ultrazool, 4 months ago

Quite like it at this point as well, it has a yoni thing going on:

x=i5
y=x-ij*m.sin(i/8)

Don't recommend scanning through the parameters, too much at once!

Another version of the same particle kaleidoscope mandala thing with different parameters in the x and y values. Another blue and orange swirl over a circular shape (added separately)with a yoni figure in the centre and some nice quite solid blocks above and below it

ultrazool, 4 months ago

Simplest piece for #genuary2

Iterate through the 24 bit colour space and write the same rgb values to each memory slot in the #tic80's 16-colour palette, once per frame. No drawing, no palette.

At 60 frames per second it will run for a few days! You could run it on a RasPi in a gallery with a label longer than the implementation

i=0k=256m=16320
function TIC()
for j=0,47,3 do
r=(i/k^2)//1%k
g=(i/k)//1%k
b=i%k
poke(m+j,r)
poke(m+j+1,g)
poke(m+j+2,b)
end
i=i+1
if i>k^3 then
i=0
end end

An animated gif of the tic-80 running the code described in the post. The editor mode shows for a few seconds, then the screen turns blue in preparation for spending the next 77 hours cycling through 24 bit colour space

ultrazool, 4 months ago

For #genuary3 "Droste effect", a #tic80 in a gallery displays itself displaying the code from #genuary2, recursively until we run out of pixels. Each copy of it looks further into the future of colour space

I learned to use the sprite editor and write to parts of the palette that the sprites aren't using

A pixelated display showing a TIC80 virtual console displaying an artwork with a label longer than its source code. The background slowly iterates through a 24 bit colour space (starts blue) On the screen of the tic80 is a miniaturised version of the display describe above, but showing colours further into the red area, and so on recursively until we run out of pixels

ultrazool, 4 months ago

For #genuary4 "Pixels" a generator for the traditional embroidery of Siwa Oasis

The symbols are hand drawn at 32 or 16 pixel squares in the TIC-80's "sprite sheet" and then picked for re-use with math.random; a couple of values in the palette map are also swapped at random. Generates one image per run, video shows hitting Ctrl-R over and over

Nothing needs to be algorithmically complex, swooshily involved, or technically impressive, as long as you like it, #genuary

https://tic80.com/play?cart=3688

A short pixelated video of repeatedly running the TIC80 program that generates a single screen of Siwan embroidery. Slightly wobbly hand drawn mystical symbols change at random on either a black or white background