How the rabbits are painted

Nobody draws Thistledown's rabbits one by one. There are too many of them.

In the game, each rabbit is built from a small rig of shaded shapes for each pose, then a coat painter colours every pixel from the rabbit's genes: which ramp of the Hearth palette, where the broken spots fall, how the silver frosts in, where satin catches the light. That's how every combination of fourteen genes, every breed's shape and every pose can draw itself.

For this site the genetics and the painter were carried across to the web, line for line. Then a test: the game paints 400 of its own random rabbits, the site paints the same 400, and every name, every breed and every pixel must match. They do, all 400, to the last pixel. If the game ever changes, the test fails until the site catches up.

So when the Coat Lab shows you a kit, that's the kit the game would paint.