What you're seeing: A bio-inspired distributed operating system with 50 nodes coordinating through pulse propagation and quorum voting — like a digital beehive.
🎯 Node Roles
Queen (yellow, center): Global coordinator that issues repair leases and provides strategic hints during voting
Workers (cyan): Task processing nodes that form the backbone of the swarm
Sentinels (red): Security nodes with heightened voting caution for anomaly detection
Drones (green): Override authority that can force repairs when consensus fails
⚡ How It Works
Pulse Propagation: Nodes send heartbeat pulses (visible as expanding rings) to coordinate state
Quorum Voting: When anomalies occur, the swarm votes democratically on repairs
Self-Healing: Local patches happen instantly; complex repairs use distributed consensus
No Central Control: Emergence and coordination arise from simple node-level rules
🧪 Try This
Click "Inject Anomaly" and watch neighbors detect it immediately
Observe the voting process as nodes pulse during consensus
See the repair shimmer when healing completes
Try "Inject Burst (x5)" to stress-test concurrent repair handling
Technical Foundation: This demo implements core CombOS primitives: hex-grid spatial addressing, pulse-based time synchronization, distributed consensus, and emergent self-repair. The same architecture scales to robotics swarms, edge AI coordination, and spatial computing interfaces.