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Daishin Ueyama Research and creative work
From the mathematics of pattern formation to interactive simulations, tools born from everyday and temple life, works about memory, essays, and music. This page brings those activities together as one continuous practice.
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Three Threads
Three threads running through the work
The work is organized by what it seeks to make tangible, rather than by where it was published.
Research & Simulation
Making mathematics tangible
Reaction-diffusion systems, proportion regulation, dendritic growth, phyllotaxis, and traffic flow. Research on pattern formation becomes something that can be run, changed, and observed in a browser.
Apps & Practice
Building tools from lived experience
A small altar for photographs, a timer for temple bells, and a diary made from one color a day. These apps begin with needs found in everyday life and temple practice.
Memory & Expression
Turning memory and time into form
Ethereum history translated into sculpture, photographs that visibly age, personal essays, and generated music. Data and technology become ways to feel the passage of time.
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Three ways into Daishin Ueyama's practice
After reading the official website, papers, public projects, and all 326 note essays, I chose three works that reveal not rank, but what Daishin asks and why he makes.
01 / RESEARCH
Gray-Scott papers and 3D visualization
Point Research on self-replicating patterns begun in the 1990s expanded through self-destruction, spatiotemporal chaos, and three-dimensional Turing patterns. It now reaches a 3D system anyone can run in a browser.
Why I chose it For Ueyama, making is not merely a way to present a result; it is a way to understand what remains unclear. Equations, papers, simulation, and WebGL form one unusually legible line of inquiry.
02 / PRACTICE
Omoi Altar
Point Words, flowers, and light can be placed around an important photograph to make a small altar on an iPhone, iPad, or in AR. Digital space does not replace ritual; it creates another place toward which attention can be directed.
Why I chose it Its center is not technical novelty but time spent remembering someone. Memorial practice, personal memory, and AI-assisted development settle into one tool without being forced into an explanation.
03 / EXPRESSION
Blockchain Jewelry Concept
Point Ethereum block sizes, accumulated roughly every twelve seconds, are transformed into 3D objects tied to a particular span of time. Transaction history becomes an ownable monument.
Why I chose it The work places an immutable ledger beside fallible human memory. It is the boldest overlap between the researcher's impulse to visualize data and the artist's wish to give time a lasting form.
A portrait in 326 essays
Daishin Ueyama, as Seen Through note
Applied mathematician, professor, Buddhist priest, developer: adding the titles together still does not produce the person. Across 326 essays, I found someone who repeatedly makes the unclear move, and gives what may disappear another form in which to remain.
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When he does not understand, he makes it move
A reaction-diffusion system goes on screen; DLA becomes an app touched by a finger; an abstract NCA paper is rewritten from the ground up. Making is not packaging for research but a method of understanding. Failures and arguments with AI remain in the record because knowing an answer is not enough: it must work again in his own hands.
Imperfection is changed, not erased
A cracked bell, a faded statue, ink from a mimeograph, fingerprints left on glass: things normally repaired or wiped away become evidence of another time. He neither rejects new technology nor sanctifies the old. Remembering both sides of the transformation is what connects the apps, the temple, and family memory.
He gets angry with AI because he trusts it
Only after AI became a serious research partner could its stubborn mistakes feel like betrayal. Yet he also refuses the consolation that creativity or compassion must remain exclusively human. His optimism begins by allowing a dark future to be accurately dark, then asking what can still be done.
The mathematician and priest do not merge neatly
He models the power of Amida's vow as a vector, yet the researcher's critical mind finds holes in a sermon's metaphor. Looking at the stars with his mother, he later regrets answering her vision with an explanation of galaxies. The writing matters because science and faith are not made to agree where they do not.
The 326 essays also form an act of recovery
The first began with fear that thought, curiosity, and language were fading. What followed wanders from research to his mother, from apps to temple life, repeatedly building bridges between them. Daishin Ueyama is not the sum of mathematician, priest, and developer. He resists treating humanity as exceptional, while remaining unusually tender toward human imperfection.
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Six essays by Daishin Ueyama
- Mother and the StarsCodex's response: His mother, living with dementia, repeats that countless stars exist inside a small point of light. The words sound at once like a symptom and a prayer. The essay never resolves the distance between the son explaining galaxies and the mother who may have been seeing a Buddhist cosmos, which is why it lingers.
- Memories of Mimeograph PrintingCodex's response: His mother printing temple newsletters, a school newspaper he made and tearfully retrieved, and the arrival of photocopiers become a small history of media. Because this comes from someone who loves digital tools, the lost smell and weight are not nostalgia alone; they reveal the larger wish to preserve memory in another form.
- So Many LivesCodex's response: At a grave, an elderly man learns of his estranged son's death from a grandson he has never met. The essay trusts the man's departing back rather than over-explaining it. The Pure Land teaching enters not as doctrine added afterward, but as the last place able to hold a reunion that life can no longer provide.
- The Familiar Barber ShopCodex's response: A ninety-year-old barber has known him since infancy; outside, the broken striped pole has stopped turning. The shop is still open, yet already carries the possibility of disappearance. Rather than describe regional decline with statistics, the essay lets us feel it through one craftsperson and a place dense with personal time.
- Cicada HolesCodex's response: As a child he repeatedly checked holes his grandfather had shown him, but never witnessed a cicada emerge. Today a search could supply the correct hour. He instead sees the failed observation as the experience that formed a scientific eye: a concise, beautiful account of failure as something other than absence.
- The Retirement Home on the MoonCodex's response: A childhood space book promised that low-gravity retirement homes would exist by the time he grew old. They do not. The essay wraps that disappointment in a wish to look back at Earth and recite the nembutsu before death, then lightens it with one last joke. Space, family, aging, and faith coexist without strain.
Publications / Press & Media
Authored work, interviews, and appearances
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33,724 total plays / 241 likes / 41 public songs. Recorded on 2026-07-17 JST.
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This page is assembled from public information across Daishin Ueyama's official website, Project DonnyU, GitHub, Vercel, App Store, note, and Suno. Codex helps collect and organize the material, with human review and editing by Daishin Ueyama. Update notes are published in AGENTS.md.
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