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This is a submission for the What I Built The Imitation Mandala is an interactive, generative 3D art ecosystem and narrative simulation. The game draws inspiration from Alan Turing’s legendary 1952 scientific paper on Morphogenesis—the mathematical equations behind how patterns form in nature. In this dark cyberpunk simulation, the player boots up an illegal software core named MANDALA during the 2026 summer solstice. By manipulating sliders representing fundamental universal constants (Turin...