ASCII atmosphere

Somewhere between a photograph and a signal.

su / studiesASCII ATMOSPHERE
01 — HazeLight becomes language.
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How the atmosphere is made↗

First, soften a landscape photograph and map its light and shadow to lavender, blue, and vermilion. Each monospaced character samples the brightness beneath it, so the texture follows the contours of the landscape.

The characters and photograph share one plane. Optional Drift moves that plane slowly without randomly refreshing the characters. The reference images are static; this movement is an extension made for the lab.

This is an independent visual study using different photographs, not the original artwork or source code. View implementation ↗