in earthquake engineering, a structure survives by knowing its own natural frequencies. this site is that analysis, run on one yashvini shukla.
ψ(t) = Σ aᵢ φᵢ e^(iωᵢt)
F(ω) = ∫ ψ(t) e^(−iωt) dt
this is her: one signal in time. run the fourier transform and five frequencies fall out. they are not orthogonal, so they drift. sometimes they converge, and she is one thing entirely. sometimes they diverge, and pull in five directions at once. both states are her.
watch the waves. they converge, they diverge, they never stop.
u(t) = Σ φᵢ qᵢ(t)
fourier promised it. the buildings agree. so: take the messy signal above and split it into five natural modes, each competing for amplitude.
click a spike to mute that mode, and watch the sum above change shape · click its name to visit it
what she builds out there is what she believes in here.
credentials · phd research environmental remote sensing, nottingham · meng civil & environmental engineering, ucl · wetlands (2026)
the same physics that shakes a building carries a laser to a canopy and back.
she left it unfinished in 2024. 70% of a phd like this is code, and the models were already getting better at it faster than the thesis was getting written.
graphs, categories, transforms, qualia: different chalk for the same blackboard.
family is a boundary condition. she doesn't solve around it: she solves with it.
kampala → london → ahmedabad → troy, ny → san francisco → stockholm → germany → nottingham → 78°N → kampala.
each arrival a phase shift; each departure, conservation of momentum.
she doesn't collect countries. she collects reference frames.
★ every project, place and idea is a node; the edges are the couplings. leave a thought on any node and anyone who opens it reads it.
her own model turned on herself: the weighted directed graph her preprint runs on society.
+/− to zoom · drag to pan · ⏸ stills the drift
and at the centre of the sum, the still point. everything oscillates around it. it watches.