Flowers shaders v4 — Pearls
Glossy spheres dropped into the iridescent tornado, the braid bulging or pinching around each one as it falls.
The pipe funnel from v2, with pearls falling down its axis the way a bead would drop through a vortex. Each pearl carries a deformation field, so the braid reacts locally as it passes: a positive deformation makes the pipes bulge outward to let it through, a negative one pinches them onto it as if it pulled them in.
At zero deformation the pearls thread the funnel without disturbing anything, which is the setting that shows how much of the effect is the reaction rather than the object.
