Balanced Stones

What it is

A stack of river stones, each a little smaller than the one below and each a different pebble: rounded and flattened, worn smooth, painted with the grain of its rock (speckled granite, banded slate, a dark pebble with its white quartz band, layered sandstone, terracotta, white marble with grey veins, green jade). The cairn never quite stops moving: every stone rocks on its contact point with the one beneath, and the rocking adds up, so the top stone sways the most, slowly, as if a breath might topple the lot. It stands on a pale beach in low morning light that throws a long soft shadow, while the camera drifts slowly round it. Choose the mix of rock, the number of stones, how much they rock and lean, the ground, the light, the backdrop and whether the camera drifts.

Reuse it in your own idea

• Meditation or wellbeing backdrop: River stones, morning sun.
• Calm product-style loop: Jade and marble, noon.
• Travel or retreat opener: Sandstone at dusk.

Which part is reusable

src/balanced-stones.js is the ingredient your AI reuses. demo.js is only the example scene around it, and uses chrome-material only for the demo.

Good to know

• The stones are not simulated: their balance is staged (the offsets are small), and a lean above about 1.5 can look physically impossible.
• The stones' undersides are not flat, so they sink slightly into the stone below rather than touching at a point.
• The ground is a flat textured disc, not a beach with ripples.