A surface that remembers

Material Memory.

Every action
leaves a trace.

Click the surface and drag slowly. Pull further to find its breaking point.The small green marks are fixed anchors.

Inside the material

Structure / rupture / repair

Nothing returns
quite the same.

This surface is a network of small fragments. Connections carry tension until they break. Repair joins the fragments where they are now, rather than pretending the fracture never happened.

01 / Pull

Create tension.

Four fixed anchors hold the sheet. Pull a local area and the connected structure shares the strain. Beyond its strength, it gives way.

02 / Fracture

Change the structure.

A crack releases connections. Separated fragments can move independently; they remain on the workbench until you reconnect them.

03 / Repair

Keep the memory.

Gold seams restore connections at their current positions. The changed geometry and repair history become part of the specimen.

An expressive 2D material study built from a breakable constraint mesh. It explores connection and change, rather than predicting the behavior of real ceramics.

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