Diffusion

A crystal can only grow as fast as atoms can reach its face. Beneath nucleation, twinning, and every grain boundary is one quiet law: Fick's law, matter flowing down a concentration gradient by nothing but a random walk.

Bright is high concentration; the field relaxes toward flatness on its own. Click or drag to inject a spike of atoms. Watch sharp order blur, then spread — transport is the cost order pays to arrive.

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