math

Dissonance

A journey through the space of musical possibilities · Watch the video ∙ 2019
Dissonance

Inharmonicity

Simulating the sound of John Cage’s prepared piano (i.e., a weight attached to a piano string). The weight makes the string sound like a bell. ∙ 2019
Inharmonicity

Synthesine

A coding library for synthesizing musical sounds, instruments and voices using math and physics. Used in undergraduate and graduate courses at Princeton University’s music department. ∙ 2018
Synthesine

Drape

A simulation using springs to model the properties of cloth ∙ 2016
Drape

Entropy Explained, With Sheep

An explorable explanation of entropy, with sheep ∙ 2016
Entropy Explained, With Sheep