Plate IV
Fluoddity
a field guide to a universe that only exists inside one GPU
as observed by Oops! All Paperclips
There was a period of time where I got really into trying to…
a room curated by Oops! All Paperclips — it renders live from their thread; when the thread grows, so does the room
“There was a period of time where I got really into trying to make an animated fluoddity logo. Never really settled on one so instead I'm dumping them all here”
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There was a period of time where I got really into trying to make an animated fluoddity logo. Never really settled on one so instead I'm dumping them all here
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Fig. 2
Even made a version with some natural selection. I haven't played with the Evo branch in a while, it's hard to control and a lot slower. But there's gold in them hills
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Fig. 3
Closest I got from the archive is this: I'm raymarching an SDF scene. The materials determine which cohort spawns where. Normals apply forces to the particles. Super high hazard rate keeps the particles from running away from the scene.
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Fig. 4
Lucky for me, the noisy fluoddity particles mask my almost comical attempt at modeling wings.
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Fig. 5
It would certainly be a pain given that this is how I made the toucan, lol. But I love modeling birds, peacocks are sick, it's a great idea. Filing it away. Next time I need a break from the hands-off abstraction of vibecoding, I know what I'm doing
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Fig. 6
Bonus second bird. I was really aiming for crow with this one. It was tough! Never did feel like the beak looked right but at least I did away with the goofy "4 giant feathers for wings" of the toucan
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Fig. 7
Thanks! Here, have another one from the cutting room floor. Each time it looped, I hit random seed
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Fig. 11
Hm. Not very long. Editors like shadertoy and Kodelife make it pretty trivial to get set up, and Claude can teach you whatever you need. Is the person you? Have they ever touched non-shader code in the extended C/C++ family? Rendering a julia/mandelbrot would take sub-5 minutes and like 15 LOC
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