Breakfast Links

The concept is the contract

The piece was concepted first — a key-art sheet, a prop sheet and an overhead three-hole layout set the language: felt fairways with piped-crust curbs on a gingham cloth, butter yellows, toast browns, jam reds. Every named element in those sheets was then authored as a real Blender asset, and every audit round judged the live build against them.

Concept key art — the contract the piece is audited against

The same table live in the engine — hole 1's toast ramp and arch under the morning window light

Gray boxes before art

All three holes ran and were beaten as gray boxes before any art existed — including the automated drills the piece is audited by: a deliberate putt off the table edge (penalty + replace), a roll through the syrup pool and a hard escape putt, and a lip-out at too much speed. The autopilot re-aims per stroke from waypoints, so it self-corrects at any frame rate.

Blockout: hole 1 as gray boxes and a placeholder bump

The same course with its Blender food on

Baked in Blender, punished by a probe

Every prop is a Blender asset: fused voxel-remeshed food shapes with baked or procedural-detail materials, exported as glbs — and the fairway curbs are generated from the same wall constants the engine uses for its colliders, so the visual and the physics agree by construction. The honest row: the first leaning toast ramp presented its 26 cm crust edge to the 15 cm ball — a wall, not a ramp. A telemetry probe (ball position, speed, contacts per tick) found it in one run; the toast now sits sunk into the felt so its rolling face starts at the ground.

Three holes, three hazards

Hole 2: the pancake dogleg — the syrup pool on the direct line multiplies drag 12×

Hole 3: through the mug's real trimesh bore, between sugar-cube walls

Measured, honestly

The lab audits with Playwright on this host's software renderer (no GPU), so the frame-rate row below is a worst case — real hardware runs the compatibility renderer far faster.

Real engine features, earned