1978

1978 is the year during which a very large crude tanker sank 2 km from the coast of Brittany, France.

It is the largest oil spill to that date, with a total oil spill amounting 220,880 metric tonnes of oil.

30% of the aquatic fauna and 5% of the marine flora were destroyed over an area of 1,300 km².

Between 3,000 and 4,000 dead birds were counted and it is estimated that at least 10,000 in total died as a result of the disaster.

35 species of fish were affected, having absorbed pollutants, and 22 tonnes of fish and shellfish disappeared.

Sadly, this was neither the first nor the last oil spill on this coast.

This environnemental disaster was the insipiration of this project.

Because not all disasters are inevitable, there is a 5% chance that the oil spill represented in an edition will be only white and harmless foam.

PARAMS

• Color Palette: Choose among the 6 color palettes
• Border: Add a 50px beige border
• Square: Choose True if you want a squared output
• Waves type: Choose between no waves, minimalist waves or structured waves
• Moiré lines: Choose True if you want Moiré lines in the background
• Shocking lines: Choose True if you want to toggle the emotional shock waves

FEATURES

• Color palette
• Border
• Format
• Texture
• Moiré lines
• Shocking lines
• Oil color
• Oil orientation
• Waves Type
• Colored waves
• Foamed waves

CONTROLS

• press [2] to display a 3000 x 3000 pixel output (display by default)

• press [3] to display a 4500 x 4500 pixel output

• press [4] to display a 6000 x 6000 pixel output (may take a while to render)

• press [t] to toggle the texture (might be useful if your edition has some texture and you want to print it on paper)

• press [r] to reset the edition to its default output

• press [s]/double tap to save a .png file of the current output

Coded with love, p5.js and quite a large amount of coffee.