"Skull", another name for the project is "The End of the Carnival".

Carnival is the name I give to the process that passes between the unknown silence before birth and after death, however difficult it may be. Carnival is not a place where everyone is absolutely happy. Maybe there are workers, maybe there are children brought by force and maybe scared in clowns. But it's colorful, loud, exciting, and not cheap either.

In my work, I describe the end of the carnival. If it was a good life, at least if you were loved, flowers will accompany you in your second silence.

How was it done?

First I created skulls from mid journey to use as templates. The words I used as prompt: "skull with flower swirl patterns :: black and white + black background, studio light". After editing the resulting pictures with Photoshop, I exported them as 128x128 px. Then the code part started.

An image is randomly selected. After the picture is centered on the canvas, each pixel of the canvas is scanned and the luminance value is obtained from the RGB values. The luminance value is divided by 255 to create the height value.

Then a random palette is chosen. Each palette has 4 different colors. Random points are selected on the canvas and a line begins to be drawn with one of the four colors. Its thickness, length and alpha value change according to the height value. Thus, the skull is formed.

Then, random points are taken on the canvas and flowers are created according to the randomly selected density ratio. Flowers are simple figures made of ellipses and lines. And again, the size and alpha amount are determined according to the height value it corresponds to.

After all is done, fxpreview(), the standard fxhash command, is run and the process is complete.

I would like to thank ogun, whom I consulted during the project, and bugdem, who encouraged me to produce work in fxhash.

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