The Genuary day 4 prompt is: “pixels”. I've been too busy to do something new in Flitter, so here's a short snippet of a video I made some time ago for the marvellous Bishi. Each "pixel" here is an animated butterfly/moth, they change colour on each flap of their wings. I actually did this in JavaScript with ThreeJS.
Day 4 #genuary2024 | Pixels
LowRes web camera feed. My silhouette is made of visible big pixels. A white pixel follows my nose. Different low-resolution values. #genuary4
Made with
ml5js & #p5js
I did this several months ago but it fits today's prompt so here we are. As you might deduce, there are only three colors drawn in this video. Admittedly there's not much artistry happening here but it was fun to play with the effects of combining colors in adjacent pixels.
#Genuary4 Pixels. I just couldn't resist the temptation. Optimizing it to render in real-time was a struggle, but I really like the end result. (I hope I'm your first of the year, please tell me I am)
Genuary 4th: Pixels
Seemed like a good opportunity to try myself at 1D-Cellular Automata!
The initial state is on the top, iteration steps downward. With time I continuously change my rule.
went with 90s nostalgia for lite-brites. could play around with this for rendering various grid animations like CAs, but right now it just randomly replaces a pixel on each iteration (color -> empty, empty -> random color).
probably the most interesting part was deciding what colorspace to use for the circular gradients. i went with HSL, but then that meant white had to be a special case
Using #genuary prompts to get more fluent on the #tic80 virtual retrocomputer. This started life as a 3D swirl of sine waves and ended flattened into many of these kaleidoscope mandalas. The loop's very simple, you can tweak some parameters but i like this one.
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