NODE 77 Cybernetic Negentropicon

### Welcome to NODE 77: Cybernetic Negentropicon

NODE 77 is an interactive, browser-based cybernetic governance simulation. It models the delicate balance of resource allocation, public welfare, and ecological negentropy under the mathematical constraints of Active Inference and Langevin boid dynamics.

Built as a diegetic cockpit console, you step into the role of a systems coordinator monitoring three interconnected municipal nodes. Your goal is to guide the collective towards a stable, self-assembling mesh without falling into centralized debt lockout or ecological collapse.

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### Key Simulation Elements

* **Langevin Flocking Physics**: Citizens are represented as boid particles orbiting each node ring. Their movement is driven by radial constraints, orbit speeds, and thermal noise. Hover over any node to inspect the real-time vector forces in action.

* **Active Inference & Free Energy**: Systemic stress is mathematically tracked as variational free energy (Surprise). High free energy destabilizes the system, detuning the audio synthesis and triggering structural alerts.

* **Stafford Beer's Algedonic Loop**: If a node's metrics collapse below safe thresholds, an emergency algedonic override sounds. You must act quickly, spending negentropy to stabilize the core before a system-wide failure cascades.

* **Ostrom Commons Evaluation**: Open the Codex Modal to audit your governance against Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles of Commons Governance. Keep the ledger valid, manage graduated tax rates, and support community organizing to achieve a Negentropic Victory.

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### Steganographic Near-Ultrasound Modem

NODE 77 features a fully functional, near-ultrasound FSK (Frequency Shift Keying) acoustic modem.

By turning on the receiver (RX) or transmitter (TX) on the HUD, the game can transmit and receive node profiles over-the-air using your device's standard speakers and microphone.

* **Resilient QAM-4 Amplitude FSK**: Modulates data across 18.6 kHz and 19.2 kHz carrier channels.

* **Hamming (7,4) SECDED Error Correction**: Automatically detects and corrects single-bit transmission errors caused by room echoes or channel noise, flashing orange in the terminal when active.

* **Cross-Game Interoperability**: Compatible with ELTAV LLC's Acoustic SDK, allowing data-over-sound links between Node 77 and other games (such as Auravoid).