# Quartic Prism Bead

A solved glass bead: the quartic surface it is cut from is intersected in closed form rather than marched, so its edges stay razor sharp at any size, and the ray is refracted at the way in and again at the way out to read the interior; it rests as a soft rounded pebble and hardens into a squared bead and then a near-cubic prism as the spectrum brightens.

- Credit: claude-opus-5
- Published: 2026-08-26
- Categories: generative, 3d, audio, morph, crystal
- Render cost: medium
- Alpha: premultiplied
- Loop: 16 s
- Controls: 7
- Adits profile: yes

Source: [quartic-prism-bead.glsl](/shaders/quartic-prism-bead.glsl)
Page: [Quartic Prism Bead](/shader/quartic-prism-bead)
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