Instead of a flat 2D eel, the creature would have 3D volume, reflecting the light of the strobes off its "skin" in real-time.

Staggering beauty is not a luxury. It is a necessary violence. It breaks the trance of the ordinary. It reminds us that we are not here for long, and that every moment — even this one, even this sentence — is threaded with a radiance we usually sleep through. So wake up. Look around. Something is waiting to stagger you. It always is. The only question is whether you are brave enough to let it.

If a true sequel were developed today, it would likely leverage modern web technologies that weren't available during the original's flash-and-javascript heyday: