What is new in Wavelace, in the app, the formula language and the site, newest first.
28 September to 1 October 2026
- Changed the share image to a dark one, with a light one beside it.
- Added the Four-Wing Attractor preset for flow: a chaotic flow with four wings.
- Added the Enneper Surface preset for shape: a minimal surface that grows into itself.
- Added a Markdown version of the About page, and the folder pages' Markdown at their index.md too.
- Added Markdown versions of the documentation and changelog pages, and a pointer to every page's Markdown version.
- Formulas now read pasted ≥, ≤ and ≠, and square brackets.
- Fixed a spaced row break, \\[2pt], in \begin{cases} being refused.
- Added the Quartic Well preset for quantum: a packet that falls apart in a stiff well.
- Added the Orbiting Poles preset for complex: a Julia set that turns with its two poles.
- Added the Spinning Drum Mode preset for surface: a drum vibration that turns round the rim.
- Pages answer in Markdown when asked with Accept: text/markdown, and robots.txt allows search and AI use.
- Added an agent skill at /.well-known/agent-skills/ and an llms.txt.
- Added a 404 page.
- Added the Magnetic Field Line preset for curve: a field line winding round a fusion torus.
- Fixed a pasted √, and functions written without brackets inside others: √2x, sin √x, e^√x and e^-\theta now draw.
- Published @wavelace/embed on npm, with <Embed> for React at @wavelace/embed/react.
- Published the formula language on npm as @wavelace/formula, under MIT, with useFormula, <FormulaField> and <Plate> for React at @wavelace/formula/react.
- Added a link to the packages' source on GitHub in every footer.
- Fixed an embed given a new link keeping its old deck, formula, title and mouse settings, and its app link opening the first plot.
- Added one contact address, info@wavelace.com, to the privacy page, the About page and the licence.
24 to 27 September 2026
- Fixed \frac{1}{2x} being read as a half of x.
- Letters written together now multiply, so \sin(kx - \omega t) works as printed.
- Added an About page.
- Updated the privacy page with the lawful basis for hosting and every right.
- Updated the privacy page with the lawful basis for counting, and counted less: no theme, country, language, browser or device, and no snippet copies.
- Added a Picture button that saves or copies the plot as a PNG, replacing the picture page.
- Fixed the Wheel zoom buttons in the Embed panel sitting out of line when the Frame toggles wrap.
- Fixed the All tab on a preset's page not leading back to every preset.
- Renamed Copy link to Share, and a shared link now shows a picture of the plot where it is posted.
- Added a picture of every preset to the presets page and to its shared links.
- Smoothed the fade from a homepage tile's picture to its live plot.
- Made a still surface cheaper: it is no longer sampled on every frame.
- Added the Einstein–Rosen Bridge preset for shape: two sheets of space joined by a throat.
- Added the Aizawa Attractor preset for flow: a chaotic flow over a round shell.
- Added the Kuen Surface preset for shape: a surface of constant negative curvature.
- Added the Lyapunov Descent preset for curve: a damped oscillator spiralling down its energy bowl.
- Added the Residue Staircase preset for wave: a contour integral that steps up at each pole.
- Added the Helicoid to Catenoid preset for shape: a minimal surface bending into another.
- Added three Spirograph presets for curve: Hypotrochoid 7/13, Hypotrochoid 7/5 and Hypotrochoid 3/4.
- Made a still shape cheaper: it is no longer sampled on every frame.
- Added superformula(θ, m, n₁, n₂, n₃, a, b) and three presets for shape: Supershape Urchin, Supershape Pagoda and Supershape Flower.
- Made tight curve and polar plots smooth by giving them as many points as they need, as in Rabi Oscillation and Rose 20.
- Added the Rabi Oscillation preset for curve: a spin flipped on the Bloch sphere.
- Added the Burgers Vortex preset for flow: an exact vortex of the Navier–Stokes equations.
- Added two quadric presets: Quadric Family and Paraboloid Family.
- Added preset search: the Preset button, / or ⌘K search every preset, and [ and ] step through them.
- The Trail dial of flow, swarm and bodies now reaches 160, and added the Horseshoe Orbit preset.
- Fixed the energy readout of gravity and charges showing drift at close passes.
- Added the elastic system to bodies, with the Spring Pendulum and Elastic Chaos presets.
- Added the restricted three-body system to bodies, with the Lagrange Points and Roche Lobe presets.
21 to 23 September 2026
- Added the springs system to bodies, with the Coupled Oscillators and Bead String presets.
- Added the charges system to bodies, with the Rutherford Scattering and Ring Trap presets.
- A letter in a bodies value, m=k, is now a slider, carried in the link under let=.
- Documented every key and cell bodies and bellman read, on the documentation page and under the ?.
- A key a system does not have is now refused by name, where vz=1 used to be dropped.
17 to 19 September 2026
- Added the Driven Springs preset, the first for swarm since it shipped.
- Presets can open their letters at values of their own; added four wave presets with a slider: Crest Doubling, Resonance Curve, Launch Angle and Dispersion.
- Added slider presets in polar, surface and shape: Rational Rose, Gielis Supershape, Focal Conic, Chladni Plate, Cusp Catastrophe, Knot Family, Horn Torus and Superellipsoid.
- Added slider presets in complex, quantum and flow: Julia Dials, Multibrot, Newton Petals, Barrier or Well, Reflectionless Well, Squeezed Packet, Hopf Bifurcation and Van der Pol.
- Fixed a function without brackets inside another being refused: \sqrt{\sin t}, \left|\sin x\right| and \cos(x + \sin t) now draw.
- Fixed a swarm sliding off the plot in Springs and Gravity Disc.
- Laid this page out like the documentation, with its blocks in a rail.
- Added this page.
- A letter in a complex formula now gets a slider, with c and i kept for the complex renderer.
- Added a reference to the formula language, in a drawer beside the field, opened with ?.
- Added degrees: 90° and 90^\circ.
- The rail now opens at a third of the window.
- A subscripted letter such as x_0 or \omega_0 now gets its own slider.
- A Greek letter, typed as \omega or pasted as ω, now gets a slider.
- Added sliders for the letters a formula names, carried in the link.
- The app now opens dark and the site light, each keeping its own theme.
- Added a documentation page, written from the tables the app reads.
- The surface, shape and quantum 2D meshes now open filled.
- Renamed two presets, Fourfold Mandala and Phase Fold; their old addresses still work.
10 to 13 September 2026
- Added derivatives: diff(expr, x) and \frac{d}{dx}.
- Added \sum and \prod, with Fourier series presets such as Square Fourier.
- Added special functions: gamma, the factorial and \binom, erf, besselJ, sinc, the inverse hyperbolics, floor, ceiling and \begin{cases}.
- Added integrals, \int_a^b … du and integral(expr, u, a, b), with sixteen presets such as Drumhead.
- Added a privacy page, and the fonts now load from the site itself.
- A still plot is no longer redrawn, so an idle page costs nothing.
- Added the bellman renderer, with Russell–Norvig 4×3 among its presets.
- Added notes to every preset, and a page for each under presets.
6 to 9 September 2026
- Added the homepage with a live gallery, and a picture page.
- Added the embed page and the Embed panel.
- Moved playback, the views and the toggles into a deck under the plot.
- Added the trace and pan options, the preset in the link, mod, and the Heartbeat and Rose 20 presets.
- Added LaTeX in the formula box, and products written without a sign, such as 2x.
- Added the quantum renderers, in one and two dimensions.
- Added the flow, swarm and bodies renderers.
- Wavelace launched with the wave, surface, polar, curve, shape and complex renderers, themes and shareable links, and presets such as Alain's Curve and Guitar String.