About Wavicle
Honest models, free to teach with.
This page covers what Wavicle is, why it costs nothing, and how it is built.
What Wavicle is
Wavicle is a small independent project, built and maintained by one person, which means a question about a simulation reaches the person who wrote it, not a queue. It builds standards-aligned science simulations and the classroom loop around them. Every simulation is written to be physically honest. The greenhouse effect simulation runs on real radiative physics, not a scripted animation, and where a simulation draws on data, it draws on real climate-era data. Every simulation is also a simplification, and it says so. A model that hides what it leaves out is worse than no model at all.
Why it is free
Every simulation, every built-in assignment, join codes, the live results dashboard, and auto-grading are free. There is no paid tier and nothing held back behind one. Teachers deserve excellent tools, plainly and without a catch. That will not change as the library grows.
How it is built
Wavicle is built with modern AI-assisted engineering, including teams of AI agents working through the codebase whose output is machine-verified before it ships. That does not replace judgment about what a simulation should teach or how honest it should be about being a model. It does mean errors get caught before they reach a classroom, not after.
What is next
More simulations are on the way. Anything still in development is labeled that way on its own page, never presented as ready for a class before it is. That labeling does not loosen as the library grows.