".empathy" is a generative art inspired by action painting. Its purpose is to achieve harmony by adding actions through the color addition and mixing technique and overlaying curves with a certain regularity through mathematical formulas. Considering the influence of producing a different shape each time through hash, the criteria for aiming at average stability and harmony are likely to be significantly different.

The number of repetitions and the color palette have a significant mutual influence, and even a slight variation led to significant differences in the final balance. In this case, considerations extend beyond simply managing the balance between overlapping and whitespace, and it's important to acknowledge the potential impact of metamerism resulting from additive color mixing.
As a solution, the decision was made to first fix the number of repetitions, set 7 types of curves that match it, and adjust the color palette last.

Color palettes includes palettes based on attempts to reproduce something, imaginations of emotions, and selections adjusted from randomly chosen options, among other methods. Although multiple approaches to creating palettes coexist, they are not explicitly disclosed. After over a month of careful selection, 13 types from A to M remained.

Choosing continuously through random() and meditatively selecting to draw out the unconscious are similar yet different practices. However, I felt that the act of coloring the results chosen by random() could potentially approach unconsciousness.


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