Strange Loop

creator: Andrew E. Brereton
date: 2021-11-30
twitter: @aebrer
website: aebrer.xyz
platform: Pico-8, Lua

This piece has three sources of inspiration:
A cardboard box, when the top flaps are all folded onto themselves in a special kind of loop, called a Strange Loop, where there is a direction that you can clearly progress in the loop, however, you somehow always end up back where you started.
“Bad Burn” by @alexthescott https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/bad-burn
The December 2021 Tweetcart for the Tweetcart Token Club. The tweetcart piece is itself a generator, and forms the core at the heart of this new piece. HEN objkt #562191

Controls:
Click/Tap the screen to cycle through alternate versions of your piece. Sometimes these differences are tiny, sometimes they are large.

If viewing the piece in its own browser window, press ctrl+9 to save a 16 second gif (of the last 16 seconds of the simulation), press ctrl+6 to save a png.

Source Code:
https://gist.github.com/aebrer/87435e1d77bb9caab30cf151b89ce2ee