Descent #9: grey character-built forms with small pink, yellow and green accents against black.

01 / 04Character-built volumes and small colored accents in the descending scene.

Digital work

Descent #9

2024

Medium: Generative typographic animation
Materials & process: Custom JavaScript and WebGL; CP437 character rendering, shading and voxel-based structures; Ethereum ERC-721 NFT.
Dimensions: Variable digital display; square preview.
Edition: Unique output #9 in a series of 100 works.

Descent constructs an ongoing journey along a column using characters from code page 437, the extended character set associated with early IBM PCs. These signs become a material for depth, shading and structure.

Output #9 moves downward and uses the EGA 1 palette. The software allows changes to scale, shading and noise, and can export a PNG, the two-dimensional scene as text, or voxel data as a text file. These options expose the relationship between the visible image and the structures used to generate it.