Screensavers

Each scene starts from a painted picture: a sky, a skyline, the face of a planet, open water. The aquarium adds its larger animals, each painted once. The page reads it and redraws it live, one glyph per cell, each cell sized by its light and tinted with its own colour. Everything that moves is written on the spot from a small set of rules. The still things are built once. Only the part that lives, the water, the traffic, the lanterns, the orbit, is redrawn each frame. A soft bloom sits on top so the bright cells glow into each other.

The method is old. People have drawn with characters since the terminal days, and plenty still do. The scenes are ours.