# Weathered Cairn Totem

A balanced cairn of eroded river stones, carried by the two things that actually sell physical presence: five-tap distance-field occlusion darkening every contact where two stones meet, and a real penumbra-traced soft shadow so each stone lays a soft edge on the one below. A rising waterline splits wet stone from dry. It rests as a squat cobble cairn of pale granite, stacks into a tall precarious spire of wet slate plates, then shatters into an angular obsidian shard pile.

- Credit: claude-opus-5
- Published: 2026-09-04
- Categories: generative, 3d, audio, morph, obsidian, stone
- Render cost: high
- Alpha: premultiplied
- Loop: 16 s
- Controls: 8
- Adits profile: yes

Source: [weathered-cairn-totem.glsl](/shaders/weathered-cairn-totem.glsl)
Page: [Weathered Cairn Totem](/shader/weathered-cairn-totem)
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