The River is Drying Up [TTCS01T10] #14

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The tenth tweetcart for the Tweetcart Token Club (TTC)!

Snapshot will be taken on August 1st 2022 of the holders of the Tweetcart Token Club token: hicetnunc objkt #414400

Then, the access list/reserve will be updated and used so that each club member can mint 3 editions, for free.

find more info about my projects and roadmap at aebrer.xyz

(also you can input the source code and alter it yourself here: https://www.pico-8-edu.com/)

This piece was inspired by a recent trip to the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan, Italy. It was a really amazing museum, honestly inspiring a lot of pieces I plan to work on. In particular, there was a section dedicated to satellite images, and how they are being used to track eco-disasters like riverbeds drying up, or deforestation. Coming from a data science background, I found the visualizations (often false color) both beautiful, and informative. It is impossible to deny the reality that we are consuming this planet, and we need to stop if we wish to survive. More accurately, we need to make the very small number of people responsible stop, at whatever cost necessary.

This piece is created using rudimentary cellular automaton, only the top row of pixels is drawn to the screen manually. The riverbed is laid out, and then a third color is used to emulate the flow of the river. The flow is often not complete, showing as a patchy memory of a river, suggesting there was once much more water here. The secret Pico-8 palette is used to ensure the colors work.

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r=rnd
g=pget
s=r(-1)srand(s)cls()pal(0,r(16),1)pal(1,r(16)*-1,1)pal(2,r(16),1)line(0,0,128,0,1)z=r(99)line(z,0,z+r(32),0,2)::_::for i=0,200do
x=r(128)y=r(128)u=y+1v=g(x,y)b=g(x,u)
if v!=b and v!=0 then f=r(1)-.5
if(g(x+f,u)==0)circ(x+f,u,1,v)end
end
goto _

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CC0