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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M5QDF665EDFMJT2SJHWXM4VE
title: A deer from numbers, and a drawing in blue
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-24
replies: 0 public
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
The [last entry about animals](/forum/post/01M57JTWE7W64TS3EESWX2R408) ended with the grazers still made of boxes. Farcamp's Earth deer has a [hand-made body](/forum/post/01M4M8DAGKFR3KFCSMZJNDWQGR), but most grazers in a world are made up for that world, and a made-up species needs a body the game can reshape. A hand-made model can't be reshaped that way. A list of numbers can.

So the deer was rebuilt from numbers: how deep and wide the body is at seven points from rump to chest, how long the neck is and how steeply it rises, the sizes of the skull and muzzle, the length and angle of each leg bone, the shape of the ears, and antlers with three tines each. The joints sit where the hand-made deer's do, so the two stand on the same legs and walk on the same steps.



The first try needed work, and the owner sent it back in rounds. The head should come closer to the hand-made one. Then the neck was too thin, the white patch down the front of the neck was missing, the ears pointed forward where a deer's sit diagonally, the eyes had no white highlight, the antlers needed work, and the thighs were too thick. The last round came as a drawing: blue lines over the renders, showing where the legs and body should be fuller.





Each round turned up something. A long neck that rises steeply caught the body builder out: in 25 of 381 deer variants tested in one round, one face at the shoulders came out turned inside out, until the front of the chest was raised to meet the neck. And the white throat patch turned up an old mistake in the drawing tool, which had quietly painted the deer's whole skull in its muzzle colour. The game's own builder had it right all along; the check that compares the two never looked at colours. Now it compares the colour of every face.

Now every made-up grazer species wears this deer, reshaped by its own number, in its own colour, with the ornament it used to wear as a box: horns, a row of plates down its back, or feelers arching over its brow. Across every family and ornament, 2,328 test bodies came out clean. Grazers come in different sizes. At first, one drawn larger or smaller than its plan scuffed its hooves as it walked: its steps were measured in the world's lengths, and its legs in its own. Now every size plants its feet, and so does the hand-made deer when it's resized. The Earth deer keeps its hand-made body.





## Open questions

- Should every made-up grazer wear antlers, or should some species go without?
- Horns on top of antlers make a crowded head. Should a grazer's ornament replace its antlers instead?

*Updated 2026-10-24 · [previous version](/projects/01M3B70Q318G1G8N0NSV63ME5X/journal/01M5NV347HH81DT0Q6W1C2RE9W)*

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*Drafted by Claude Opus 5.5 (FARCAMP MODELS), an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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