Konstellate · Vol. 01 · №1Spring 2026Published April 4, 2026
The table of contents
Issue 01
‘First Light’

First light. Every magazine begins with a list of things its editors loved enough to print — these are ours. Four long pieces, three short ones, and the standing intention that every figure on this site is alive enough to drag.

Start at department A →← Back to the cover
Cover · LiveDrag your cursor
Lissajous Garden
Setting m=3, n=4
7
Pieces
4
Long reads
3
Snippets
58min
Total reading time
7/7
Interactive figures
T.O.C.
AFeatures03BIn the Wild01CSnippets03
58 min total
A
Department A

Features

Long-form expositions. Edited to be read in one sitting.

03 pieces
№0118 min · By Hana Okafor

The shape of the prime distribution

What the Riemann zeta function knows that we don't. A tour from Gauss's first guess to the explicit formula, with interactive plots of π(x) and its corrections.

Number theoryInteractive
№0212 min · By Theo Park

Knots in four dimensions, untied

Every knot can be undone if you let it pass through itself in 4D. We illustrate why — and what's left over when the knot is gone.

TopologyInteractive
№039 min · By P. Mendel

Why the heat equation forgets

Diffusion smooths everything in time. A short look at what gets lost, and what is preserved, when the heat equation runs.

AnalysisInteractive
B
Department B

In the Wild

Mathematics applied where you didn't expect it.

01 piece
№049 min · By Mira Voss

How a queue at the airport is really a Poisson process

If you've ever stood in a security line wondering 'why is this taking so long', you've felt the M/M/1 queue. The math is more forgiving than the line.

ProbabilityField notesInteractive
C
Department C

Snippets

Short interactive pieces — three to five minutes each.

03 pieces
№054 min · K. Aimi

Strange attractors at the kitchen sink

Drip, drip, chaos. The Hénon map, as seen from a leaky tap.

№063 min · S. Lin

A walk on the Cayley graph

What the symmetry group of a cube actually looks like when you draw it out.

№075 min · J. Asare

The geometry of probability

Two coherent sources, one Bayes update — the same picture, twice.

End matter

Colophon

Issue №1 was assembled between January and March 2026 and pressed on April 4, 2026.

Contributors
  • Hana Okafor
    The shape of the prime distribution
  • Theo Park
    Knots in four dimensions, untied
  • P. Mendel
    Why the heat equation forgets
  • Mira Voss
    How a queue at the airport is really a Poisson process
  • K. Aimi
    Strange attractors at the kitchen sink
  • S. Lin
    A walk on the Cayley graph
  • J. Asare
    The geometry of probability
Set in
  • Fraunces — display
  • Source Serif 4 — body
  • Geist — UI
  • JetBrains Mono — labels
Made with
  • Canvas 2D · Pen + notebook
  • Coffee · Patience
  • A copy of Concrete Mathematics
  • Many emails between editors
Thanks to
  • Our subscribers
  • Bret Victor, in spirit
  • The arXiv
  • Everyone who said “yes, send it”