Fluoddity

The Complete Expedition Record

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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 2026Had a chance to play with this. I'd say its…28 May 2026I frequently do toroidal edge wrapping just…28 May 2026This make me think about a genre of fluoddities…28 May 2026Strivers28 May 2026Bounce28 May 2026Closest I got from the archive is this: I'm…28 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 2026A wider, faster view of the situation. I could…28 May 2026Lucky for me, the noisy fluoddity particles mask…28 May 2026Anyway, hi. My name is Oops all Paperclips and…28 May 2026MJ thread @norvid-studies.bsky.social28 May 2026Paperwork amusement Park ride for serious…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 2026It would certainly be a pain given that this is…29 May 2026Bonus second bird. I was really aiming for crow…29 May 2026Hm. Not very long. Editors like shadertoy and…29 May 2026Ok, I wasn't giving Claude enough credit. After…29 May 2026Thanks! Here, have another one from the cutting…29 May 2026Come on in! The water's warm!30 May 2026Ok, seems like Claude cooked with this one…30 May 2026Untitled · 30 May 202630 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 2026Untitled · 2 June 20262 June 2026Uh... Okay, doing more of this i guess. Haven't…2 June 2026Splat!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 2026Arrhythmia8 June 2026Having fun with emissive Fluoddity, but I'm…8 June 2026Bubble Jellies9 June 2026Ok, sonfier is functioning now. My particle…9 June 2026Probably more on the physics inspired end, but I…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 2026I have a few of these recursive scenes. I will…11 June 2026At first I had this complicated scheme involving…11 June 2026The solution to the sun-drift was to realize…11 June 2026This insight also led me to realize that the…11 June 2026I titled this one "How your email finds me". I…11 June 2026Bonus "Icebearg" from mid-development11 June 2026Then I set my sights on animation. This flower…11 June 2026That led me to "Bait". Here's a second angle on…11 June 2026But for that to look right, I'd need some…11 June 2026I also had claude write a little gui tool for…11 June 2026Finally I wanted to try my hand at a vehicle. I…11 June 2026Untitled · 11 June 202611 June 2026I also made a second bird scene early on, but it…11 June 2026Same scene in Fluoddity-vision11 June 2026The way this works, is that each cohort tries to…11 June 2026Another example where I randomize mutation seed…11 June 2026The end (for now)11 June 2026The torch has been passed to Opus, and I'd say…12 June 2026These are reminding me of my favorite…12 June 2026You can do this with Julia fractals as well with…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 2026Dust devil. Testing out the optix renderer with…15 June 2026Pool Party15 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 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 2026Particles love to oscillate their orientation…17 June 2026I might still try this but with a sort of "band…17 June 2026Koosh18 June 2026Liftoff18 June 2026Experimenting with very long needle shaped…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 2026Untitled · 19 June 202619 June 2026Tower and Roots19 June 2026Bloom and Bust20 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 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 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 2026Calvin's Dinner1 July 2026The RTX 5060 is a breathtakingly powerful…1 July 2026