pico_facades #5

creator: Andrew E. Brereton
date: 2021-12-16
twitter: @aebrer
website: aebrer.xyz
medium: Pico-8, Lua, aebrer_engine codebase

This is a facade. This is movement through many dimensions simultaneously, crushed into this frame, together, and expressed as X, Y, and C position (position along a 4-bit color scale). Each frame is created by analyzing the contents of the previous frame. As these cascade events play out, I reflect pieces of the display through grids spanning the screen, and again reflect everything 4 ways. This irreversibly corrupts the relationship that existed between the visualized pattern, and the “real” pattern. Corrupts, but doesn’t destroy. The brain believes it sees the pattern... who can say for sure? Nothing can be confirmed beyond the wall of Entropy this process presents. This is what it means to be irreversible.

23 palettes -> 15 (6%), 4 (1.75%), 4 1-bit (0.75%)
mirror types -> double (95%), vert (2%), hor (2%), none (1%)
and other rare features!

creator: Andrew E. Brereton
date: 2021-12-16
twitter: @aebrer
website: aebrer.xyz
medium: Pico-8, Lua, aebrer_engine codebase

see generative token description for algorithm/concept explanation

intended viewing: Leave it running, live, on a square display. It will always follow the same sequence, but I doubt that it will ever repeat itself (other than a small moment here or there).