Fluoddity

The Complete Expedition Record

514 specimens, chronological. Every one has a permanent page — the rooms are curation; this is the record.

the record in two dimensions: flatland (52) · the depths (215)

May 2026

Growing crystals:25 May 2026Particles interact through trails that diffuse…25 May 2026Sausage Links and Sparkles25 May 2026Individual particles dont belong to a particular…25 May 2026Hatman!26 May 2026A fragile membrane26 May 2026Blobs and butterflies26 May 2026I love a good metastable Fluoddity config. Like…26 May 2026The hardest part is getting global parameters in…27 May 2026In general I'm just throwing around…27 May 2026Let's call these clumps of same-behavior…27 May 2026I think you'll find many settings have a strong…27 May 2026This is what 64 randomly generated agent…27 May 2026At this point I'll usually drop to 9, 16, or 25…27 May 2026So down to 9 cohorts, each with a small mutation…27 May 2026I'll do a few rounds of selection on this…27 May 2026Sometimes I'll fiddle with the global settings…27 May 2026Eventually I'll go down to one cohort, set a…27 May 2026All the examples here are running at 600hz. I'll…27 May 2026As far as specific parameters: trail_decay…27 May 2026I like to set axial forces…27 May 2026There was a period of time where I got really…27 May 2026Even made a version with some natural selection.…27 May 2026Untitled · 27 May 202627 May 2026Untitled · 27 May 202627 May 2026Untitled · 27 May 202627 May 2026Just doing my usual explorations and he found me27 May 2026Had a chance to play with this. I'd say its…28 May 2026I frequently do toroidal edge wrapping just…28 May 2026Don't you dare let hatman hear you say that!🎩28 May 2026This make me think about a genre of fluoddities…28 May 2026Strivers28 May 2026Bounce28 May 2026In addition to structures we see in nature like…28 May 2026Kind of a silly name, but oh well. Etymology on…28 May 2026A common thread among configs I find interesting…28 May 2026Omegas seem to result from "two way traffic"…28 May 2026Some configurations display the omega motif, but…28 May 2026Closely related to omegas: membranes more…28 May 2026Here's a nice closeup of the process in a…28 May 2026Quick proof of concept: You can still get…29 May 2026There's nothing particularly wrong with my most…29 May 2026You'd think that after hundreds of hours it'd be…29 May 2026Hm. Not very long. Editors like shadertoy and…29 May 2026Turning the above into a quine with orbit traps…29 May 2026Ok, I wasn't giving Claude enough credit. After…29 May 2026Ok, seems like Claude cooked with this one…30 May 2026Untitled · 30 May 202630 May 2026Definitely not perfect. This is a top down view,…30 May 2026There were several bugs. They've been squashed.…30 May 2026A random grid30 May 2026I'm very excited. This has been my white whale…30 May 2026I'll occasionally add an obstacle or a little…30 May 2026Closeup on the righthand... puddle30 May 2026I did more walls when I was working on the…30 May 2026Recording some globs while I work on a new…31 May 2026Untitled · 31 May 202631 May 2026Hell yeah! It's a really favorable task for the…31 May 2026Wisps31 May 2026Orchid31 May 2026

June 2026

Reminds me of an anemone1 June 2026Surface tension1 June 2026Green droplets condense and fall, carrying small…1 June 2026There was a massive bug. There are probably…1 June 2026This is the same config in 2d.1 June 2026Cellular1 June 2026Runaway cloud1 June 2026Untitled · 1 June 20261 June 2026Untitled · 1 June 20261 June 2026Cotton Candy1 June 2026Every single one of these things is lit from…2 June 2026These videos are taking 15 or more minutes to…2 June 2026I should really work on the headless colab batch…2 June 2026We can even bias the sensor-plane sampler…2 June 2026I think I have a type of behavioral problem that…2 June 2026Untitled · 2 June 20262 June 2026Uh... Okay, doing more of this i guess. Haven't…2 June 2026Splat!2 June 2026Really bizarre. Definitely seeing telltale…2 June 2026Salp3 June 2026Splat23 June 2026Angel3 June 2026I am continuously blown away by the state of…3 June 2026Just found myself writing the phrase…4 June 2026Another entry in the rapidly growing category of…4 June 2026Experimenting with a denser, more opaque…4 June 2026Another example of the 'radio' for hiding…4 June 2026Party hats4 June 2026Jellyfish!4 June 2026Jellyfish, party hats, and this are all using…4 June 2026Don't really know what to make of this one. It…5 June 2026Here it is many thousands of steps later, still…5 June 2026I added depth of field and a photosphere based…5 June 2026Another angle5 June 2026I'm trying a full 3d oriented fluoddity now with…5 June 2026Fluoddity is ribbed for her pleasure5 June 2026Jets5 June 2026I'm pretty happy with the full 3d Fluoddity now!…5 June 2026Sporulation6 June 2026Undulating thing but I kinda put the camera too…6 June 2026Pangaea6 June 2026I realized I could initialize all the particles…6 June 2026An initial burst of snakes rapidly decays into…6 June 2026Not the most exciting config, but with a bizarre…6 June 2026Antlers6 June 2026Coral like forms, with a lot of gas in the way.6 June 2026Cortex7 June 2026Maybe I just stop here and record videos of…7 June 2026Some cousins of Cortex7 June 2026Experimenting with Emissive materials. No…7 June 2026Cortex, but it's very hot.8 June 2026It can't decide between pebbles and bubbles8 June 2026More hot Fluoddity8 June 2026Cool but noisy, and kinda too dark8 June 2026Such a weird one. It's very slow. This sim is…8 June 2026Add some gravity and Fluoddity becomes the…8 June 2026Welp, the weird kid just ate his Fluoddity lab.…8 June 2026Arrhythmia8 June 2026Having fun with emissive Fluoddity, but I'm…8 June 2026Bubble Jellies9 June 2026Ok, sonfier is functioning now. My particle…9 June 2026I'm fascinated by the ridges in these leafy…9 June 2026Looking Fungal9 June 2026More jelly bubbles. I really like this one, but…9 June 2026Luminescence9 June 2026Same config as Luminescence but it's back-lit…9 June 2026I know! This one's got it all! Here's a bonus…9 June 2026Evaporating castles.9 June 2026Angel hair.10 June 2026Angel Hair again, with directional lighting…10 June 2026Pretty material, but the frame is too empty10 June 20264x speed of me browsing mutation seeds. There's…10 June 2026More of the same10 June 2026Strange cloud10 June 2026Growing Apart11 June 2026Growing Apart in the dark. This is a cool one…11 June 2026Growing Apart was my first test of the batch…11 June 2026Several other beautiful renders that weren't…11 June 2026Untitled · 11 June 202611 June 2026Untitled · 11 June 202611 June 2026More jellies11 June 2026I never got much farther than this. A droplet…11 June 2026Some coral-esque Fluoddities I rendered…11 June 2026Untitled · 11 June 202611 June 2026Untitled · 11 June 202611 June 2026Untitled · 11 June 202611 June 2026I went back to fable and gave it the same prompt…11 June 2026Cool. Still 700 fps. I'm curious to see how long…11 June 2026The torch has been passed to Opus, and I'd say…12 June 2026Dribbles12 June 2026Squiggly emitter12 June 2026Realtime demo of the RT cores based Optix…12 June 2026I might even be able to speed up the path tracer…12 June 2026This is crazy. I haven't been able to really…13 June 2026Trying one with full resolution and some motion…13 June 2026Already looking really good, and it's an order…13 June 2026Glowing burbles13 June 2026With the lights on13 June 2026Found some weird rainy UFOs14 June 2026I was gonna try to find something that looked…14 June 2026Escape the splat14 June 2026Swimming pools with the new realtime path…15 June 2026"Failure to Launch"15 June 2026Clearly I have angered some kind of ⅄-∀xᴉs…15 June 2026Dust devil. Testing out the optix renderer with…15 June 2026Pool Party15 June 2026Seems like I've been double-tonemapping…15 June 2026After some struggles and a million tool calls*,…16 June 2026Oh absolutely. It's the main focus of the…16 June 2026Showing off the 'furry' look that's possible…16 June 2026Grassy Cortex16 June 2026The AI denoiser is absolutely cracked if you…16 June 2026I'm really happy with this new Optix renderer.…16 June 2026The performance on the realtime path-tracing is…16 June 2026Even with the BVH rebuild alone blowing our…16 June 2026Swimming Pool, but the orange bits glow16 June 2026I'm not sure exactly what you mean by…16 June 2026A couple more for the Cutting Room Floor…16 June 2026This was supposed to have a more exaggerated…16 June 2026There's a cool video in here somewhere where the…17 June 2026Untitled · 17 June 202617 June 2026Untitled · 17 June 202617 June 2026It's called Fluoddity. Very similar to physarum…17 June 2026Sorta? I haven't modeled SSS specifically, but I…17 June 2026Yeah, that rich, extra-saturated look is my…17 June 2026Particles love to oscillate their orientation…17 June 2026I might still try this but with a sort of "band…17 June 2026Some nice textures17 June 2026Untitled · 17 June 202617 June 2026Koosh18 June 2026Liftoff18 June 2026Experimenting with very long needle shaped…18 June 2026Reminds me of a flower bud or, more…18 June 2026Unfurl19 June 2026Dragonfruit19 June 2026Koosh Rapture19 June 2026I ran a bunch of renders overnight with two…19 June 2026I know I've got my global parameters in a good…19 June 2026Trial 2. I just noticed the green donut swirls…19 June 2026Some satisfying turbulence19 June 2026Trial 219 June 2026I'm such a sucker for extreme depth of field.19 June 2026Untitled · 19 June 202619 June 2026Tower and Roots19 June 2026Bloom and Bust20 June 2026Implemented a proper importance sampled skylight…20 June 2026These mirror fibers make for really noisy…20 June 2026I didn't realize how much texture I was missing…20 June 2026Realtime video exploring this weird…20 June 2026Momentary Coherence20 June 2026More Tinsel cortex20 June 2026Thus far, I haven't been finding crystals in 3d.…27 June 2026So I reduced particle/voxel count by a factor of…27 June 2026Hard to tell if these are meeting at specific…27 June 2026Huh, I like that a lot. My most successful foray…29 June 2026I'll note: "average", here is a bit misleading.…29 June 2026"How closely they match" is also just sampled…29 June 2026Normally my videos feature just one or a handful…29 June 2026I was laying in bed last night thinking about…29 June 2026Reminds me of a mushroom or maybe some kind of…29 June 2026Vortex29 June 2026I'm still pretty blown away by the performance…29 June 2026Each needle in these regions is invariably…29 June 2026Sticky Situation30 June 2026Ouroboros tentacle dissolves into bowler hat…30 June 2026Reminds me of mushroom caps30 June 2026What if soap bubbles had trouble letting go?30 June 2026I know I'm saying this a lot, but I cannot…30 June 2026Locking the fuck in on this living metal…30 June 2026

July 2026

Some highlights for ~6 minutes browsing…1 July 2026Having fun with shiny particles. I find this…1 July 2026Testing sdf collisions by restricting everything…1 July 2026Frustrated Pac-Men1 July 2026Invisible bowl with adventurous spaghetti1 July 2026Untitled · 1 July 20261 July 2026Calvin's Dinner1 July 2026The RTX 5060 is a breathtakingly powerful…1 July 2026Waterfall waves2 July 2026Exploring some gross looking mutations. Warning:…2 July 2026Calvin's Dinner (Unrated)2 July 2026Melting pot of color coded mutations2 July 2026Some more from the cutting room floor2 July 2026Untitled · 2 July 20262 July 2026Untitled · 2 July 20262 July 2026Untitled · 2 July 20262 July 2026Untitled · 2 July 20262 July 2026Untitled · 2 July 20262 July 2026Fuzzyrain3 July 2026Untitled · 3 July 20263 July 2026Pink threads rain down and collect into drops.…3 July 2026Untitled · 3 July 20263 July 2026Tiered clouds shrink as they rain into the level…3 July 2026Hyphae4 July 2026Shredded5 July 2026Roiling golden fleece. Simple, but pleasing.5 July 2026Some writhing snaky things5 July 2026Nice membrane/bubble action5 July 2026Reminds me of a Bundt cake5 July 2026Not your typical orange peel5 July 2026Similar wave->inert particle dynamics to the…5 July 2026Pulsing coral stuff5 July 2026Orb decays into golden threads5 July 2026More bubbly5 July 2026Even more bubbly, with weird tangles in the…5 July 2026And so on5 July 2026And so forth5 July 2026I've been feeling sort of uninspired on the…6 July 2026Bought the wrong kind of yeast6 July 2026Spread6 July 2026Indecisive bubbles6 July 2026This instability continues for quite some time.…6 July 2026Still goin. This is 10 seconds at 3khz. Time to…6 July 2026Huh6 July 2026I love this rain + clouds motif. Often times,…6 July 2026Lilypad clouds try to wander off.6 July 2026About twice as fast: 5khz.6 July 2026Trying out a version where each particle carries…7 July 2026Glittering Spools7 July 2026Blast7 July 2026Ocean Waves7 July 2026Perhaps unsurprisingly, the fully oriented…7 July 2026Realtime pathtracing some random mutations of…8 July 2026I can't believe it's only been about 40 days…8 July 2026Crooked tower melts into eels9 July 2026Spools to Cables9 July 2026Growing trumpets9 July 2026Mushroom cap bubbles9 July 2026Multi-layered Pop10 July 2026Volatile10 July 2026Jellyfish-Mushroom-Raincloud10 July 2026Too many cool mutations to record them all at…11 July 2026Crazy Dumpling11 July 2026Bead Cucumber Cacti11 July 2026Pagoda Jet11 July 2026More fruits from running the batch-renderer…11 July 2026Untitled · 11 July 202611 July 2026Untitled · 11 July 202611 July 2026Untitled · 11 July 202611 July 2026Untitled · 11 July 202611 July 2026Untitled · 11 July 202611 July 2026Untitled · 11 July 202611 July 2026Kind of an odd one. At first it makes this…12 July 2026So, this particular one is lost to the sands of…12 July 2026After a little while, I speed up to 2 physics…12 July 2026Super weird. The little caterpillars(???) are…12 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Untitled · 12 July 202612 July 2026Turmites: Basically just discrete fluoddity. And…13 July 2026No standout hits from last night's render…13 July 2026Untitled · 13 July 202613 July 2026Untitled · 13 July 202613 July 2026Untitled · 13 July 202613 July 2026Untitled · 13 July 202613 July 2026Untitled · 13 July 202613 July 2026Untitled · 13 July 202613 July 2026Untitled · 13 July 202613 July 2026Untitled · 13 July 202613 July 2026Me and Claude are finally making some cuts13 July 2026This is what it's all about14 July 2026Melting my gpu trying out some transparent…14 July 2026The massive collection of scattered rendering…14 July 2026Pareidolia abounds15 July 2026Stereogram15 July 2026More cross-eye nonsense. I really like the 3d…15 July 2026LLMs are so cool15 July 2026Untitled · 15 July 202615 July 2026Flipped for the divergent viewers among you15 July 2026Some cross-eye stills.15 July 2026Untitled · 15 July 202615 July 2026Untitled · 15 July 202615 July 2026Flipped for divergent viewing15 July 2026Flipped for divergent viewing15 July 2026Flipped for divergent viewing15 July 2026Untitled · 15 July 202615 July 2026Flipped for divergent viewing15 July 2026Loopy16 July 2026(Wall-eye)16 July 2026Dogpile16 July 2026(Wall-eye)16 July 2026Lilypad Breakup16 July 2026Wanted to call it "Divergence" but that would…16 July 2026Dumping the rest of last night's render harvest.…16 July 2026Untitled · 16 July 202616 July 2026Untitled · 16 July 202616 July 2026Untitled · 16 July 202616 July 2026Untitled · 16 July 202616 July 2026Untitled · 16 July 202616 July 2026Untitled · 16 July 202616 July 2026Untitled · 16 July 202616 July 2026Noodlestar16 July 2026Noodlestar16 July 2026Cool! It's also really reminding me of my brief…16 July 2026Claude's idea of irony16 July 2026Jumping Beans16 July 2026Jumping Beans16 July 2026Bulb17 July 2026Bulb17 July 2026Faster Bulb17 July 2026Faster Bulb17 July 2026Fluoddity3D is almost ready. There's some…17 July 2026Untitled · 18 July 202618 July 2026Yeah, it's a Midjourney v7 from the archives. I…18 July 2026Introducing Fluoddity3D!19 July 2026Dusting off the old 2d codebase, and I'm…19 July 2026Instead of drawing particles to the screen based…20 July 2026First try: ending with this cool flower thing20 July 2026Not bad, honestly. There's some swimmers and…20 July 2026Second try was less successful on both accounts.…20 July 2026Blue sausage and meandering loops20 July 2026Odd. It's not a crystal exactly, but it has…20 July 2026Tail Wag20 July 2026Testing some easy performance wins in Fluoddity.…20 July 2026A consistent issue I've run into through years…21 July 2026One simple solution: walls. But it's so…21 July 2026But how should walls differ from standard…21 July 2026Experimenting with some mutations21 July 2026Drawing walls for environment diversity and…21 July 2026The rules here are quite simple: each frame we…21 July 2026This is an absurdly simple game --Just a grid of…21 July 2026It's a pretty positive signal that dynamics…21 July 2026Here it is after ~2.5 million steps. I've just…21 July 2026Naturally evolved swimmers roaming around and…21 July 2026Glyphs22 July 202612khz22 July 2026Trying out an explicit fitness function. This is…22 July 2026Here's the same run from ~150k steps later. It's…22 July 2026Even open maps with no walls support some cool…22 July 2026These evolution sims are really fun to look at…22 July 2026In addition to walls, I've been trying these…22 July 2026I'm having a great time watching these things…22 July 2026Timelapse for comparison22 July 2026Looks like this now. The above videos were from…22 July 2026Still changing after 4 million steps. Some…22 July 2026Extreme timelapse22 July 2026I have other things I want to try but I don't…22 July 2026The fact that particles have slowly spread out…22 July 2026Pink bubbles, swimmers and peas23 July 2026Untitled · 23 July 202623 July 2026Untitled · 23 July 202623 July 2026Membranes decay into bullets23 July 2026Membrane clearly wants to be a fractal, but…23 July 2026More membranes, swimmers, and peas23 July 2026I'm a moron, why had this never occurred to me…24 July 2026Unexpected Consequences24 July 2026Cohort fences!24 July 2026Segmented worms!24 July 2026Auspicious24 July 2026Natural selection timelapse25 July 2026Strange membranes, right angles and manta rays25 July 2026Rudely Interrupted25 July 2026Celularity25 July 2026Burst25 July 2026Unsustainable Growth26 July 2026Undulatory26 July 2026A single particle species in a universe where…26 July 2026Petri Platter26 July 2026Isosceles26 July 2026A few times in my many hours of Midjourneying, I…27 July 2026Untitled · 27 July 202627 July 2026Untitled · 27 July 202627 July 2026Untitled · 27 July 202627 July 2026These images and the 4 preceding it were…27 July 2026I really appreciate that Claude checks his work…27 July 2026Apparently this27 July 2026Working on a simplified rebuild of Fluoddity…28 July 2026Unstable28 July 2026Having fun with this new push/pull tool28 July 2026Beautiful square lattice. Reveals some subtle…28 July 2026A simple fix to this kind of aliasing is to add…28 July 2026Another uniform gas that condenses with the…28 July 2026I've never seen Claude put the recommended…28 July 2026Not bad. I'm still tempted to shoehorn…28 July 2026Really making an effort to cut down on…28 July 2026He just like me29 July 2026Assembly Line29 July 2026Corrugated membranes leave trails of particles…29 July 2026Kick starting a corrugated membrane in a field…29 July 2026Getting into the meat of the web port and I can…30 July 2026Time to walk to the beach and read some…30 July 2026Well folks, we had a good run.30 July 2026Trying to push all the pellets together to make…31 July 2026Trying out random mutations on a Fluoddity that…31 July 2026Using Chrome to post while Claude uses Chrome to…31 July 2026

August 2026

I've never seen one species with both square and…1 August 2026This one forms a hex crystal where the pressure…1 August 2026Left to run for long enough, most structure…1 August 2026Weird kind of checkerboard crystal1 August 2026Lil indecisive triangle fella2 August 2026Swimmer tries to eat a flower much too big for…2 August 2026Little swimmer wanders into a lethal triangular…2 August 2026I love the diversity of stable forms here. There…2 August 2026I'm generally loading an existing save that…2 August 2026Untitled · 2 August 20262 August 2026Strange Swimmers2 August 2026Contamination2 August 2026Fingerprints3 August 2026I like the branching vein-like structures here3 August 2026Branches3 August 2026Branches3 August 2026I love when a single species shows such…3 August 2026The diverse mixture of phases is super stable.…3 August 2026Interestingly, this mixture does arise from an…3 August 2026Playing around with single-particle fluoddity3 August 2026I love Opus4 August 2026The dream of fully featured Fluoddity web…4 August 2026There were a couple tiny bugs: Bloom overlay was…4 August 2026The computer could never replace me haha I'm the…4 August 2026This Fluoddity likes to make these pellets with…4 August 2026Opus has such a way with words5 August 2026Crazy right? See here i mutate a strongly…6 August 2026Bro, I'm just trying to find the source material…7 August 2026PAIN10 August 2026Really clean example of Fluoddity exhibiting the…10 August 2026Just exploring mutations of this species and the…10 August 2026It's that time again.11 August 2026Beautiful one-shot of a umapping utility for…11 August 2026I give you: The Fluoddity CLIP embedding U-map…11 August 2026I run it for a couple thousand frames, then take…11 August 2026Sorting 10k random fluoddities by arbitrary…12 August 2026Claude calling me a fucking idiot12 August 2026Exploring some flowery Fluoddities12 August 2026Crawly Cogs12 August 2026Swimmers devour each other and pick up gas.…12 August 2026I spend literally hours a day exploring this…12 August 2026Absolutely there were eras.12 August 2026Hardcoded brains for the agents. The birds shown…12 August 2026Lil stripey amoebas13 August 2026I'm digging into the 10k random fluoddities…13 August 2026Close up of the Noise island off to the left13 August 2026A little island of a dozen or so "small pellets…13 August 2026Bottom right lobe: cool stuff corner13 August 2026Tube bubbles13 August 2026Tube bubbles13 August 2026Ooh! neat! It already functions very similar to…13 August 2026GPU really fighting for its life over here.…13 August 2026Mostly just for generating these big maps and…14 August 2026Wtf am I up to...14 August 2026Ok, I had a very specific purpose in mind for…14 August 2026Believe it or not, this is a microphone15 August 2026You cooked, Claude.15 August 2026The computer could never replace me haha I'm the…15 August 2026🔊15 August 2026Finally found some sounds that are more pleasant…16 August 2026I have straight-up NO idea what's going on in…16 August 2026Getting some cool sounds now!🔊17 August 2026Very evil energy comin' out of my speakers17 August 2026