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A rounder, bigger Tancho
A koi judge told me my Tancho spots were too small and not round. They were round, on the texture. The texture wraps a head that's narrow and long, so on the fish they came out as little ovals. Now the spot is measured on the fish itself,
A thicker tail root
A koi judge on r/Koi said all my fish had skinny tail roots, the bit just before the tail. On a real koi it stays thick, because that's the muscle that swims.
Ginrin: from polka dots to a glint
Ginrin koi have scales that catch the light like glitter. The first version painted a white dot on most scales
Procedural koi: where it starts
We've started on a koi fishing game, and the koi came first. Every koi grows from a single number.
