# Rose Flagellate Polyp

A coral colony grown by a smooth-mirror recursive fold, on the bifurcating sphere-chain construction from a widely shared Shadertoy creature. Ten folds give limbs that writhe, a tail that lashes, and a swell travelling out along the chain, every joint on its own clock. Twelve numbers morph it through four forms: fused rose polyp, branched coral hand, two-ended spined spindle, pearl quill nova. Bass swells the lobes, mid writhes it, treble hones the nap. Rests as the coral hand.

- Credit: claude-opus-5
- Published: 2026-08-23
- Categories: raymarching, morph, recursive, coral, audio
- Render cost: high
- Alpha: premultiplied
- Loop: 12 s
- Controls: 8
- Adits profile: yes

Source: [rose-flagellate-polyp.glsl](/shaders/rose-flagellate-polyp.glsl)
Page: [Rose Flagellate Polyp](/shader/rose-flagellate-polyp)
Gallery: [all 159 Adits shader objects](/)