Morphogenesis Test — Bread Face Formation (Walking Bread)

This short visual experiment captures an early Walking Bread morphogenesis study, where a bread surface becomes a facial topology.
The footage focuses on a loaf whose crust texture behaves like a living dermis. Subtle illumination reveals pore density, flour dust diffusion, and tonal transitions across baked gradients, generating the illusion of skin and bone volume beneath a bread epidermis.

From a technical standpoint, this test was likely used to observe optical elasticity and specular distortion in response to directional light, establishing a bridge between culinary texture and biological portraiture. The resulting facial features — nose, brow ridge, and eye contour — emerge from microtopological shifts rather than digital deformation, exemplifying the Walking Bread methodology of animating through organic material study rather than CG manipulation.

This footage marks one of the earliest moments where the bread matter itself served as both subject and animation frame, functioning as a biological drawing surface in motion.

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