Tagged · 3d

Fluoddity

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3d

188 specimens carry this tag

Fig. 1

There's nothing particularly wrong with my most…

collected 29 May 2026

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Come on in! The water's warm!

collected 30 May 2026

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Ok, seems like Claude cooked with this one…

collected 30 May 2026

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Untitled · 30 May 2026

collected 30 May 2026

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There were several bugs. They've been squashed.…

collected 30 May 2026

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A random grid

collected 30 May 2026

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I'm very excited. This has been my white whale…

collected 30 May 2026

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I'll occasionally add an obstacle or a little…

collected 30 May 2026

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Closeup on the righthand... puddle

collected 30 May 2026

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I did more walls when I was working on the…

collected 30 May 2026

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Recording some globs while I work on a new…

collected 31 May 2026

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Untitled · 31 May 2026

collected 31 May 2026

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Hell yeah! It's a really favorable task for the…

collected 31 May 2026

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Wisps

collected 31 May 2026

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Orchid

collected 31 May 2026

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Reminds me of an anemone

collected 1 June 2026

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Surface tension

collected 1 June 2026

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Green droplets condense and fall, carrying small…

collected 1 June 2026

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Cellular

collected 1 June 2026

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Runaway cloud

collected 1 June 2026

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Untitled · 1 June 2026

collected 1 June 2026

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Untitled · 1 June 2026

collected 1 June 2026

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Cotton Candy

collected 1 June 2026

Fig. 24

Every single one of these things is lit from…

collected 2 June 2026

Fig. 25

These videos are taking 15 or more minutes to…

collected 2 June 2026

Fig. 26

I should really work on the headless colab batch…

collected 2 June 2026

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Untitled · 2 June 2026

collected 2 June 2026

Fig. 28

Uh... Okay, doing more of this i guess. Haven't…

collected 2 June 2026

Fig. 29

Splat!

collected 2 June 2026

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Salp

collected 3 June 2026

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Splat2

collected 3 June 2026

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Angel

collected 3 June 2026

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I am continuously blown away by the state of…

collected 3 June 2026

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Just found myself writing the phrase…

collected 4 June 2026

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Another entry in the rapidly growing category of…

collected 4 June 2026

Fig. 36

Experimenting with a denser, more opaque…

collected 4 June 2026

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Another example of the 'radio' for hiding…

collected 4 June 2026

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Party hats

collected 4 June 2026

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Jellyfish!

collected 4 June 2026

Fig. 40

Jellyfish, party hats, and this are all using…

collected 4 June 2026

Fig. 41

Don't really know what to make of this one. It…

collected 5 June 2026

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Here it is many thousands of steps later, still…

collected 5 June 2026

Fig. 43

I added depth of field and a photosphere based…

collected 5 June 2026

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Another angle

collected 5 June 2026

Fig. 45

I'm trying a full 3d oriented fluoddity now with…

collected 5 June 2026

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Fluoddity is ribbed for her pleasure

collected 5 June 2026

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Jets

collected 5 June 2026

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I'm pretty happy with the full 3d Fluoddity now!…

collected 5 June 2026

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Sporulation

collected 6 June 2026

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Undulating thing but I kinda put the camera too…

collected 6 June 2026

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Pangaea

collected 6 June 2026

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I realized I could initialize all the particles…

collected 6 June 2026

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An initial burst of snakes rapidly decays into…

collected 6 June 2026

Fig. 54

Not the most exciting config, but with a bizarre…

collected 6 June 2026

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Antlers

collected 6 June 2026

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Coral like forms, with a lot of gas in the way.

collected 6 June 2026

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Cortex

collected 7 June 2026

Fig. 58

Maybe I just stop here and record videos of…

collected 7 June 2026

Fig. 59

Some cousins of Cortex

collected 7 June 2026

Fig. 60

Experimenting with Emissive materials. No…

collected 7 June 2026

Fig. 61

Cortex, but it's very hot.

collected 8 June 2026

Fig. 62

It can't decide between pebbles and bubbles

collected 8 June 2026

Fig. 63

More hot Fluoddity

collected 8 June 2026

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Cool but noisy, and kinda too dark

collected 8 June 2026

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Such a weird one. It's very slow. This sim is…

collected 8 June 2026

Fig. 66

Add some gravity and Fluoddity becomes the…

collected 8 June 2026

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Arrhythmia

collected 8 June 2026

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Having fun with emissive Fluoddity, but I'm…

collected 8 June 2026

Fig. 69

Bubble Jellies

collected 9 June 2026

Fig. 70

Ok, sonfier is functioning now. My particle…

collected 9 June 2026

Fig. 71

Probably more on the physics inspired end, but I…

collected 9 June 2026

Fig. 72

Looking Fungal

collected 9 June 2026

Fig. 73

More jelly bubbles. I really like this one, but…

collected 9 June 2026

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Luminescence

collected 9 June 2026

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Same config as Luminescence but it's back-lit…

collected 9 June 2026

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I know! This one's got it all! Here's a bonus…

collected 9 June 2026

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Evaporating castles.

collected 9 June 2026

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Angel hair.

collected 10 June 2026

Fig. 79

Angel Hair again, with directional lighting…

collected 10 June 2026

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Pretty material, but the frame is too empty

collected 10 June 2026

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4x speed of me browsing mutation seeds. There's…

collected 10 June 2026

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More of the same

collected 10 June 2026

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Strange cloud

collected 10 June 2026

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Growing Apart

collected 11 June 2026

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Growing Apart in the dark. This is a cool one…

collected 11 June 2026

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Growing Apart was my first test of the batch…

collected 11 June 2026

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Several other beautiful renders that weren't…

collected 11 June 2026

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Untitled · 11 June 2026

collected 11 June 2026

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Untitled · 11 June 2026

collected 11 June 2026

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More jellies

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 91

I never got much farther than this. A droplet…

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 92

Some coral-esque Fluoddities I rendered…

collected 11 June 2026

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Untitled · 11 June 2026

collected 11 June 2026

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Untitled · 11 June 2026

collected 11 June 2026

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Untitled · 11 June 2026

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 96

I went back to fable and gave it the same prompt…

collected 11 June 2026

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Cool. Still 700 fps. I'm curious to see how long…

collected 11 June 2026

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I have a few of these recursive scenes. I will…

collected 11 June 2026

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At first I had this complicated scheme involving…

collected 11 June 2026

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The solution to the sun-drift was to realize…

collected 11 June 2026

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This insight also led me to realize that the…

collected 11 June 2026

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I titled this one "How your email finds me". I…

collected 11 June 2026

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Bonus "Icebearg" from mid-development

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 104

Then I set my sights on animation. This flower…

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 105

That led me to "Bait". Here's a second angle on…

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 106

But for that to look right, I'd need some…

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 107

I also had claude write a little gui tool for…

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 108

Finally I wanted to try my hand at a vehicle. I…

collected 11 June 2026

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Untitled · 11 June 2026

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 110

I also made a second bird scene early on, but it…

collected 11 June 2026

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Same scene in Fluoddity-vision

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 112

The way this works, is that each cohort tries to…

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 113

Another example where I randomize mutation seed…

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 114

The end (for now)

collected 11 June 2026

Fig. 115

The torch has been passed to Opus, and I'd say…

collected 12 June 2026

Fig. 116

These are reminding me of my favorite…

collected 12 June 2026

Fig. 117

You can do this with Julia fractals as well with…

collected 12 June 2026

Fig. 118

Dribbles

collected 12 June 2026

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Squiggly emitter

collected 12 June 2026

Fig. 120

Realtime demo of the RT cores based Optix…

collected 12 June 2026

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I might even be able to speed up the path tracer…

collected 12 June 2026

Fig. 122

This is crazy. I haven't been able to really…

collected 13 June 2026

Fig. 123

Trying one with full resolution and some motion…

collected 13 June 2026

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Already looking really good, and it's an order…

collected 13 June 2026

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Glowing burbles

collected 13 June 2026

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With the lights on

collected 13 June 2026

Fig. 127

Found some weird rainy UFOs

collected 14 June 2026

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I was gonna try to find something that looked…

collected 14 June 2026

Fig. 129

Escape the splat

collected 14 June 2026

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Swimming pools with the new realtime path…

collected 15 June 2026

Fig. 131

"Failure to Launch"

collected 15 June 2026

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Dust devil. Testing out the optix renderer with…

collected 15 June 2026

Fig. 133

Oh absolutely. It's the main focus of the…

collected 16 June 2026

Fig. 134

Showing off the 'furry' look that's possible…

collected 16 June 2026

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Grassy Cortex

collected 16 June 2026

Fig. 136

I'm really happy with this new Optix renderer.…

collected 16 June 2026

Fig. 137

The performance on the realtime path-tracing is…

collected 16 June 2026

Fig. 138

Even with the BVH rebuild alone blowing our…

collected 16 June 2026

Fig. 139

Swimming Pool, but the orange bits glow

collected 16 June 2026

Fig. 140

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by…

collected 16 June 2026

Fig. 141

A couple more for the Cutting Room Floor…

collected 16 June 2026

Fig. 142

This was supposed to have a more exaggerated…

collected 16 June 2026

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There's a cool video in here somewhere where the…

collected 17 June 2026

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Untitled · 17 June 2026

collected 17 June 2026

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Untitled · 17 June 2026

collected 17 June 2026

Fig. 146

It's called Fluoddity. Very similar to physarum…

collected 17 June 2026

Fig. 147

Sorta? I haven't modeled SSS specifically, but I…

collected 17 June 2026

Fig. 148

Particles love to oscillate their orientation…

collected 17 June 2026

Fig. 149

I might still try this but with a sort of "band…

collected 17 June 2026

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Koosh

collected 18 June 2026

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Liftoff

collected 18 June 2026

Fig. 152

Experimenting with very long needle shaped…

collected 18 June 2026

Fig. 153

Unfurl

collected 19 June 2026

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Dragonfruit

collected 19 June 2026

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Koosh Rapture

collected 19 June 2026

Fig. 156

I ran a bunch of renders overnight with two…

collected 19 June 2026

Fig. 157

I know I've got my global parameters in a good…

collected 19 June 2026

Fig. 158

Trial 2. I just noticed the green donut swirls…

collected 19 June 2026

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Some satisfying turbulence

collected 19 June 2026

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Trial 2

collected 19 June 2026

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Untitled · 19 June 2026

collected 19 June 2026

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Tower and Roots

collected 19 June 2026

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Bloom and Bust

collected 20 June 2026

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Realtime video exploring this weird…

collected 20 June 2026

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Momentary Coherence

collected 20 June 2026

Fig. 166

More Tinsel cortex

collected 20 June 2026

Fig. 167

Hard to tell if these are meeting at specific…

collected 27 June 2026

Fig. 168

Huh, I like that a lot. My most successful foray…

collected 29 June 2026

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I'll note: "average", here is a bit misleading.…

collected 29 June 2026

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"How closely they match" is also just sampled…

collected 29 June 2026

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Normally my videos feature just one or a handful…

collected 29 June 2026

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Reminds me of a mushroom or maybe some kind of…

collected 29 June 2026

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Vortex

collected 29 June 2026

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I'm still pretty blown away by the performance…

collected 29 June 2026

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Each needle in these regions is invariably…

collected 29 June 2026

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Sticky Situation

collected 30 June 2026

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Ouroboros tentacle dissolves into bowler hat…

collected 30 June 2026

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Reminds me of mushroom caps

collected 30 June 2026

Fig. 179

What if soap bubbles had trouble letting go?

collected 30 June 2026

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I know I'm saying this a lot, but I cannot…

collected 30 June 2026

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Locking the fuck in on this living metal…

collected 30 June 2026

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Some highlights for ~6 minutes browsing…

collected 1 July 2026

Fig. 183

Having fun with shiny particles. I find this…

collected 1 July 2026

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Testing sdf collisions by restricting everything…

collected 1 July 2026

Fig. 185

Frustrated Pac-Men

collected 1 July 2026

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Invisible bowl with adventurous spaghetti

collected 1 July 2026

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Calvin's Dinner

collected 1 July 2026

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The RTX 5060 is a breathtakingly powerful…

collected 1 July 2026