DIRECT EQUATION ARTWORK
A coordinate becomes a colour. Eleven folds emerge from a winding cosine. Every fold, highlight and hue comes from the 1.6 KB pixel function you can inspect below.
NACRE / 05
The field resolves into a nacreous spiral.
A live formula, evaluated in the browser. The phase control is an authored change of state, not fluid motion.
STAGE 05 / FINISHED
The final field combines the authored pearl palette with analytic relief, a soft specular response and a display curve.
VISIBLE HELPERS c = clamp(a, 0, 1) · S(a) = c²(3 − 2c) · m = S((.835 + .026 cos q − r)/.018) · D = (1 − exp(−1.25 · max((1−m)b + mC, 0)))^(1/2.2) · full equation contract ↗
The JavaScript and separate Python implementations are compared pixel by pixel. The browser checks its GPU output against the same complete formula, including controls that deliberately flatten the folds.
The current receipt will appear here.
NACRE is direct pixel code. WebGL may execute the same arithmetic in parallel; the fallback path is the same written pixel contract. The palette, background, analytic lighting and display curve are included below — this is not a shell/fluid simulation, physical material model, photo fit or hidden raster.
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