"投華-touke-" refers to a blindfolded flower throwing initiation held over 1,200 years ago in Buddhism.　It involves throwing flowers onto a mandala adorned with various types of Buddha images, with the belief that one establishes a connection with the depicted deities where the flowers land. Blind turtle throwing a flower whose weight and shape are unstable experienced a sense of certainty and uncertainty, which felt them perceive the principles of Dependent Co-Arising (縁起-engi-) as the laws of the vast cosmos. And they felt guided by a transcendent power beyond human understanding (他力-tariki-).

In 805, the famous Japanese Buddhist monk Kukai conducted this ritual in China and subsequently introduced the concept of two mandalas to Japan. These mandalas, known as the Taizokai Mandala and Kongokai Mandala, marked the initiation of mandalas in Japan. The oldest extant Mandala of the Two Realms created under Kukai's guidance is designated as a national treasure, representing the pinnacle of Japanese art. It is considered a depiction of the cosmic worldview of Esoteric Buddhism on a two-dimensional plane.

In .fx(投華-touke-), the generation of noise function through hashing and a dual structure using two-variable trigonometric functions is employed. Constants selected through "random()" are also multiplied, creating complex and original patterns while preserving regularity.

The role of color is to convert 3D graphs into 2D, but it also features special mechanisms within a 21-color palette. Not all colors from the palette are used, and the order of colors affects the patterns.

Please try to experience how the patterns appear differently based on the color that your consciousness focuses on.



・Use the up and down arrows to change the number of grids.

・Press keys 1 to 4 , 5 to 8, 9(4000 x 4000), 0(8000 x 8000)to adjust the resolution settings.

・You can also save the image by pressing the "S" key.


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