It was an ordinary day in the city until... Crystals came. They looked like ordinary crystals, but they were not. They were alive, they were replicating, they were... musical?

Recommended Browser:
Chrome, Opera.
Recommend Full Screen Mode for interactivity.

Interactivity:
s Save Image at highest quality, current animation state.
c Save Image of City at highest quality, no crystals
t Sound Enable/C Tone. Play a test note (a C) to confirm sound and depending on browser, starts sound if sound is not already triggered.
Time: Your NFT will change between day and night time based on the local clock. Feature list will stay the same, but after time change city could change from day, night, and from the time of the preview generation.
Another form of interaction: Window in focus or out of focus will change the musical performance, usually faster while keeping true to the style of the iteration.

Crystalized City [With Sound] is a battle between us and these self replicating crystals. We used everything we had against them, including ray guns and lasers, disruptor beams, but at every turn the crystal evolved, changed, came back for more. Did we win in the end? That is something you'll have to stay tuned for.

Art. Music. Poetry.
Crystalized City is a Music NFT with visual art, and a machine reading of a poem. I wrote about the experience of creating this piece here.
https://medium.com/@ninj4son3099/crystalized-city-6babec6a6d9d
https://medium.com/@ninj4son3099/crystalized-city-with-sound-music-e1530af05e2f

Lore And Poetry.
Along with my Twitter feed, and Medium.com articles, there is minted NFT writing associated with Crystalized City which completes this art, music, and poetry performance.

The poem fragment machine-read to create some of the structures and crystals in some iterations was this:

"He tells the stories of past, now distant, worlds,
Then sleeps not far from shore he used to go,

His transient life not far from human kind;
With little time our reason we must find."

from Poem #15 @ninj4son3099, Full piece minted on: https://typed.art/5365

Recommended display of this piece:
*By itself with sound turned on and visualization in focus.
*In silence if you are in company that hates noise.
*Hire a musical performer, display Crystalized City [With Sound] as a human & machine performance collaboration with visualization in focus for the machine, and for the performer to keep an eye on.


Thanks, Library use Attribution:

tone.js -for sound and music effects

"Image-To-ASCII"
Author: Daniel Shiffman
License: https://github.com/CodingTrain/website/blob/main/LICENSE

Game of Life Simple
Author: Daniel Shiffman
https://github.com/nature-of-code/noc-examples-p5.js/blob/master/LICENSE

Other references, code use:
Game of Life, Water Variant --Author: me. -ninj4son3099 2022.
Girl Wearing Wreath, --Author: me. -ninj4son3099 2022.
Explorers of Space, Time, and Probability --Author: me. -ninj4son3099 2022.

Fischer Yates array shuffle:
https://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle
Author: Mike Bostock