# Ink spots and concentric rings

> A cream field fills with charcoal, muted teal, and brick-red ink-like spots. Irregular shapes surround concentric rings, creating a graphic, vintage-print interpretation of marbling.

- Kind: Video
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/prompt.txt
- Authorship: AI-made, per the source
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Generative; abstract, procedural, minimal, organic, retro-print
- Length and format: 35 sec, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Playback: a muted visual reference. The original soundtrack is available only at the source.
- Shared by @dhruvalgolakiya in X, Oct 1, 2026: https://x.com/dhruvalgolakiya/status/2105655521936347352
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this video

These are the creator's published instructions, unedited.

## Prompt

```text
Each ink drop pushes the ink already on the water outward using a closed-form formula that preserves area, and dragging a comb through it is a different exact transform (the paper is Jaffer et al., "Mathematical Marbling"). The video shows the whole process: drops landing, rings spreading, a comb dragging out a classic pattern, then the paper being laid down and peeled off with fibre texture and slight bleed. Every frame is a real marbling operation, not a filter. Built in Python + numpy (or WebGL) and rendered with ffmpeg. do it
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

Geometric, mathematical marbling with rounded ink-drop forms and ring patterns.

- Color: Muted warm gray background with deep charcoal, dark red, and teal shapes; occasional pale cream centers.
- Type: Flat, clean-edged graphic illustration with solid colors and no visible text.
- Framing: Rounded forms of varied sizes are distributed across the field, with a prominent concentric ring near the center in the denser designs.
- Structure: An abstract arrangement of circles, blobs, and nested rings, with irregular spacing and shapes cropped by the edges.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 5.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 9.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 13.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 17.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 21.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 25.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 29.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 33.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-ink-spots-and-concentric-rings-c38b3e/f9.webp

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/dhruvalgolakiya/status/2105655521936347352
- Original post: https://x.com/dhruvalgolakiya/status/2105655521936347352
- Discovery collection: https://data.openchamber.dev/opus-5-5-videos/v/dhruvalgolakiya-2105655521936347352