Bikini Bottom Things

A thing from down there. Hand-placed pixels, no AI upscale slop.

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Things found down there

One 64×64 source grid. Drawn left-half-only, mirrored on the 31.5 axis. 14 locked tones, warm brown ink instead of pure black.

Dome plus four tentacles, redrawn at any integer scale from the same routine. They drift on a stepped keyframe, not a smooth one.

Branching trunks placed on the dune silhouette so every fan sits on real sand height, not a guessed Y value.

Lock a palette first. 14 tones, checked for near-duplicates at a 15-per-channel minimum channel delta.
Hand-place every pixel in Python. No image model, no upscaler, no smoothing filter.
Draw the left half only, then mirror. Symmetry is verified in code, not by eye.
Dump the grid to ASCII and read it. The text grid is ground truth when a render looks fine but isn't.
Export at integer multiples only, nearest-neighbour. 64, 128, 256, 320, 512, 1024.
Fail the build on any violation. The QA gate runs 22 checks on the mascot and 10 on the scene.

64×64source grid

14locked tones

2044ink pixels

32/32QA checks pass