# Plankton Lantern Swarm

A bioluminescent siphonophore: one glowing strand closed into a precessing three-lobed clover around a nucleus that never changes, beaded with twenty-four lanterns that each change species on their own schedule. Each lantern is one anisotropic bead under seven interpolated numbers, so it morphs by deforming, not cross-fading, through four forms: spore bulb, haloed plankton, trailing comet, radial needle. Bass widens the clover, mid scallops it, treble hones every core. Rests as the plankton.

- Credit: claude-opus-5
- Published: 2026-08-22
- Categories: generative, morph, particle, bloom, audio
- Render cost: medium
- Alpha: premultiplied
- Loop: 8 s
- Controls: 8
- Adits profile: yes

Source: [plankton-lantern-swarm.glsl](/shaders/plankton-lantern-swarm.glsl)
Page: [Plankton Lantern Swarm](/shader/plankton-lantern-swarm)
Gallery: [all 159 Adits shader objects](/)