# Ribbons v10 — Blurry flower

A six-armed bloom sinks into its own afterimage: a low-res copy of every frame is blurred, faded and layered back under the next.

Source: https://steevepommier.com/motion/ribbons-v10-blurry-flower/
Section: Motion
Published: 2026-07-07
Tags: 2d, iridescent

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A six-armed bloom turns dark against a dense indigo starburst, more silhouette
than flower, with blue and yellow smudges glowing where the arms have just
been.

Every stamp is drawn twice: once sharp on the canvas and once into a buffer
held at a tenth of the resolution, which is blurred and faded a little each
frame before being layered back under the scene. That buffer is the smudge — a
decaying, chunky afterimage of the bloom's own history — while the arm count
and stamp sizes keep stepping through the family's preset cycles.