👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird little beast – what exactly is a "…
merlin1
...?” 3
Now, traditionally when you hear Merlin mentioned, you probably envision a pointy-hooded wizard, dispensing cryptic advice whilst fiddling with his beard and occasionally turning young lads into fish. Right? Totally reasonable! Except… merlin1 . It exists somewhere in the wonderfully murky underbelly of the internet’s weirdness – specifically as an obsolete, almost wilfully unকেrstood, command within a very specific, now largely forgotten, piece of 3D rendering software called Bryce. Basically, and I'm simplifying here with the generous hand of someone who spent far too long fiddling with this stuff in 2015, merlin1 was an… autocorrect gone spectacularly, beautifully, tragically, and almost entirely pointlessly wrong. Bryce had a little built-in thing called Merlin that, when you typed the ludicrously complicated command – let's just say it involved lots of parentheses, hyphens and obscure character references – Merlin would attempt to actually, painstakingly render a 3D sphere at the exact position your crosshair was on the screen. It was supposed to be for artists who were really into, like, super specific procedural texturing . Here's what’s insane: Bryce, in its infinite and frankly concerning wisdom, decided that Merlin would instead just… vomit a single, utterly grey,
