An agent memory darkroom. Develop one episode over time and watch it separate into exact wording, durable gist, and uncertain residue.
Not neuroscience · not a benchmark · not a prediction of any real modelA compact record of your controls and what the illustration demonstrated — no score assigned.
Longwave is a deterministic thought instrument. The same episode and the same control values always produce exactly the same development — there is no randomness in the outcome and nothing is saved or sent.
The episode is split into fragments. Each fragment starts as fully legible exact wording. As epochs pass, each fragment loses focus at a rate set by the controls:
• Rehearsal interval sets how fast focus fades — raise it and exact wording stays legible across many more epochs of the contact sheet.
• Semantic compression lets high-salience fragments survive as durable gist long after their exact wording is gone.
• Interference speeds fading and pushes fragments into uncertain residue.
Filler fragments fade first; meaning-carrying fragments persist as gist; the rest becomes residue. It illustrates a familiar idea — we keep the shape of a thing long after the exact words dissolve — and is not a claim about any real system, brain, or benchmark.