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
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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.
How it was made
Claude Opus 5.5
Source and credit
X · Oct 1, 2026 · 144 likes · 17k views · 14 comments
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Published instructions: https://x.com/dhruvalgolakiya/status/2105655524650004698
Look notesby Reference
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.
