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A PROCEDURAL OBJECT · No. 001
A flower cut from black glass and chrome, grown from a single equation. Nothing here was modelled. Scroll, and it opens.
I
Twenty-five petals sealed against the dark, wrapped in three whorls like a fist of vitreous stone. Every surface you see is one function — petal(u, v) — evaluated on a bare grid of vertices, sixty times a second, entirely on the GPU.
II
The outer whorl loosens first. Each petal carries its own delay and its own easing curve, so the flower never opens as a mechanism — it opens as a decision, edge by rippling edge, the cup flattening as the tip curls back.
III
Jewellery is lit, not painted. Around this flower hangs an invisible black studio — cold softboxes above, knife-edge strips at the sides, one warm champagne panel low — folded into an environment map so every petal drags long white streaks of light across its lacquer.
IV
At one hundred percent the geometry holds still and only the light keeps moving — a gold phyllotaxis burning in the throat, dust drifting through the beams. A flower that never grew, photographed in a room that never existed.
ANATOMY
Entirely procedural. No models, no textures, no AI assets — only mathematics and light.
THE ATELIER
A flower grown from mathematics can be regrown, endlessly. These three dials reach directly into the vertex shader — the same petal(u, v) running sixty times a second. Turn them slowly. Nothing snaps; every value is eased like a clasp closing.
OB·001 — B000 · W1.00 · L1.00
MATERIALS
The petals carry no texture and no paint. Their entire character is a conversation between one physical material and five invisible lamps.
One MeshPhysicalMaterial, tuned like a lacquered stone: a near-black metallic base under a wet coat of clear varnish. Because the base is so dark, everything you see is reflection — the material is effectively a mirror that has been dimmed.
Around the flower hangs a black photographic studio that is never rendered — five emissive planes folded into an environment map. Each lamp exists only as a streak of light on the lacquer. These switches are live: put a lamp out, and watch its streak leave the petals.
PROCESS
Four moves, in order. Everything downstream of the first line is consequence, not decoration.
A single parametric surface — silhouette, cup, curl, ripple — shaped by whorl index and a per-petal random.
petal(u, v) → vec3
The surface is sampled three times per vertex; two tangents crossed give a true normal for a mesh that never stops moving.
n = ∂u × ∂v
Five emissive planes — a black studio — folded into a prefiltered environment map the lacquer can drink from.
studio → PMREM
Scroll becomes one scalar, eased twice, and the whole object — petals, void, HUD — answers to it.
scroll → uBloom