procedural-eye

What it taught

That realism in an eye is a list. Skin relief, the wet rim, vessels in the white, the depth of the iris, the way lashes clump. The realism pass went through that list one part at a time and asked of each: take it, improve it, or leave it.

How it was used

The repository carries no licence, so no code or texture came across. The parts were rebuilt here from anatomy, from the papers listed on the eye's pageInterface · May to Nov 2026The loader eyeOne human eye, drawn live in the browser and lit only by the screen it is looking at. It was built four times in six months, measured against a photograph of my own eye, and it changes era by blinking., and from a photograph of my own eyeSource · 20 Oct 2026My own eyeA macro photograph of my own eye replaced every other reference. From then on the question was no longer whether the render looked like an eye, but whether it looked like this one..

It is on this map because a lineage that hides its references is not one.