Rheoverse is the public platform for the NSF CAREER project "Towards Interactive Sensor-Driven Tools for Exploring, Replicating, and Sharing Material Recipes" (Award 2543683).

The name Rheoverse combines rheology, the study of how materials flow and deform, with the idea of a shared universe of material experimentation and discovery. It also points to becoming rheo-versed: building intuition and literacy around how materials behave through hands-on practice.

Many materials we encounter every day, including paints, clay, icing, silicone, inks, gels, and slurries, can stretch, drip, settle, harden, or resist movement in surprising ways. Rheoverse develops tools that help people explore, document, compare, and share these behaviors through sensing and interactive visualization.

The project aims to make material science more accessible to artists, makers, students, researchers, and educators by supporting new ways of learning about materials through experimentation, recipes, and shared practice.