Nature’s Vanity: Slideshow

Designed as an “infinitely changing” digital wall art, this work features beautifully crafted trees, leaves, rocks, grasses and mushrooms layered into a highly dimensional landscape.

The system renders elements to make a random “overview” of a dense, woodland scene. After applying some effects-filtering to the rendered layers, the planes are stacked to create a depth-of-field effect. From this overview, smaller insets are randomly selected, enlarged and displayed with a fade-transition to produce a slideshow of infinitely changing snapshots.

Users can download images of the overview in two sizes (1000x1000 or 2000x2000). Save images in color, posterized color and/or black-and-white (1000x1000). Save any frame or inset (1550x800) as well as a stand-alone rendering of the background trees (2000x2000).

All elements are computational/procedurally created with love using p5.js. Contains No GPT or AI assisted coding. Slideshow’s best viewing size is 1990x1280. Slideshow will automatically begin after saving any style of output.

Key Press Options
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Down Arrow - Save a full-sized color image.
Up Arrow - Save the current frame.
B or b - Save a full-sized black-and-white image.
P or p - Save a full-size posterized image.
T - Save the "Tree" rendering layer on black.
t - Save the "Tree" rendering layer on white.
Pressing Space or Any Save Option will start the slideshow