In this work, I was trying to go for a similar aesthetic to the classic windows 95 screensavers, such as pipes. It was a requirement for this wallpaper to have some kind of ambient animation, so I changed the rendering code to allow the individual p5 canvases to update. While experimenting with things moving across the screen, I came to a point where I could represent the perlin noise that we were exploring through detail changing it’s representation at different levels. This was especially represented through my animations, where at close levels you can see the noise moving across the elements over time. It was at this point that I came to the realisation that I was very much going towards a vaporwave style, a style deep in nostalgia for the 90s and the experience of the internet back then.
From there, I decided to replace my palette with colors that are often found in this genre (vaporwave is also a music genre) and started playing around with using some of the text assets often seen in vaporwave music videos at the closest levels. If you look close enough, you should be able to find a caption that is spinning around