Quantum Film

Film grain laid by a quantum computer on Moth's Atlas, developed through a film model on pinned arithmetic, and fixed so every print is the same bits on every machine.

Watch: from silver halide to Pauli exclusion

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Record plays the story once from the start and saves exactly what the canvas draws, captions included, as a video file.

Compare: classical and quantum, side by side

Drag the divider. Each pair is drawn at the same density, from the project's own records.

Roll a tile: watch the exclusion hole open

Pauli and Random are sampled here, in your browser, in ordinary floating point: an illustration. The project's own rolls come from a 256-bit exact sampler, and "Atlas shots" replays the 24,576 measured on Moth's Atlas.

How it works

Film, classically

A sheet of film is gelatin holding silver halide crystals scattered at random. Light makes some developable; the developer turns them to silver; the fixer washes the rest away. Where crystals happened to clump, you see grain.

Film, quantum

Here a 16-qubit circuit (51 Givens rotations, 102 CNOTs) prepares five free fermions on a 4 × 4 tile. Measuring every qubit lays five crystals. Fermions obey Pauli exclusion, so the crystals repel. The circuit ran on Moth Atlas's tomography-api-v2 engine: six jobs, 24,576 shots.

Fixed, bit for bit

Stacked 29 layers deep, the shots coat a sheet at Tri-X's density, developed with atlas-film on cft-fp256's pinned arithmetic. Each print is a record: its rolls, its recipe and the digest of every bit.