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Furnetics Unlimited Ltd. today announced that the Hephaestus Group’s Ocular Modernization Programme has completed final trials, resulting in a new palette of nine iris colors for our commercial Morphic templates offered under the Phenotype Renovations™ service line. Prior to this release, each template provided a single iris color appropriate for its inspirational organism design and genetic baseline. The new palette widens choice to nine chromatic 'bands', freely selectable at the point of design, with some natural variability anticipated in a narrow expressive range. These selections will be available on every newly-commissioned Morphic design beginning May 2024.

“The iris is a small surface and a conspicuous one. Until this release, the corporation delivered it under a single template-tied specification that a client and their intimates lived with, at conversational distance, for the rest of their lives. The nine bands are the ones the follow-up sustained without drift; there will in due course be more, and the client will, from this release forward, be permitted to choose.”

— Dr. Ines Marchetti-Roux, Chief Scientific Officer

What the palette covers

• Nine chromatic bands. Each band is a naturalistic iris chromatic family stable under the corporation’s standard indoor and outdoor illuminants.
• Stromal encoding; persistence through life. Colour is encoded in the anterior stromal melanocyte lineage rather than deposited as a topical pigment overlay. The band is retained through the natural cellular turnover of the stroma and requires no scheduled maintenance beyond the standard structured follow-up.
• No change to pupil geometry. Pupil form is governed by the parent template and is not affected by band selection. The pupil-geometry position of the four templates is described below.

The nine bands

Select a template to render each band with the pupil geometry native to that clade; hover any iris to observe the pupillary response.

• Amber Our original: A warm mid-saturation orange-brown
• Copper Redder, more luminous warm band.
• Hazel Mixed brown-and-green iris. Widest observable range.
• Umber Deep, low-saturation brown.
• Sable Near-black brown at low saturation; the darkest of the four warm bands.
• Verdant Green iris of mid saturation; our most popular Feline selection to date.
• Slate Cool neutral grey with a faint warm undertone; the most common cool color.
• Cerulean Saturated blue; strongest chromatic contrast against the four warm bands.
• Glacial Pale blue-grey of low saturation; the lightest of the nine.

On pupil geometry

Our pupil forms are intrinsically tied to the design of a genomic template, and we generally cannot offer shapes as an independent selectable at the point of design, given the confounding factors that impact ocular formation and stability. In practice this means:

• Morphic Feline. All pupils are designed to exhibit a vertical slit, matching the inspiration clade’s characteristic geometry. The slit renders the tapetal reflex characteristic of the clade and is supported across all nine bands. The felid slit dilates toward the round under low-illuminant conditions.
• Morphic Vulpine. A vertical elliptical pupil matches the source clade’s geometry. The elliptical form is delivered on all bands offered on the Vulpine template. Furnetics does not offer either a slit variant or a circular-pupil variant on the Vulpine template.
• Morphic Wolf. A circular pupil is the required design for this template. Wild canids of the reference clade do not natively express slit or elliptical pupils.
• Morphic Otter. Lutrine pupils are circular under all conditions in the source clade’s reference material.

Existing clients

For clients who have already received a Morphic design under the pre-2024 iris specification, we will make an iris-reformulation follow-up procedure available beginning in September 2024, on the corporation’s standard follow-up terms. Details will be sent by the Office of Client Services to affected clients directly over the spring; enquiries may be directed there in the interim. The procedure is elective in all cases; the pre-2024 iris specification remains fully supported for all ongoing maintenance needs.