# Peaks — Grid new colors

The teardrop lattice folded into symmetry: mirrored noise indexing makes cells equidistant from the centre match, fanning the spikes into a dark starburst.

Source: https://steevepommier.com/motion/peaks-grid-new-colors/
Section: Motion
Published: 2026-07-07
Tags: 3d, noise, iridescent

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The layered teardrop spikes of the grid version, rearranged into a mandala:
shading repeats across both axes, the spikes fan symmetrically about the
centre, and the palette sits in a dark, lacquered register instead of full
confetti.

The symmetry is done in the noise indexing. The spatial inputs are muted and
each cell's row and column index is folded through a triangular ramp — rising
to the grid's middle, falling back — before it reaches the Perlin lookup, so
cells at equal distance from the centre feed it the same value and receive the
same colour; the mirroring is that fold, not a composed layout. The series'
three-axis rocking is switched off by default, leaving a still figure built
purely from the depth stacking.